Cedric Littlewood
Biographic Data
| ID | 1428845 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cedric Littlewood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cedric |
| FAMILY NAME | Littlewood |
| SIGNATURE | LITTLEWOOD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2245-3169 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Post-Augustan Revisionism
Introduction: Angles on an Emperor
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero
The age of Nero has appealed to the popular imagination more than any other period of Roman history. This volume provides a lively and accessible guide to the various representations and interpretations of the Emperor Nero as well as to the rich literary, philosophical and artistic achievements of his eventful reign. The major achievements of the period in the fields of literature, governance, architecture and art are freshly described and analys…
Hercvles Fvrens and the Senecan Sublime
In the first throes of madness Seneca's Hercules declares, ‘I shall be borne aloft to the world's high spaces’ ( in alta mundi spatia sublimis ferar , HF 958). To Amphitryon these are the unspeakable thoughts of a mind that is hardly sane, but nevertheless great ( pectoris sani parum, / magni tamen , 974f.). For Gilbert Lawall, writing the first essay in the 1983 collection of Ramus essays on Senecan tragedy, the fundamental question of the play …
Theater and Theatricality in Seneca’s World
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Poetry and Friendship in Juvenal's Twelfth Satire
Generic oppositions create an interplay of different voices in Satires 12, particularly between the genus tenue, variously nuanced, and the big genres of epic and tragedy. The integrity of the poetic idylls of a lyric Horace is contrasted with the more compromised sanctuary of Juvenal, struggling to accommodate his luxurious friends or, less kindly, practising friendship in a world in which everything is negotiable. Beyond an ahistorical oppositi…
Images of a Flawed Technical Genesis
This chapter is concerned with images of poetic inspiration, particularly with ‘poet surrogates’. Atreus, with Fury as his muse, offers a Bloomian image of artistic creation as deliberately criminal, swerving defiantly away its literary heritage. But these poetics of revolutionary excess, a hallmark of ‘Silver Latin’, compete in Seneca's corpus with images of a flawed sublimity. Through allusion to (among other texts) the myth of Phaethon in Ovid…
Meta-Theatre and Self-Consciousness
This chapter discusses representations of audiences in Senecan tragedy, in particular the reactions of these internal audiences to scenes of violence and horror. Pain and a sadistic, voyeuristic pleasure compete as models of spectatorship. There are case studies of Thyestes, Agamemnon, and Troades. In Thyestes and Agamemnon, narratives of horror (delivered by the Messenger and by Cassandra) trace a similar path from fearful paralysis to active pl…
Phaedra: Intertextuality and Innocence
The Broken World
This chapter discusses the ambiguities of self-representation in a world of moral and physical disorder. Particularly in the bare paradoxes exchanged as sententiae it becomes difficult to distinguish the polar opposites of vice and virtue, the inhuman alienation of the maniac from the autonomy of the Stoic sage. Seneca's distinctively artificial style — his presentation of reality and fate as mere constructions — poses distinctive moral challenge…
Self-representation and Illusion in Senecan Tragedy
This book argues that in both literary and ethical aspects, Seneca's tragedies are products of the Neronian age and of a Latin literary tradition. Their relationship with Attic tragedy is mediated, through allusion, by non-dramatic Augustan literature. It is a feature of Neronian literature to engage closely, sometimes destructively, with the texts and ideology of Augustus' golden age. Phaedra finds a rhetoric of desire in elegiac poetry while Hi…
Integer Ipse? Self-Knowledge and Self-Representation in Persius Satires 4
The subject of both dialogue and satire is the foundation of criticism: Quofretus (3) does Alcibiades administer the state? Both works urge Alcibiades to disavow the superficial criticism of the crowd and the superficial beauty of his own body and to direct his gaze inward: only here is true criticism and true self-knowledge to be found. This contrast between public and private criticism is a familiar topic in Persius' satires.2 For Persius, as f…
Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal
This survey of Roman satire locates its most salient possibilities and effects at the center of every Roman reader's cultural and political self-understanding. This book describes the genre's numerous shifts in focus and tone over several centuries (from Lucilius to Juvenal) not as mere 'generic adjustments' that reflect the personal preferences of its authors, but as separate chapters in a special, generically encoded story of Rome's lost, and m…
The Knotted Thong: Structures of Mimesis in Persius
Knotted Thong fills a long-standing gap in studies of Persius, the famous and famously difficult Roman satirist. The body of work on has for years depended on a few traditional and highly specialized lines of approach, and therefore modern readers have found it difficult to come to close grips with this poet, whose works not only have substantial intrinsic value but also long-standing influence on the community of letters.D. M. Hooley has now ree…
Self-representation and Illusion in Senecan Tragedy
This book argues that in both literary and ethical aspects, Seneca's tragedies are products of the Neronian age and of a Latin literary tradition. Their relationship with Attic tragedy is mediated, through allusion, by non-dramatic Augustan literature. It is a feature of Neronian literature to engage closely, sometimes destructively, with the texts and ideology of Augustus' golden age. Phaedra finds a rhetoric of desire in elegiac poetry while Hi…
Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal
This survey of Roman satire locates its most salient possibilities and effects at the center of every Roman reader's cultural and political self-understanding. This book describes the genre's numerous shifts in focus and tone over several centuries (from Lucilius to Juvenal) not as mere 'generic adjustments' that reflect the personal preferences of its authors, but as separate chapters in a special, generically encoded story of Rome's lost, and m…
Integer Ipse? Self-Knowledge and Self-Representation in Persius Satires 4
The subject of both dialogue and satire is the foundation of criticism: Quofretus (3) does Alcibiades administer the state? Both works urge Alcibiades to disavow the superficial criticism of the crowd and the superficial beauty of his own body and to direct his gaze inward: only here is true criticism and true self-knowledge to be found. This contrast between public and private criticism is a familiar topic in Persius' satires.2 For Persius, as f…
The Knotted Thong: Structures of Mimesis in Persius
Knotted Thong fills a long-standing gap in studies of Persius, the famous and famously difficult Roman satirist. The body of work on has for years depended on a few traditional and highly specialized lines of approach, and therefore modern readers have found it difficult to come to close grips with this poet, whose works not only have substantial intrinsic value but also long-standing influence on the community of letters.D. M. Hooley has now ree…
Poetry and Friendship in Juvenal's Twelfth Satire
Generic oppositions create an interplay of different voices in Satires 12, particularly between the genus tenue, variously nuanced, and the big genres of epic and tragedy. The integrity of the poetic idylls of a lyric Horace is contrasted with the more compromised sanctuary of Juvenal, struggling to accommodate his luxurious friends or, less kindly, practising friendship in a world in which everything is negotiable. Beyond an ahistorical oppositi…
The Knotted Thong: Structures of Mimesis in Persius
Knotted Thong fills a long-standing gap in studies of Persius, the famous and famously difficult Roman satirist. The body of work on has for years depended on a few traditional and highly specialized lines of approach, and therefore modern readers have found it difficult to come to close grips with this poet, whose works not only have substantial intrinsic value but also long-standing influence on the community of letters.D. M. Hooley has now ree…
Satires of Rome: Threatening Poses from Lucilius to Juvenal
This survey of Roman satire locates its most salient possibilities and effects at the center of every Roman reader's cultural and political self-understanding. This book describes the genre's numerous shifts in focus and tone over several centuries (from Lucilius to Juvenal) not as mere 'generic adjustments' that reflect the personal preferences of its authors, but as separate chapters in a special, generically encoded story of Rome's lost, and m…
Integer Ipse? Self-Knowledge and Self-Representation in Persius Satires 4
The subject of both dialogue and satire is the foundation of criticism: Quofretus (3) does Alcibiades administer the state? Both works urge Alcibiades to disavow the superficial criticism of the crowd and the superficial beauty of his own body and to direct his gaze inward: only here is true criticism and true self-knowledge to be found. This contrast between public and private criticism is a familiar topic in Persius' satires.2 For Persius, as f…
Images of a Flawed Technical Genesis
This chapter is concerned with images of poetic inspiration, particularly with ‘poet surrogates’. Atreus, with Fury as his muse, offers a Bloomian image of artistic creation as deliberately criminal, swerving defiantly away its literary heritage. But these poetics of revolutionary excess, a hallmark of ‘Silver Latin’, compete in Seneca's corpus with images of a flawed sublimity. Through allusion to (among other texts) the myth of Phaethon in Ovid…
Meta-Theatre and Self-Consciousness
This chapter discusses representations of audiences in Senecan tragedy, in particular the reactions of these internal audiences to scenes of violence and horror. Pain and a sadistic, voyeuristic pleasure compete as models of spectatorship. There are case studies of Thyestes, Agamemnon, and Troades. In Thyestes and Agamemnon, narratives of horror (delivered by the Messenger and by Cassandra) trace a similar path from fearful paralysis to active pl…
Phaedra: Intertextuality and Innocence
The Broken World
This chapter discusses the ambiguities of self-representation in a world of moral and physical disorder. Particularly in the bare paradoxes exchanged as sententiae it becomes difficult to distinguish the polar opposites of vice and virtue, the inhuman alienation of the maniac from the autonomy of the Stoic sage. Seneca's distinctively artificial style — his presentation of reality and fate as mere constructions — poses distinctive moral challenge…
Self-representation and Illusion in Senecan Tragedy
This book argues that in both literary and ethical aspects, Seneca's tragedies are products of the Neronian age and of a Latin literary tradition. Their relationship with Attic tragedy is mediated, through allusion, by non-dramatic Augustan literature. It is a feature of Neronian literature to engage closely, sometimes destructively, with the texts and ideology of Augustus' golden age. Phaedra finds a rhetoric of desire in elegiac poetry while Hi…
Poetry and Friendship in Juvenal's Twelfth Satire
Generic oppositions create an interplay of different voices in Satires 12, particularly between the genus tenue, variously nuanced, and the big genres of epic and tragedy. The integrity of the poetic idylls of a lyric Horace is contrasted with the more compromised sanctuary of Juvenal, struggling to accommodate his luxurious friends or, less kindly, practising friendship in a world in which everything is negotiable. Beyond an ahistorical oppositi…
Theater and Theatricality in Seneca’s World
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Post-Augustan Revisionism
Introduction: Angles on an Emperor
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Nero
The age of Nero has appealed to the popular imagination more than any other period of Roman history. This volume provides a lively and accessible guide to the various representations and interpretations of the Emperor Nero as well as to the rich literary, philosophical and artistic achievements of his eventful reign. The major achievements of the period in the fields of literature, governance, architecture and art are freshly described and analys…
Hercvles Fvrens and the Senecan Sublime
In the first throes of madness Seneca's Hercules declares, ‘I shall be borne aloft to the world's high spaces’ ( in alta mundi spatia sublimis ferar , HF 958). To Amphitryon these are the unspeakable thoughts of a mind that is hardly sane, but nevertheless great ( pectoris sani parum, / magni tamen , 974f.). For Gilbert Lawall, writing the first essay in the 1983 collection of Ramus essays on Senecan tragedy, the fundamental question of the play …
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