Maria Plaza
Biographic Data
| ID | 3874878 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Plaza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Plaza |
| SIGNATURE | PLAZA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Junior Research Fellow, Gothenburg University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Making Mockery
Reviewed by: Making Mockery: The Poetics of Ancient Satire Maria Plaza Ralph M. Rosen. Making Mockery: The Poetics of Ancient Satire. Classical Culture and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 294. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-19-530996-6. Rosen boldly claims that here we will see, for the first time, a sustained attempt to conceptualize all mocking ancient poets as participants in the same literary paradigm, transcending "the boundari…
Humour Directed at the Persona
This chapter on persona-oriented humour argues that while it is a valuable insight that the persona is not identical with the author, the gap created between author and persona by humorous undercutting of the latter’s authority must not be exaggerated. By analysing the play of authority, sympathy, and distance enacted around the satiric persona, it is shown that the satirist has an aesthetic interest in a fierce struggle between persona and butt,…
Epilogue
In Juvenal's fifteenth satire satiric humour reaches its limits. The kernel of J. 15 is a narrative about how two feuding Egyptian villages engage in a fierce battle which ends with one tribe catching a man from the other village, and eating him in their fury. Before coming to its end, Juvenalian humour flashes a final burst of grotesque funniness, a rush of what modern jargon would call ‘sick humour’, in the detailed description of a man torn to…
Object-Oriented Humour
This chapter on object-oriented humour argues that a favourite device of Roman satire is to use the structure of ‘mockery from below’ for various attacks. It analyses how metaphors ‘heightening’ the target or ‘lowering’ the speaker are employed by Horace and Juvenal when the target is not actually someone or something in a high position; for Persius, this is achieved by metaphorical ‘swelling’/‘piercing’. In effect, the satiric persona often chea…
Non-Aligned Humour
This chapter on ‘non-aligned’ humour (so called because it is not tied to either object or subject) excludes the Stoic satires of Persius, but argues that for Horace and Juvenal, non-aligned humour is an important characteristic of their work, adding a dimension of merry openness. Through non-aligned humour, Horace’s and Juvenal’s satires again tease, and occasionally cheat the reader, as the ‘irrelevant’ jokes and irony sometimes try to win the …
The Function of Humour in Roman Verse Satire
Our image of Roman satire has developed from that of a static, moralizing genre to a deliberately complex form, but our approach to the humour intrinsic to satire has not developed accordingly. This book offers a comprehensive new analysis of humour in the writings of Horace, Persius, and Juvenal, with an excursus to Lucilius. The main thesis is that far from being an external means of sweetening the moral lesson, humour lies at the heart of Roma…
"Laughter and Derision in Petronius' "Satyrica
The Function of Humour in Roman Verse Satire
Our image of Roman satire has developed from that of a static, moralizing genre to a deliberately complex form, but our approach to the humour intrinsic to satire has not developed accordingly. This book offers a comprehensive new analysis of humour in the writings of Horace, Persius, and Juvenal, with an excursus to Lucilius. The main thesis is that far from being an external means of sweetening the moral lesson, humour lies at the heart of Roma…
"Laughter and Derision in Petronius' "Satyrica
Humour Directed at the Persona
This chapter on persona-oriented humour argues that while it is a valuable insight that the persona is not identical with the author, the gap created between author and persona by humorous undercutting of the latter’s authority must not be exaggerated. By analysing the play of authority, sympathy, and distance enacted around the satiric persona, it is shown that the satirist has an aesthetic interest in a fierce struggle between persona and butt,…
Epilogue
In Juvenal's fifteenth satire satiric humour reaches its limits. The kernel of J. 15 is a narrative about how two feuding Egyptian villages engage in a fierce battle which ends with one tribe catching a man from the other village, and eating him in their fury. Before coming to its end, Juvenalian humour flashes a final burst of grotesque funniness, a rush of what modern jargon would call ‘sick humour’, in the detailed description of a man torn to…
Object-Oriented Humour
This chapter on object-oriented humour argues that a favourite device of Roman satire is to use the structure of ‘mockery from below’ for various attacks. It analyses how metaphors ‘heightening’ the target or ‘lowering’ the speaker are employed by Horace and Juvenal when the target is not actually someone or something in a high position; for Persius, this is achieved by metaphorical ‘swelling’/‘piercing’. In effect, the satiric persona often chea…
Non-Aligned Humour
This chapter on ‘non-aligned’ humour (so called because it is not tied to either object or subject) excludes the Stoic satires of Persius, but argues that for Horace and Juvenal, non-aligned humour is an important characteristic of their work, adding a dimension of merry openness. Through non-aligned humour, Horace’s and Juvenal’s satires again tease, and occasionally cheat the reader, as the ‘irrelevant’ jokes and irony sometimes try to win the …
The Function of Humour in Roman Verse Satire
Our image of Roman satire has developed from that of a static, moralizing genre to a deliberately complex form, but our approach to the humour intrinsic to satire has not developed accordingly. This book offers a comprehensive new analysis of humour in the writings of Horace, Persius, and Juvenal, with an excursus to Lucilius. The main thesis is that far from being an external means of sweetening the moral lesson, humour lies at the heart of Roma…
Making Mockery
Reviewed by: Making Mockery: The Poetics of Ancient Satire Maria Plaza Ralph M. Rosen. Making Mockery: The Poetics of Ancient Satire. Classical Culture and Society. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xv, 294. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-19-530996-6. Rosen boldly claims that here we will see, for the first time, a sustained attempt to conceptualize all mocking ancient poets as participants in the same literary paradigm, transcending "the boundari…
Art (6 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods (5 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Irony (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works)