C A J Littlewood
Biographic Data
| ID | 5634100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C A J Littlewood |
| GIVEN NAMES | C A J |
| FAMILY NAME | Littlewood |
| SIGNATURE | LITTLEWOOD C A J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hercules Oetaeus
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…
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…
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…
Hercules Oetaeus
Classical Antiquity Studies (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Law (4 works) · History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (2 works)