Out of Circulation? An Essay on Exchange in Persius' Satires
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11880289 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martha Malamud (University at Buffalo, State University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-64 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ramus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-671X • E-ISSN: 2202-932X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0048671x00002204 |
| OpenAlex | W99355971 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 10 |
Twenty five years ago in the infant Ramus , J.P. Sullivan wrote ‘In Defence of Persius’. Not many scholars writing today would think of choosing that title: having contemplated the indefensible aspects of Classical literature, most are far too wary to leap to the defence of any classical author, let alone a writer of Satire, a genre distinguished by its combination of crassness and cruelty, its insistence on turning its audience into victimisers. Sullivan's defence rests partly on his perceptive appreciation of Persius' unusually complex and intense poetic style. Twenty years later, also in Ramus , John Henderson took a different approach to the same author: his (ironical?) strategy was not to defend the poet, but to banish him and his style entirely: Persius then: not the minor figure caught in Latin Literature's toils, Silver Immaturity, that obscure, difficult poetaster and also-ran satirist. Rather, a central and key textual trace of the cultural formation of imperial subjectivity.... Away, then, Persius, from the margins of literariness and into the centre of Roman imperial cultural formation... The formulation of the object of study as a textual trace—no longer an obscure poet, but a central and key textual trace—transforms the reading of an unpopular minor Latin author (surely a self-indulgent exercise, after all; not the sort of thing our educational system ought to be funding) into an exemplary study of the cultural formation of imperial subjectivity. Persius would have enjoyed sharing this secret with his ditch
Art · Epistemology · Humanities · Key (lock · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential · Minor (academic · Object (grammar · Poetry · Reading (process · Style (visual arts · Subjectivity · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Augustinian Studies and Theology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0.25 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2025 (28) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |