Imperial Satire as Saturnalia

Paul Allen Miller

doi:10.1002/9781118301074.ch14

Imperial Satire as Saturnalia

Paul Allen Miller

Division of English Language & Literature

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	A Companion to Persius and Juvenal
Publisher	Wiley Blackwell
Pages	312-333
Number of pages	22
ISBN (Print)	9781405199650
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118301074.ch14
State	Published - 21 Sep 2012

Keywords

Ancient Saturnalia, one of the many ancestors of medieval carnivalesque tradition
Bakhtin's opus, to systematic rejection, approval, and rehabilitation
Bakhtin, central to a modern study of satire, with focus on the grotesque
Carnival as festive "decrowning" of authority in degradation, liberating plurality of voices
Imperial satire as Saturnalia, the irony of satire deployed as a notion of winter without end
Literary satire, not the Saturnalia, Persius/Juvenal's satire deploying imagery in ways
Rabelais and His World, shifting to role of mockery/bodily degradation
Roman satire founded on transgression, the self as autonomous/self-contained unity
Satire, a discourse that is, as Horace says, perceived as an assault
Saturnalia, utopian element and a moment of degradation, to promise of renewal

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