Medical analogy in Latin satire
Satire, Latin Diseases in literature Medicine in literature Literature and medicine sähkökirjat
Palgrave Macmillan
2009
EISBN 9780230244870
Introduction: Medicine for the Sick Soul.
Medical Meta-language: Renaissance Commentaries and Poetics on the Healing Nature of Satire.
Painfully Happy: Satirical Disease Eulogies and the Good Life.
Wonderfully Unaware: Sensory Disabilities, Contemplation and Consolation.
Outlook and Virtue: Morally Symptomatic Physical Peculiarities.
Satire as Therapy.
Appendix: The Anthologies Used in This Study.
Offering fresh readings of numerous Neo-Latin texts, Medical Analogy in Latin Satire provides an introduction to medical issues in the tradition of Latin satire. The book explores what functions physical diseases and peculiarities had in early modern satires and how satire was considered as a form of healing instruction.
'Medical Analogy in Latin Satire charts the long and varied history of the satiric commonplace that the pathology of moral and intellectual vice may be understood by the analogy of bodily disease, negotiating the maze of Humanist paradoxography and the Menippean world of mock encomia while unlocking the treasure house of various humanist anthologies, including Dornau's vast Amphitheatrum sapientiae Socraticae joco-seriae (1619). No student of satire, verse or Menippean, classical or Renaissance, can afford to ignore or fail to be instructed by Kivisto's industry and insight.' - Joel C. Relihan, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, USA.
Medical Meta-language: Renaissance Commentaries and Poetics on the Healing Nature of Satire.
Painfully Happy: Satirical Disease Eulogies and the Good Life.
Wonderfully Unaware: Sensory Disabilities, Contemplation and Consolation.
Outlook and Virtue: Morally Symptomatic Physical Peculiarities.
Satire as Therapy.
Appendix: The Anthologies Used in This Study.
Offering fresh readings of numerous Neo-Latin texts, Medical Analogy in Latin Satire provides an introduction to medical issues in the tradition of Latin satire. The book explores what functions physical diseases and peculiarities had in early modern satires and how satire was considered as a form of healing instruction.
'Medical Analogy in Latin Satire charts the long and varied history of the satiric commonplace that the pathology of moral and intellectual vice may be understood by the analogy of bodily disease, negotiating the maze of Humanist paradoxography and the Menippean world of mock encomia while unlocking the treasure house of various humanist anthologies, including Dornau's vast Amphitheatrum sapientiae Socraticae joco-seriae (1619). No student of satire, verse or Menippean, classical or Renaissance, can afford to ignore or fail to be instructed by Kivisto's industry and insight.' - Joel C. Relihan, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, USA.
