Medical analogy in Latin satire / Sari Kivisto.

"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...

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Main Author: Kivistö, Sari
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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Physical Description:ix, 214 pages
Format: Book

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505 8 |a Machine generated contents note: Contents Acknowledgements 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 StudyNotes BibliographyIndex. 
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