Medical Analogy in Latin Satire

By S Kivisto and S. Kivistö

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 Study Notes Bibliography Index

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349309990
• ISBN13: 9781349309993
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"