Ranging from the classics to the present, Charles Knight provides illuminating readings of such satirists as Horace, Lucian, Jonson, Molière, Swift, Pope, Flaubert, Ostrovsky, Kundera, and Rushdie in this study of satire in plays, novels, newsprint and verse. His broad examination sheds new light on the nature and functions of satire as a mode of writing.
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"When, after many years of reading, thinking, teaching, and writing, a scholar leaves us a handsome record of what he has learned, we ought to be grateful. It is with such gratitude that we should welcome Charles A. Knight's The Literature of Satire." - Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Leon Guilhamet, CUNY
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The Literature of Satire is an accessible but sophisticated and wide-ranging study of satire from the classics to the present in plays, novels, and the press as well as in verse. Knight provides illuminating readings of such satirists familiar and unfamiliar as Horace, Lucian, Jonson, Molière, Swift, Pope, Flaubert, Ostrovsky, Kundera, and Rushdie. This broad-ranging examination sheds new light on the nature and functions of satire as a mode of writing. It will be of interest to scholars interested in literary theory as well as those specifically interested in satire.
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satiric frame, mediating speaker, satiric performance, satiric imitation, satiric speakers, satiric victim, shifting speaker, satiric text, satiric nature, satiric force, satiric characters, satiric targets, satiric fiction, fictive discourse, satiric forms, classical satire, heuristic structures, satiric attack, phatic function, first satire, natural discourse, historical particulars Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pale Fire, The Alchemist, Shen Teh, Gulliver's Travels, Don Juan, Die Fackel, Roderick Random, Old Comedy, The Englishman, Galy Gay, Sufiya Zinobia, Treaty of Utrecht, Fine Lady, Karl Kraus, Machado de Assis, Prose Works, Salman Rushdie, Braz Cubas, Neue Freie Presse, The Last Instructions, World War, Alvin Kernan, Herr Bertolt Brecht, John Bull, Milan Kundera New!
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Cerberus is the three-headed dog who guards the gates of Hell-the bane of visitors from Hercules to Robert Graves. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
satiric frame, mediating speaker, satiric performance, satiric imitation, satiric speakers, satiric victim, shifting speaker, satiric text, satiric nature, satiric force, satiric characters, satiric targets, satiric fiction, fictive discourse, satiric forms, classical satire, heuristic structures, satiric attack, phatic function, first satire, natural discourse, historical particulars Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Pale Fire, The Alchemist, Shen Teh, Gulliver's Travels, Don Juan, Die Fackel, Roderick Random, Old Comedy, The Englishman, Galy Gay, Sufiya Zinobia, Treaty of Utrecht, Fine Lady, Karl Kraus, Machado de Assis, Prose Works, Salman Rushdie, Braz Cubas, Neue Freie Presse, The Last Instructions, World War, Alvin Kernan, Herr Bertolt Brecht, John Bull, Milan Kundera New!
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- Don Juan (Penguin Classics) by Lord George Gordon Byron on 15 pages
- Essays on Roman Satire (Princeton Series of Collected Essays) by William S. Anderson on 4 pages
- The Ghost-seer (Hesperus Classics) by Friedrich von Schiller on 4 pages
- Persian Letters by Charles Louis Baron de Montesquieu in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Satire and the Transformation of Genre by Leon Guilhamet in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Mocking the Age: The Later Novels of Philip Roth (S U N Y Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture) by Elaine B. Safer in Back Matter
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