Anatomy Of Satire

Author : Gilbert Highet
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400849772
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anatomy of Satire written by Gilbert Highet and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary satire assumes three main forms: monologue, parody, and narrative (some fictional, some dramatic). This book by Gilbert Highet is a study of these forms, their meaning, their variation, their powers. Its scope is the range of satirical literature—from ancient Greece to modern America, from Aristophanes to Ionesco, from the parodists of Homer to the parodists of Eisenhower. It shows how satire originated in Greece and Rome, what its initial purposes and methods were, and how it revived in the Renaissance, to continue into our own era. Contents: Preface. I. Introduction. II. Diatribe. III. Parody. IV. The Distorting Mirror. V. Conclusion. Notes. Brief Bibliography. Index. Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Gilbert Highet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of Satire written by Gilbert Highet and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : G. Highet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Anatomy of Satire written by G. Highet and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. E. Vulliamy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780849555022
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of Satire written by C. E. Vulliamy and published by . This book was released on 1977-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Colwyn Edward Vulliamy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anatomy of Satire written by Colwyn Edward Vulliamy and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Marshall Bullitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Swift and the Anatomy of Satire written by John Marshall Bullitt and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan A. Cook
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Satirical Apocalypse written by Jonathan A. Cook and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1996-04-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This valuable new addition to Melville studies offers a ground-breaking interpretation of Melville's last published novel, one of the most complex texts in American literature and a work that has long been noted for the divergent critical views it has elicited. Reading the novel as a generic hybrid of narrative satire and apolyptic vision, Cook situates the novel in its implicit theological, historical, and biographical contexts: he examines the novel's relation to Melville's heterodox ideas of the deity, to the increasingly commercialized cultural milieu of antebellum America, and to Melville's own life and literary career. Uncovering a wealth of new data on the novel's satirical applications, including its covert use of Melville's friends and family for character models, Cook offers a compelling reading of The Confidence-Man - one that is sure to influence our future conception of its creator.

Author : David Musgrave
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443869201
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Grotesque Anatomies written by David Musgrave and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grotesque Anatomies is a study of Menippean satire in English since the Renaissance. It consists of revisionist, close readings of canonical works such as Eliot’s The Waste Land and Pope’s Dunciad among others, and investigates how identifying them as Menippean satires changes our understanding of them. The initial chapter offers a comprehensive account of the form from antiquity to the present day, identifying its bifurcated development in the shorter form (Seneca-Lucian-Julian) and the longer, more encylopedic form (Varro-Petronius-Boethius), and their subsequent fusion during the Renaissance. It also contains an account of the critical reception of the genre, with the term ‘Menippean satire’ first being used by Justus Lipsius in 1581. Finally, Menippean satire is described as a literary version of the grotesque, and a brief theory of the grotesque in the modern period as ‘radical heterogeneity’ is outlined. This is also the foundation of a new definition of Menippean satire, drawing on previous definitions by Frye, Bakhtin and Kirk, and revising them for the modern period. The following chapters examine iconic works as examples of Menippean satire and of the grotesque. Chapter 2 offers an overview of the nose in Menippean satire and comic literature generally, and reads Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children in this context. It also gives an account of metaphor as a ‘grotesque transformation’. Chapter 3 examines the figure of the stomach in Menippean satire and symposiastic literature, and reads Peacock’s Gryll Grange in this context. The link between the stomach as a figure of thinking in comic literature is the basis for an account of symbolic structuring as ‘grotesque association’. Chapter 4 is a close reading of the scatological imagery of Pope’s Dunciad, and how scatology generally tends towards a cyclical metaphysics. It also relates changes in print technology and copyright laws to the reticular scatological structure of the Dunciad. Chapter 5 argues for Eliot’s The Waste Land as a Menippean satire, focusing on the rhetorical figure of the enthymeme as a missing premise, as an example of ‘under-mindedness’ and as an ironic aspect of the fragmentation typical of late Romantic Menippean satires. Chapter 6 examines Urquhart’s eccentric The Jewel as a satire on the referential function of language, reading it in the context of projections for a universal language from this period. The final chapter identifies some key works by Derrida and Barthes as Menippean satires, noting the resurgence of the form in some postmodern and deconstructive writing.

Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780141187099
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Anatomy of Criticism written by Northrop Frye and published by . This book was released on 2002-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jonathan Greenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107030188
Total Pages : 335 pages
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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Satire written by Jonathan Greenberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive overview for both beginning and advanced students of satiric forms from ancient poetry to contemporary digital media.