A Companion to Satire

Ancient and Modern
Herausgegeben von Quintero, Ruben

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Produktbeschreibung

Now available in paperback, this collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire from its emergence in Western literature to the present. This volume tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic books of the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the English tradition in satire to Michael Moore's satirical movie Fahrenheit 9/11.

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This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire from its emergence in Western literature to the present.

Tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic books of the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the English tradition in satire to Michael Moore's satirical movie Fahrenheit 9/11.

Highlights the important influence of the Bible in the literary and cultural development of Western satire.

Focused mainly on major classical and European influences on and works of English satire, but also explores the complex and fertile cultural cross-semination within the tradition of literary satire.

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1089g
• ISBN-13: 9780470657959
• ISBN-10: 0470657952
• Artikelnr.: 32732817

Autorenporträt

Ruben Quintero is Professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles, and teaches Restoration and eighteenth-century literature. His book Literate Culture: Pope's Rhetorical Art (1992) received a University of Delaware Press Manuscript Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction:
Understanding Satire (Ruben Quintero). Part I Biblical World to European
Renaissance. 1 Ancient Biblical Satire (Thomas Jemielity). 2 Defining the
Art of Blame: Classical Satire (Catherine Keane). 3 Medieval Satire (Laura
Kendrick). 4 Rabelais and French Renaissance Satire (Edwin M. Duval). 5
Satire of the Spanish Golden Age (Alberta Gatti). 6 Verse Satire in the
English Renaissance (Ejner J. Jensen). 7 Renaissance Prose Satire: Italy
and England (W. Scott Blanchard). Part II Restoration and
Eighteenth-century England and France. 8 Satire in Seventeenth- and
Eighteenth-century France (Russell Goulbourne). 9 Dramatic Satire in the
Restoration and Eighteenth Century (Jean I. Marsden). 10 Dryden and
Restoration Satire (Dustin Griffin). 11 Jonathan Swift (Frank Boyle). 12
Pope and Augustan Verse Satire (Ruben Quintero). 13 Satiric Spirits of the
Later Eighteenth Century: Johnson to Crabbe (James Engell). 14 Restoration
and Eighteenth-century Satiric Fiction (Joseph F. Bartolomeo). 15 Gendering
Satire: Behn to Burney (Claudia Thomas Kairoff). 16 Pictorial Satire: From
Emblem to Expression (Ronald Paulson). Part III Nineteenth Century to
Contemporary. 17 The Hidden Agenda of Romantic Satire: Carlyle and Heine
(Peter Brier). 18 Nineteenth-century Satiric Poetry (Steven E. Jones). 19
Narrative Satire in the Nineteenth Century (Frank Palmeri). 20 American
Satire: Beginnings through Mark Twain (Linda A. Morris). 21
Twentieth-century Fictional Satire (Valentine Cunningham). 22 Verse Satire
in the Twentieth Century (Timothy Steele). 23 Satire in Modern and
Contemporary Theater (Christopher J. Herr). 24 Irish Satire (Jose¿
Lanters). Part IV The Practice of Satire. 25 Modes of Mockery: The
Significance of Mock-poetic Forms in the Enlightenment (Blanford Parker).
26 Irony and Satire (Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit). 27 Mock-biblical Satire from
Medieval to Modern (Michael F. Suarez). 28 The Satiric Character Sketch
(David F. Venturo). 29 The Secret Life of Satire (Melinda Alliker Rabb).
Index.