John Sitter

Arguments of Augustan Wit

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Produktbeschreibung

John Sitter makes a challenging claim for the importance of wit in the writings of Dryden, Rochester, Prior, Berkeley, Gay, Pope and Swift.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 339g
• ISBN-13: 9780521044554
• ISBN-10: 0521044553
• Artikelnr.: 23104987

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The character progress as an Augustan phenomenon
2. About wit: Locke, Jakobson, and Augustan ideas
3. On the matter of wit
4. Gravity, abstraction, and crackpot materialism
5. That satire is art, only more so
Conclusion
Index.