Ranging from the classics to the present, Charles Knight provides illuminating readings of such satirists as Horace, Lucian, Jonson, Moliè re, 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.
Ranging from the classics to the present, Charles Knight provides illuminating readings of such satirists as Horace, Lucian, Jonson, Moliè re, 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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Charles Knight recently retired as a Professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston, of which he was one of the founding faculty, and where he still continues to teach. He is a specialist in eighteenth-century British literature; he has written Joseph Addison and Richard Steele: A Reference Guide (1994) and numerous articles for journals such as Modern Language Review, Philological Quarterly, Modern Philology, Comparative Literature and Eighteenth-Century Studies.
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Acknowledgements Introduction: the satiric frame of mind Part I. Satiric Boundaries: 1. Imagination's Cerebrus 2. Satiric nationalism 3. Satiric exile Part II. Satiric Forms: 4. Satire as performance 5. Horatian performances 6. Satire and the novel 7. Literature and the press: the Battle of Dunkirk 8. White snow and black magic: Karl Kraus and the press Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
Acknowledgements Introduction: the satiric frame of mind Part I. Satiric Boundaries: 1. Imagination's Cerebrus 2. Satiric nationalism 3. Satiric exile Part II. Satiric Forms: 4. Satire as performance 5. Horatian performances 6. Satire and the novel 7. Literature and the press: the Battle of Dunkirk 8. White snow and black magic: Karl Kraus and the press Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
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