Literature of Satire
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. In it Charles Knight analyses the rhetorical problems created by satire's complex relations to its community, and examines how it exploits the genres it borrows. He argues that satire derives from an awareness of the differences between appearance, ideas and discourse. Knight provides illuminating readings of such satirists familiar and unfamiliar as Horace, Lucian, Jonson, Moliere, Swift, Pope, Byron, Flaubert, Ostrovsky, Kundera, and Rushdie. This broad-ranging exam…
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- ISBN: 978-0-511-18980-7
- EAN: 9780511189807
- Produktnummer: 13809438
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'632 KB
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