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The literature of satire / Charles A. Knight.

By: Knight, Charles AMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. Description: ix, 327 p. : 23 cmISBN: 0521834600 (hardback); 0521048702Subject(s): Satire -- History and criticismDDC classification: 809.7 LOC classification: PN6149.S2 | K48 2004Online resources: Table of contents | WorldCat details | Ebook Fulltex
Contents:
TOC 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.
Summary: This is an accessible but sophisticated study of satire from the classics to the present.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 302)-319) and index.

TOC 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.

This is an accessible but sophisticated study of satire from the classics to the present.

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