This is an accessible but sophisticated study of satire from the classics to the present in verse, plays, novels, and the press. Knight provides illuminating readings of a wide range of writers and sheds new light on the nature and functions of...
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This is an accessible but sophisticated study of satire from the classics to the present in verse, plays, novels, and the press. Knight provides illuminating readings of a wide range of writers and sheds new light on the nature and functions of satire as a mode of writing
Includes bibliographical references (p. 302)-319) and index
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: the satiric frame of mind; representing democritus: the satiric frame of mind; the shape of this study; part i Satiric boundaries; chapter 1 Imagination's Cerberus; chapter 2 Satiric nationalism; chapter 3 Satiric exile; part ii Satiric forms; chapter 4 Satire as performance; chapter 5 Horatian performances; chapter 6 Satire and the novel; chapter 7 Satire and the press: the Battle of Dunkirk; chapter 8 White snow and black magic: Karl Kraus and the press; Conclusion; Notes
introduction: the satiric frame of mind1 imagination's cerberus; 2 satiric nationalism; 3 satiric exile; 4 satire as performance; 5 horatian performances; 6 satire and the novel; 7 satire and the press: the battle of dunkirk; 8 white snow and black magic: karl kraus and the press; Bibliography; PRIMARY SOURCES; SECONDARY SOURCES; Index
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