| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 608 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 46 |
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Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 46
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| Contents |
Understanding Satire / Ruben Quintero -- Part I: Biblical World to European Renaissance -- Ancient Biblical Satire / Thomas Jemielity -- Defining the Art of Blame: Classical Satire / Catherine Keane -- Medieval Satire / Laura Kendrick -- Rabelais and French Renaissance Satire / Edwin M. Duval -- Satire of the Spanish Golden Age / Alberta Gatti -- Verse Satire in the English Renaissance / Ejner J. Jensen -- Renaissance Prose Satire: Italy and England / W. Scott Blanchard -- Part II: Satire in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century France / Russell Goulbourne -- Dramatic Satire in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century / Jean I. Marsden -- Dryden and Restoration Satire / Dustin Griffin -- Johnathan Swift / Frank Boyle -- Pope and Augustan Verse Satire / Ruben Quintero -- Satiric Spirits of the Later Eighteenth Century: Johnson to Crabbe / James Engell -- Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Satiric Fiction / Joseph F. Bartolomeo -- Gendering Satire: Behn to Burney / Claudia Thomas Kairoff -- Pictorial Satire: From Emblem to Expression / Ronald Paulson -- Part III: Nineteenth Century to Contemporary -- The Hidden Agenda of Romantic Satire: Carlyle and Heine / Peter Brier -- Nineteenth-Century Satiric Poetry / Steven E. Jones -- Narrative Satire in the Nineteenth Century / Frank Palmeri -- American Satire: Beginnings Through Mark Twain / Linda A. Morris -- Twentieth-Century Fictional Satire / Valentine Cunningham -- Verse Satire in the Twentieth Century / Timothy Steele -- Satire in Modern and Contemporary Theater / Christopher J. Herr -- Irish Satire / José Lanters -- Part IV: The Practice of Satire -- Modes of Mockery: the Significance of Mock-Poetic Forms in the Enlightenment / Blanford Parker -- Irony and Satire / Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit -- Mock-Biblical Satire from Medieval to Modern / Michael F. Suarez -- The Satiric Character Sketch / David F. Venturo -- The Secret Life of Satire / Melinda Alliker Rabb |
| Summary |
This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire from its emergence in Western literature to the present. Tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic books of the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the English tradition in satire to Michael Moore's satirical movie Fahrenheit 9/11. Highlights the important influence of the Bible in the literary and cultural development of Western satire. Focused mainly on major classical and European influences on and works of English satire, but also explores the complex and fertile cultural cross-semination within the tradition of literary satire |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Satire -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Quintero, Ruben, 1949-
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Wiley InterScience (Online service)
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| ISBN |
0470996951 |
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1405119551 (hbk.) |
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1405168676 |
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1405171995 |
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9780470996959 |
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9781405119559 (hbk.) |
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9781405168670 |
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9781405171991 |
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