Companion to Satire.

Companion to Satire.

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 m...

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Main Author: Quintero, Ruben
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
Subjects:
Satire > History and criticism.
Wit and humor.
humor.
Satire
Wit and humor
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • A Companion to Satire; Contents; Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Understanding Satire; Chapter 1: Ancient Biblical Satire; Chapter 2: Defining the Art of Blame: Classical Satire; Chapter 3: Medieval Satire; Chapter 4: Rabelais and French Renaissance Satire; Chapter 5: Satire of the Spanish Golden Age; Chapter 6: Verse Satire in the English Renaissance; Chapter 7: Renaissance Prose Satire: Italy and England; Chapter 8: Satire in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century France; Chapter 9: Dramatic Satire in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century.

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