Highet Anatomy of Satire

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4977-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 338 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

Literary satire assumes three main forms: monologue, parody, and narrative (some fictional, some dramatic). This book by Gilbert Highet is a study of these forms, their meaning, their variation, their powers. Its scope is the range of satirical literature—from ancient Greece to modern America, from Aristophanes to Ionesco, from the parodists of Homer to the parodists of Eisenhower. It shows how satire originated in Greece and Rome, what its initial purposes and methods were, and how it revived in the Renaissance, to continue into our own era.

Contents: Preface. I. Introduction. II. Diatribe. III. Parody. IV. The Distorting Mirror. V. Conclusion. Notes. Brief Bibliography. Index.

Originally published in 1962.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Highet, Gilbert

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Humor

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Preface, pg. vii
Contents, pg. ix
I Introduction, pg. 1
II Diatribe, pg. 24
III Parody, pg. 67
IV The distorting mirror, pg. 148
V Conclusion, pg. 231
Abbreviations, pg. 245
Notes, pg. 247
Brief bibliography, pg. 279
Index, pg. 283