UID:
almahu_9948196849402882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xvi, 608 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
9780470996959
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0470996951
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9781405171991
,
1405171995
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9781405168670
,
1405168676
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9781405119559
,
1405119551
Serie:
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 46
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Understanding Satire /
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Biblical World to European Renaissance --
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Ancient Biblical Satire /
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Defining the Art of Blame: Classical Satire /
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Medieval Satire /
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Rabelais and French Renaissance Satire /
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Satire of the Spanish Golden Age /
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Verse Satire in the English Renaissance /
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Renaissance Prose Satire: Italy and England /
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Satire in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century France /
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Dramatic Satire in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century /
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Dryden and Restoration Satire /
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Johnathan Swift /
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Pope and Augustan Verse Satire /
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Satiric Spirits of the Later Eighteenth Century: Johnson to Crabbe /
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Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Satiric Fiction /
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Gendering Satire: Behn to Burney /
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Pictorial Satire: From Emblem to Expression /
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Nineteenth Century to Contemporary --
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The Hidden Agenda of Romantic Satire: Carlyle and Heine /
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Nineteenth-Century Satiric Poetry /
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Narrative Satire in the Nineteenth Century /
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American Satire: Beginnings Through Mark Twain /
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Twentieth-Century Fictional Satire /
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Verse Satire in the Twentieth Century /
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Satire in Modern and Contemporary Theater /
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Irish Satire /
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The Practice of Satire --
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Modes of Mockery: the Significance of Mock-Poetic Forms in the Enlightenment /
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Irony and Satire /
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Mock-Biblical Satire from Medieval to Modern /
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The Satiric Character Sketch /
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The Secret Life of Satire /
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Companion to satire. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2007 ISBN 1405119551
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781405119559
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
;
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
DOI:
10.1002/9780470996959
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470996959
