Anatomy of satire
Auteur :
Highet, Gilbert
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691619415
Date de publication :
8 mars 2015
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
472 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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 Ho