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  1. The literature of satire
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: the satiric frame of mind; representing democritus: the satiric frame of mind; the shape of this study; chapter 1 Imagination's Cerberus; chapter 2 Satiric... more

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    Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: the satiric frame of mind; representing democritus: the satiric frame of mind; the shape of this study; chapter 1 Imagination's Cerberus; chapter 2 Satiric nationalism; chapter 3 Satiric exile; chapter 4 Satire as performance; chapter 5 Horatian performances; chapter 6 Satire and the novel; chapter 7 Satire and the press: the Battle of Dunkirk; chapter 8 White snow and black magic: Karl Kraus and the press; Conclusion; Notes; introduction: the satiric frame of mind; 1 imagination's cerberus. This is an accessible but sophisticated study of satire from the classics to the present in verse, plays, novels, and the press. Knight provides illuminating readings of a wide range of writers and sheds new light on the nature and functions of satire as a mode of writing

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0511185278; 051118610X; 9780511185274; 9780511187964; 9780511186103
    Subjects: Satire; TRAVEL ; Special Interest ; Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM ; General; Satire; Satires; Letterkunde; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Literature; Literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 327 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 302)-319) and index