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A Companion to Satire: Ancient and Modern |
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: Adobe PDF
Content Language: English
ISBN: 9781405171991
Print ISBN: 9781405119559
Size: 4,928 KB
Pages: 616
Publication Date: 2008-04-15
Category:
Literary Criticism > Books & Reading
Territorial Restrictions:
Available Worldwide
Digital Rights:
Copy Count: 5
Copy Interval (Days): 365
Print Count: Unlimited
Print Interval (Days): Unlimited
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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.
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