Author: Claude Julien RawsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
English Satire and the Satiric Tradition
Author: Claude Julien RawsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
English Satire and the Satiric Tradition
Author: Claude Julien RawsonPublisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631132721
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
English Satire and Satirists
Author: Hugh WalkerPublisher: London and Toronto : J.M. Dent & sons lts ; New York : E. P. Dutton & Company
ISBN:
Category : Satire, English
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Factions' Fictions
Author: Daniel EilonPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874133912
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
An understanding of the linguistic, political, and moral ramifications of Private Spirit (the parochialism and partiality typical of clubs, parties, and cabals) provides insights into the logic behind Swiftian polemic and satire. Swiftian satire, an essentially private joke offering exclusive satisfaction to an elite fraternity of insiders, is shown to be a creative rhetorical adaption of private spirit.
British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Amanda HinerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108945090
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This collection of innovative essays by leading scholars on eighteenth-century British women satirists showcases women's contributions to the satiric tradition and challenges the assumption that women were largely targets, rather than practitioners, of satire during the long eighteenth century. The essays examine women's satires across diverse genres, from the fable to the periodical, and attend to women writers' appropriation of a literary style and form often viewed as exclusively masculine. The introduction features a new theory of women's satire and proposes a framework for analyzing satiric techniques employed by women writers. Organized chronologically, the contributors' essays address a wide range of authors and explore the ways in which satiric writings by women engaged in contemporary cultural conversations, influencing assumptions about gender, sociability, politics, and literary practices. This inclusive yet tightly-focused collection formulates an innovative and provocative new feminist theory of satire.
The Cambridge Introduction to Satire
Author: Jonathan GreenbergPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107030188
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive overview for both beginning and advanced students of satiric forms from ancient poetry to contemporary digital media.
The Satiric Tradition in the Works of Seven English-Canadian Satirists
Author: Vincent D. SharmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canadian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The critical theories and terminology of Alvin Kernan ( Cankered Muse ; The Plot of Satire ) and Philip Pinkus ( Queen's Quarterly, 1963) provide excellent bases for a study of satire. Kernan's useful term "the satiric scene" refers to the specific images of the individual scenes or episodes of which satire is constructed. Pinkus's term "image of evil" refers to the over-all negations which concern the satirist. Determining the "image of evil" or the satiric scene requires an analysis of particular images used by the satirists. Pinkus has also established that in most important satires, evil dominates good, and that satire is the only genre to face this aspect of life. Both Pinkus and Kernan, who acknowledge their indebtedness to Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism, see that the essential characteristic of satire is the grotesqueness of its imagery. These critical theories provide the general framework for a close reading of the satiric plays and prose of Thomas McCulloch, T. C. Haliburton, Stephen Leacock, Robertson Davies, Earle Birney, Paul Hiebert, and Mordecai Richler, and show that the main images of evil in these satires are materialism, puritanism, and provincialism. The source of much of the imagery in these satires is Canadian towns and farms, which are metaphors for stagnation. Puritanism and materialism as norms are basic to McCulloch's Stepsure letters (1820) and provide a model for puritanism and materialism as images of evil in Leacock, Davies, and Birney ("Damnation of Vancouver"), particularly. Materialism is also fundamental to Richler's Atuk and Cocksure.Provincialism dominates much of Haliburton's four Sam Slick books; its source is chiefly in liberalism in politics and religion, in careless British colonial administration, and in the laziness of Nova Scotians. The source of provincialism in Leacock is Mariposans' lack of imagination and their self-importance, and, in Arcadian Adventures, Plutorians' materialism. In Birney, Hiebert, and Richler, provincialism arises from insensitivity, ignorance, and self-importance. Davies' provincials are such because they are victims of puritanism and materialism. In only Birney's "Damnation," Leacock's Sketches and Arcadian Adventures, Davies' "Overlaid" and "Hope Deferred," Richler's Atuk, and some of Haliburton, is a good level of satiric art achieved, chiefly because the satirists too frequently indulge in nonsense, repetition, pettiness, and stereotyped characterization.
Satire and Sentiment, 1660-1830
Author: Claude Julien RawsonPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300079166
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Claude Rawson examines the evolution of satirical writing in the period 1660-1830. In a sequence of linked chapters, some new and others revised substantially from earlier articles, he focuses on English writers from Rochester to Austen, both within a contemporaneous European context and as part of a tradition deriving from classical and sixteenth-century Humanist predecessors (Homer, Virgil, Erasmus, Montaigne) and leading to later writers like Flaubert and Yeats. Within the period 1660-1830 satire moved from an unusually dominant position to a relatively modest one, softened by the cult of 'sensibility' or 'sentiment'. The transition was connected with large social and cultural changes culminating in the French Revolution. Rawson's method is to concentrate on stress points, on evasions and internal contradictions, and on continuities and discontinuities with earlier and later periods and with literatures and modes of thought outside Britain.
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four
Author: Nathan WaddellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108841090
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four is aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates, and academics. Situating the novel in multiple frameworks, including contextual considerations and literary histories, the book asks new questions about the novel's significance in an age in which authoritarianism finds itself freshly empowered.
The Springs of Liberty
Author: Stewart JustmanPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810117105
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
"Justman considers satire not as a genre but as a potential available to different genres. He contrasts a line of English literature critical of journalism - writers such as Addison, Austen, and Trollope - with another less mannerly, represented by writers who exploded the stock formulas of which so much journalism is made, a line running from Swift through Dickens to Joyce and Orwell. Discussed too is the exploitation of the power of satire in political doctrine."--BOOK JACKET.