Author: John Clement BallPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415965934
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Sex and Satiric Tragedy in Early Modern England
Author: Gabriel A. RiegerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351900943
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Drawing upon recent scholarship in Renaissance studies regarding notions of the body, political, physical and social, this study examines how the satiric tragedians of the English Renaissance employ the languages of sex - including sexual slander, titillation, insinuation and obscenity - in the service of satiric aggression. There is a close association between the genre of satire and sexually descriptive language in the period, author Gabriel Rieger argues, particularly in the ways in which both the genre and the languages embody systems of oppositions. In exploring the various purposes which sexually descriptive language serves for the satiric tragedian, Rieger reviews a broad range of texts, ancient, Renaissance, and contemporary, by satiric tragedians, moralists, medical writers and critics, paying particular attention to the works of William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton and John Webster
The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770
Author: Ashley MarshallPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421408171
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
An exhaustive study of satire in the long eighteenth century. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice In The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770, Ashley Marshall explores how satire was conceived and understood by writers and readers of the period. Her account is based on a reading of some 3,000 works, ranging from one-page squibs to novels. The objective is not to recuperate particular minor works but to recover the satiric milieu—to resituate the masterpieces amid the hundreds of other works alongside which they were originally written and read. The long eighteenth century is generally hailed as the great age of satire, and as such, it has received much critical attention. However, scholars have focused almost exclusively on a small number of canonical works, such as Gulliver's Travels and The Dunciad, and have not looked for continuity over time. Marshall revises the standard account of eighteenth-century satire, revealing it to be messy, confused, and discontinuous, exhibiting radical and rapid changes over time. The true history of satire in its great age is not a history at all. Rather, it is a collection of episodic little histories.
The Ends of Satire
Author: Daniel BowlesPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110359537
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
How are we to think of satire if it has ceased to exist as a discrete genre? This study proposes a novel solution, understanding the satiric in the postwar era as a set of writing practices: figures of inversion, myth-making, and citation. By showing how writers and theorists alike deploy these devices in new contexts, this book reexamines the link between German postwar writing and the history of satire, and between literature and theory.
Author: Eva Marie CampbellA Companion to Satire
Author: Ruben QuinteroPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405171995
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire fromits emergence in Western literature to the present. Tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic booksof the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the Englishtradition in satire to Michael Moore’s satirical movieFahrenheit 9/11. Highlights the important influence of the Bible in the literaryand cultural development of Western satire. Focused mainly on major classical and European influences onand works of English satire, but also explores the complex andfertile cultural cross-semination within the tradition of literarysatire.
Author: Decimus Junius JUVENALIS
Author: Library of CongressJuvenal and the Satiric Emotions
Author: Catherine KeanePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199981892
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
This text reveals Juvenal's creative exploitation of Greco-Roman ideas about the emotions in this new analysis of his Satires and their arrangement.
Author: Hermann Fischer