{"product_id":"archeologies-of-invective-9781433101649","title":"Archeologies of Invective","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on specimens of discourse where criticism assumes a flagrantly bucolic persona, \u003ci\u003eArcheologies of Invective\u003c\/i\u003e investigates hitherto little acknowledged contexts of irony, aggressivity, and vilification. After considering briefly Lucilius and Horace, the author evaluates such diverse figures as Poggio Bracciolini, Quevedo, Dunbar, Poe, and Mencken before proceeding to sustained discussion of Goethe's \u003ci\u003eItalian Journey\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWerther\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Invektiven. In terms of prime-time satiric virtuosity, Byron's \u003ci\u003eDon Juan\u003c\/i\u003e recycles pastoral animus, acting as a rogue-like mirror-text of the Schiller\/Goethe \u003ci\u003eXenien\u003c\/i\u003e of the late 1790s. Sidney's double sestina and Villon's Ballad of the Women of Paris are seen inaugurating the modern age, while, at the dawn of the avant-garde, Verlaine's Invectives sample Goethean and Villonesque attitude at a new level of recherché vulgarity. Low- and Highbrow, outlaw and Philistine resurface in Wyndham Lewis's Arcadian perspective on th","brand":"Peter Lang Publishing Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51039501648215,"sku":"9781433101649","price":63.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781433101649.jpg?v=1750943895","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/archeologies-of-invective-9781433101649","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}