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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 light on the nature and functions of satire as a mode of writing.

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"When, after many years of reading, thinking, teaching, and writing, a scholar leaves us a handsome record of what he has learned, we ought to be grateful. It is with such gratitude that we should welcome Charles A. Knight's The Literature of Satire." - Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Leon Guilhamet, CUNY

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; Introduction: the satiric frame of mind; Part I. Satiric Boundaries: 1. Imagination's Cerebrus; 2. Satiric nationalism; 3. Satiric exile; Part II. Satiric Forms: 4. Satire as performance; 5. Horatian performances; 6. Satire and the novel; 7. Literature and the press: the Battle of Dunkirk; 8. White snow and black magic: Karl Kraus and the press; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 11/26/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780521048705, 978-0521048705
      ISBN10: 0521048702
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 light on the nature and functions of satire as a mode of writing.

      Trade Review
      "When, after many years of reading, thinking, teaching, and writing, a scholar leaves us a handsome record of what he has learned, we ought to be grateful. It is with such gratitude that we should welcome Charles A. Knight's The Literature of Satire." - Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Leon Guilhamet, CUNY

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements; Introduction: the satiric frame of mind; Part I. Satiric Boundaries: 1. Imagination's Cerebrus; 2. Satiric nationalism; 3. Satiric exile; Part II. Satiric Forms: 4. Satire as performance; 5. Horatian performances; 6. Satire and the novel; 7. Literature and the press: the Battle of Dunkirk; 8. White snow and black magic: Karl Kraus and the press; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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