Quintero A Companion to Satire

Ancient and Modern
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-7199-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 624 Seiten, E-Book

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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Quintero, Ruben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Illustrations viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiv
Introduction: Understanding Satire 1
Ruben Quintero
Part I Biblical World to European Renaissance13
1 Ancient Biblical Satire 15
Thomas Jemielity
2 Defining the Art of Blame: Classical Satire 31
Catherine Keane
3 Medieval Satire 52
Laura Kendrick
4 Rabelais and French Renaissance Satire 70
Edwin M. Duval
5 Satire of the Spanish Golden Age 86
Alberta Gatti
6 Verse Satire in the English Renaissance 101
Ejner J. Jensen
7 Renaissance Prose Satire: Italy and England 118
W. Scott Blanchard
Part II Restoration and Eighteenth-century England andFrance 137
8 Satire in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century France 139
Russell Goulbourne
9 Dramatic Satire in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century161
Jean I. Marsden
10 Dryden and Restoration Satire 176
Dustin Griffin
11 Jonathan Swift 196
Frank Boyle
12 Pope and Augustan Verse Satire 212
Ruben Quintero
13 Satiric Spirits of the Later Eighteenth Century: Johnson toCrabbe 233
James Engell
14 Restoration and Eighteenth-century Satiric Fiction 257
Joseph F. Bartolomeo
15 Gendering Satire: Behn to Burney 276
Claudia Thomas Kairoff
16 Pictorial Satire: From Emblem to Expression 293
Ronald Paulson
Part III Nineteenth Century to Contemporary325
17 The Hidden Agenda of Romantic Satire: Carlyle and Heine327
Peter Brier
18 Nineteenth-century Satiric Poetry 340
Steven E. Jones
19 Narrative Satire in the Nineteenth Century 361
Frank Palmeri
20 American Satire: Beginnings through Mark Twain 377
Linda A. Morris
21 Twentieth-century Fictional Satire 400
Valentine Cunningham
22 Verse Satire in the Twentieth Century 434
Timothy Steele
23 Satire in Modern and Contemporary Theater 460
Christopher J. Herr
24 Irish Satire 476
Jose Lanters
Part IV The Practice of Satire 493
25 Modes of Mockery: The Significance of Mock-poetic Forms inthe Enlightenment 495
Blanford Parker
26 Irony and Satire 510
Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit
27 Mock-biblical Satire from Medieval to Modern 525
Michael F. Suarez
28 The Satiric Character Sketch 550
David F. Venturo
29 The Secret Life of Satire 568
Melinda Alliker Rabb
Index 585

Über Autor(innen)

Ruben Quintero is Professor of English at California State University, Los Angeles, and teaches Restoration and eighteenth-century literature. His book Literate Culture: Pope's Rhetorical Art (1992) received a University of Delaware Press Manuscript Award.