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Anatomy of Satire

Hardcover • 2016 • 1. edition

Anatomy of Satire

By Gilbert Highet

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Literary satire assumes three main forms: monologue, parody, and narrative (some fictional, some dramatic). This book by Gilbert Highet is a study of these forms, their meaning, their variation, their powers. Its scope is the range of satirical literature--from ancient Greece to modern America, from Aristophanes to Ionesco, from the parodists of Homer to the parodists of Eisenhower. It shows how satire originated in Greece and Rome, what its initial purposes and methods were, and how it revived ...Show more

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ISBN

9780691646312

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2016

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Anatomy of Satire

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Hardcover

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