Satire / editor, Robert C. Evans, Auburn University at Montgomery.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, Robert C., editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical insights

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Satire, English--History and criticism.

Satire, English.

Satire, American--History and criticism.

Satire, American.

Genre:

Satirical literature.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxiii, 359 pages) : illustrations, portrait.

Place of Publication:

Salem Press

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Examines the ways satire has appeared as a significant approach to literature from many different times and cultures. This volume analyzes the ways in which satire has been used in literature to expose and criticize different cultures and societies. Satire is one of the oldest, most common, and most important literary genres. Famous works of satire have been written from classical times to the present day. This volume not only explores various particular works of satire, including the classics Nineteen Eighty-Four and Gulliver's Travels but also examines Satire as satirical works and roles that satire has played in human culture." -- From publisher description.

Contents:

About this volume / Robert C. Evans

Toward a more inclusive theory of satire / Julia Hans

Shakespeare and early modern satire on drunks and drunkenness / Jonathan D. Wright

Ideas about satire : an overview / Robert C. Evans

Verses satirizing war : satirical war poetry from Marvell to Sassoon / Nicolas Tredell

Satire on the drunken body in Shakespeare, his predecessors, and contemporaries / Jonathan D. Wright

The satirist as troll in early modern England / Matthew Steggle

Jonson and satire : a survey of recent scholarship / Joyce Ahn

The alchemists in The alchemist / Sara van den Berg

Adapting the (un)familiar : Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels and the 1996 miniseries / Breanne Oryschak

Gulliver's travels : the 1996 televised mini-series (a survey of reviews) / Anna Orlofsky

The artistry of Jane Collier's An essay on the art of ingeniously tormenting / James Hirsh

Benjamin Franklin, an American satirist / Kevin J. Hayes

Epic satire? Byron's Don Juan / Nicolas Tredell

African American satire : previously uncollected newspaper columns / George S. Schuyler

Deconstructing icons of beauty : Dorothy Parker and the satiric grotesque / Julia Hans

The 1984 film of Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four : a survey of commentary / Robert C. Evans

Philip Larkin's satiric humor / Robert C. Evans

Additional works of satire

Bibliography

About the editor

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781642653847

1642653845

OCLC:

1237362510