The anatomy of satire / by Gilbert Highet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Highet, Gilbert, 1906-1978, author.

Series:

Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks ; 280.

Princeton/Bollingen paperbacks ; 280

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Satire--History and criticism.

Satire.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Edition:

First Princeton paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1972, [1962]

Summary:

Annotation 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 in the Renaissance, to continue into our own era. Contents: Preface. I. Introduction. II. Diatribe. III. Parody. IV. The Distorting Mirror. V. Conclusion. Notes. Brief Bibliography. Index. Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Satire is not the greatest form of literature but one of the most energetic and memorable forms

Diatribe

Parody

The distorting mirror.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (ACLS, viewed June 3, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Highet, Gilbert, 1906-1978. Anatomy of satire.

ISBN:

0691013063

9780691013060

0691060053

9780691060057

OCLC:

889235299

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license