Theorizing Satire: Essays in Literary Criticism

ISBN-13: 9780312123024 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 228 str.

Brian A. Connery; Kirk Combe

Opis

In its eleven essays, Theorizing Satire reexplores old issues from new perspectives and opens up new dimensions of satire for critical analysis. Adapting to its object of study, this eclectic collection brings to bear upon classical, British, continental, and American satires the insights of New Criticism, philology, rhetorical analysis, anthropology, genre theory, semiotics, deconstruction, cultural criticism, and new historicism. The writers seek useful generalizations about satire, while at the same time offering close readings of individual authors working in a variety of cultural and temporal settings. Focusing on Lucilius to Joe Bob Briggs, the collection discusses, among other things, the verse of Horace, Pope, and Swift; novels from German Enlightenment culture; the operas of W. S. Gilbert; the lyrics of John Berryman; and the postmodernist British campus novel.

Spis treści

Introduction - Theorizing Satire: A Retrospective Introduction; B.Connery & K.Combe - PART 1: READING SATIRE - Vapid Voices and Sleazy Styles; J.Clark - The Difference Satire Makes: Reading Swift's Poems; F.Bogel - PART 2: GENESES AND GENEALOGIES - Satura from Quintilian to Joe Bob Briggs: A New Look at an Old Word; G.Sibley - The New Voice of Political Dissent: The Transition from Complaint to Satire; K.Combe - Satyrs and Satire in Augustan England; R.Nash - From Cheated Sight to False Light: Analogy in Swift and Churchill; J.Rowland - English Academic Satire from the Middle Ages to Postmodernism: Distinguishing the Comic from the Satiric; C.Gutleben - PART 3: SATIRE AND SOCIETY - Early Modern Complex Satire and the Satiric Novel: Genre and Cultural Transposition; C.Bohnert - The Culture Market, the Marriage Market, and the Exchange of Language: Swift and the Progress of Desire; E.Mackie - Economic Discourse in the Savoy Operas of W.S. Gilbert; L.V.Troost - Index

O autorze

Kirk Combe is Professor of English at Denison University, USA.