Anatomy of Satire
Title | Anatomy of Satire PDF eBook |
Author | Gilbert Highet |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2015-03-08 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 1400849772 |
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 editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover 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.
The Ends of Satire
Title | The Ends of Satire PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Bowles |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2015-02-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3110386844 |
How are we to think of satire if it has ceased to exist as a discrete genre? This study proposes a novel solution, understanding the satiric in the postwar era as a set of writing practices: figures of inversion, myth-making, and citation. By showing how writers and theorists alike deploy these devices in new contexts, this book reexamines the link between German postwar writing and the history of satire, and between literature and theory.
The Satiric Decade
Title | The Satiric Decade PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Wiese Forbes |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780739129456 |
"Where do democratic political practices originate? This issue has long concerned republics, but few historians have studied the process by which people learn the skills of rights-based government. In this illuminating history, Amy Wiese Forbes addresses these origins by analyzing how republicanism took shape through the political satire that flooded French newspapers, theaters, courtrooms, and even academic life in 1830. Forbes shows that satire was the chief source of the critical spirit of republicanism that erupted in the 1840s and sustained the Republic in the 1870s and argues against the notion that satire had no lasting political impact. This book will speak to historians of French politics, republicanism, popular culture, the July Monarchy, satire and political humor, class and gender formation, and legal history." --Book Jacket.
Postcolonial Satire
Title | Postcolonial Satire PDF eBook |
Author | Amy L. Friedman |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 223 |
Release | 2019-10-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1498571972 |
Postcolonial Satire: Indian Fiction and the Reimagining of Menippean Satire positions postcolonial South Asian satiric fiction in both the cutting-edge territory of political resistance writing and the ancient tradition of Menippean satire. Postcolonial Satire aims to disrupt the relationship between postcolonial literature and magic realism, by discussing the work of writers such as G. V. Desani, Aubrey Menen, Salman Rushdie, and Irwin Allan Sealy as one movement into the entirely subversive realm of satire. Indian fiction, and the fiction of other colonized cultures, can be re-construed through the lens of satire as openly critical of a broad spectrum of political and cultural issues. Employing the strengths of postcolonial theory and criticism, Postcolonial Satire expands upon the postcolonial works of these authors by analyzing them as satire, rather than magical realism with satirical elements.
Modern Satire
Title | Modern Satire PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Petro |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 176 |
Release | 2015-09-25 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3110821826 |
Political Humor
Title | Political Humor PDF eBook |
Author | Charles E. Schutz |
Publisher | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Pages | 364 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Humor |
ISBN | 9780838615362 |
Presents and seeks to explain the variety of humor in democratic politics. The humor ranges from the bawdy political comedies of Aristophanes in ancient Athens to the journalistic satires of our daily newspapers, and includes the jokes and comic invective of the people and their politicians.
The 2016 American Presidential Campaign and the News
Title | The 2016 American Presidential Campaign and the News PDF eBook |
Author | Jim A. Kuypers |
Publisher | Lexington Books |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2018-03-14 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1498565123 |
This book examines perhaps the most contentious election in modern US history—the 2016 United States presidential election. It is unique in its discussion of a wide range of issues affecting the news media coverage of the election, coming from an equally diverse range of intellectual perspectives including the rhetorical, social-scientific, communication studies, and media studies. With eleven chapters grounded in hard evidence and communication theory, The 2016 American Presidential Campaign and the News: Implications for American Democracy and the Republic examines significant topics such as fake news, media construction of Hillary Clinton’s and Donald Trump’s campaign personalities, media bias, visual meme depictions of the candidates, identity politics in the news, Trump’s Twitter use, entertainment news, and social media as news. These chapters individually and collectively provide a direct commentary on the implications of the 2016 campaign news coverage for the future of the American Republic and political communication in the media.