| Description |
182 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Series |
Wadsworth guides to literary study
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| Contents |
Preface -- I. Theory -- Satire / Richard Garnett ; from Satires / Horace ; from First satire / Juvenal ; from Every man in his humour & Every man out of his humour / Ben Jonson ; from Virgidemiarum / Joseph Hall ; from An essay upon satire / Duke of Buckingham, John Dryden, et al. ; from The intelligencer / Jonathan Swift ; from Love of fame, the universal passion / Edward Young ; from Joseph Andrews & Tom Jones / Henry Fielding ; from The idea of comedy and the uses of the comic spirit / George Meredith ; Nature of satire / Northrop Frye ; from A Treasury of satire / Edgar Johnson ; from The cankered muse : satire of the English Renaissance / Alvin Kernan ; from A glossary of literary terms / Meyer H. Abrams -- II. Practice -- Town mouse and the country mouse / Aesop, Horace, La Fontaine, James Thurber ; The nun's priest's tale / Geoffrey Chaucer ; Love is the best doctor / Moliere ; Modest proposal / Jonathan Swift ; Rape of the lock / Alexander Pope ; Memnon the philosopher / Voltaire ; from The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Samuel Langhorne Clemens ; Gentleman from San Francisco / Ivan Bunin ; from Brave new world / Aldous Huxley ; Common women / Philip Wylie. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography. |
| Subject |
Satire.
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| Added Author |
Stephens, George D.
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