| Description |
301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Juvenal on traffic ; Pope on the Dark Age ; Voltaire on optimism ; Lucilius & Horace ; Bion of Borysthenes ; Lucilius, Horace, Persius, Juvenal, Claudian ; Lucian, Julian the Apostate ; Byron, Hugo, Campbell, and contemporaries -- Erasmus, Browning ; Swift's Modest proposal -- Housman's Fragment of a Greek tragedy ; Burns's Holy Willie's prayer ; Pegler's My day ; Standard speech to the United Nations ; Abraham a Sancta Clara ; Labouchere's God save the queen ; Wordsworth & self-parody -- Battle of frogs and mice ; Byron's Vision of judgment ; Titian's Laocoon ; Musical parodies --Montgomery's double ; Captain of Kopenick ; Dreadnought hoax ; Rabelais' prophecies ; Swift & Partridge ; Hyacinthe Maglanovitch ; Spectra ; Romains' The pals -- Lucilius and Juvenal ; Battles of animals ; Boileau's Lectern ; Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel & Mac Flecknoe ; Pope's Rape of the lock & Dunciad ; Swift, De Callieres, Fielding ; Joyce's Ulysees ; Tassoni's Rape of the bucket ; Scarron's Vergil travestied ; Voltaire's Maid of Orleans -- Petronius's Satyrica ; Rabelais & Ariosto ; Cervantes' Don Quixote ; Butler's Hudibras -- Aristophanes ; Phlyakes ; Fielding's Tom Thumb the Great ; Shelley's Oedipus Tyrannus ; Beerbohm's Savonarola Brown ; Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida ; Gay's Beggar's opera ; Gilbert & Sullivan ; Myra Buttle's Sweeniad -- Parini's Day -- Aristophanes & the young Vergil ; Chaucer's Sir Thopas ; Swift ; The Anti-Jacobin ; Rejected addresses ; Calverley & Swinburne ; Wilson's Omelet of A. MacLeish -- Plato's Menexenus ; Letters of obscure men ; The Menippean satire ; Knox's Essays in satire ; Jensen's Gettysburg address in Eisenhowese -- Fielding's Joseph Andrews ; Harte's Condensed novels ; Beerbohm's Christmas garland ; Fadiman on Wolfe ; De Vries on Faulkner -- Swift's Gulliver's travels ; Jean de Hauteville's Man of many sorrows ; Butler's Erewhon ; Maurois' Articoles ; More & Rabelais -- Menippus ; Ariosto & Milton ; Rabelais' epistemon ; Seneca's Pumpkinification of Claudius ; Julian's Drinking-party ; Quevedo's Visions -- Voltaire's Micromegas -- Bellamy & Wells ; Orwell's Nineteen eighty-four ; Huxley's Ape and essence ; Huxley's Brave new world ; Mayakovsky's Bedbug -- Raspe's Munchausen ; Carroll's Alice ; Lucian's True history -- Reynard the fox ; Nigel's Fools' mirror ; The prisoner's exit ; Apuleius' Metamorphoses ; Swift's Houyhnhnms ; France's Penguin Island ; Orwell's Animal farm ; Aristophanes' Birds and wasps ; Capeks' Insect comedy ; Ionesco's Rhinoceros ; Peacock's Sir Oran Haut-ton ; Collier's His monkey wife -- Flaubert's Bouvard and Pecuchet ; Waugh's Decline and fall ; Lewis, Peacock, Huxley ; McCarthy & Jarrell -- Dickens's Pickwick papers ; Waugh's Scott-King's modern Europe ; Cervantes' Don Quixote ; Grimmelshausen's Simplicissimus ; Byron's Don Juan ; Horace's journey to Brindisi ; Linklater's Juan in America ; Waugh's Black mischief & The loved one ; Montesquieu's Persian letters -- Till Owlglass ; Romains' Dr. Knock ; Rabelais' Panurge ; Petronius's Satyrica -- Gibbon's Decline and fall of the Roman Empire ; Strachey's Eminent Victorians ; Le Sage's Gil Blas ; Morier's Hajji Baba of Ispahan ; Fielding's Jonathan Wild the great -- Petronius's Banquet of Trimalchio ; Regnier & Boileau ; Dickens, Waugh, Proust -- Brant's Ship of fools ; Boccaccio's Courbash ; Lucretius, Boileau, Swift on women ; Hogarth's Gin Lane. |
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Satire -- History and criticism.
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