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Availability:In StockContributor:Jonathan GreenbergSeries:Cambridge Introductions to Literature (Hardcover)Publish date:2019-02-07Pages:332
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781107682054ISBN-10:1107682053UPC:9781107682054Book Category:Literary Criticism, HumorBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, FormBook Topic:ParodiesSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC5EW39MZE
The Cambridge Introduction to Satire
In satire, evil, folly, and weakness are held up to ridicule - to the delight of some and the outrage of others. Satire may claim the higher purpose of social critique or moral reform, or it may simply revel in its own transgressive laughter. It exposes frauds, debunks ideals, binds communities, starts arguments, and evokes unconscious fantasies. It has been a central literary genre since ancient...
Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature (Hardcover)
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781107682054ISBN-10:1107682053UPC:9781107682054Book Category:Literary Criticism, HumorBook Subcategory:English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, FormBook Topic:ParodiesSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SC5EW39MZE
Greenberg, Jonathan: - Jonathan Greenberg is Professor of English and Department Chair at Montclair State University, New Jersey, and was awarded the Andrew J. Kappel Prize for Literary Criticism in 2007. He is the author of Modernism, Satire and the Novel (Cambridge, 2011), a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. With Nathan Waddell he co-edited Brave New World: Contexts and Legacies (2016). He has...
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