Ebook: The Anatomy of Satire
Author: Gilbert Highet
- Genre: Literature
- Tags: Satire -- History and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM/Humor, Satire, General Interest, Literatur Rhetorik Literaturwissenschaft, various
- Year: 1962
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Edition: 2015
- Language: English
- pdf
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 Read more...