A Companion to Satire: Ancient and Modern (Repost)
Ruben Quintero, "A Companion to Satire: Ancient and Modern"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 1405119551 | PDF | pages: 624 | 18.3 mb
English | 2006 | ISBN: 1405119551 | PDF | pages: 624 | 18.3 mb
This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire fromits emergence in Western literature to the present.
- Tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic booksof the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the Englishtradition in satire to Michael Moore’s satirical movieFahrenheit 9/11.
- Highlights the important influence of the Bible in the literaryand cultural development of Western satire.
- Focused mainly on major classical and European influences onand works of English satire, but also explores the complex andfertile cultural cross-semination within the tradition of literarysatire.