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In satire, human or individual vices, follies, abuses, or shortcomings are held up to censure by means of ridicule, derision, burlesque, irony, or other methods, ideally with the intent to bring about improvement. Although satire is usually meant to be funny, the purpose of satire is not primarily humor in itself so much as an attack on something of which the author strongly disapproves, using the weapon of wit.
Professor Highet manages to cover an astonishing amount of ground in less than 300 pages. Few who can rank as satirists seem to be left out. He ranges from early classical times, on which, as might be expected from so noted a classical scholar, he is especially illuminating, to Mr. Evelyn Waugh and Miss Mary McCarthy.
As history this is a most valuable reference book ... a book to be read with pleasure, to ponder at leisure, and if not to leave a clear idea of the morphology of satire, at least to send us back with more alert eyes to our own favorite satirists.
Table of Contents
These are the Three Main Patterns of Satire
Monologue, Parody, and Narrative
How to Determine whether a work is satire or not
DIATRIBE - Examples of
PARODY - Parody and Mimicry, of form and content,
The Hoax as Satire
Types of Literary Parody - Epic, Romance, Drama, Didactic Poetry, Lyric, Prose (NF), Prose (F)
THE DISTORTING MIRROR
Satire and Truth, Other worlds, Fantastic Voyages, Animal Tales, Distorting Visions of This World, Of Travel and Adventure
The Structure of Satiric Stories and plays
History and Biography
Descriptive Satire
Conclusion
CONDITION: Soft Cover, 1962, 301 pages including index, previous owner name inside front cover, USED lightly, clean. Princeton Paperbacks
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