Satire and the Transformation of GenreThis book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas. |
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Page 27
... less rigorously prescriptive oratorical model . In his careful study of the speeches in Vergil's Aeneid , Gilbert Highet could find no evidence of a formulary pat- tern . Indeed , oratory itself was less strictly formulated than the ...
... less rigorously prescriptive oratorical model . In his careful study of the speeches in Vergil's Aeneid , Gilbert Highet could find no evidence of a formulary pat- tern . Indeed , oratory itself was less strictly formulated than the ...
Page 51
... . But whatever the status of the Utopia as politeia , the work is much less ambiguous when interpreted as a satire . The strange institutions of the Utopians need not be evaluated literally as social proposals 51 Deliberative Satire.
... . But whatever the status of the Utopia as politeia , the work is much less ambiguous when interpreted as a satire . The strange institutions of the Utopians need not be evaluated literally as social proposals 51 Deliberative Satire.
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... less trouble- some . The entrapment defined by Elliott and many other students of Swift is less surprising when the readers understand it as a principle of satire as kind . But it is no less effective ; indeed , perhaps it is more so ...
... less trouble- some . The entrapment defined by Elliott and many other students of Swift is less surprising when the readers understand it as a principle of satire as kind . But it is no less effective ; indeed , perhaps it is more so ...
Contents
The Simple Structures of Satire | 19 |
The Complex Structures of Satire | 69 |
Swift | 125 |
Copyright | |
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