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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... ridiculous objects as things of no importance , the harmlessly ugly or base , 30 satire interprets the ridiculous as harmful or destructive , at least potentially . This harm may come to others or even to the object of satire himself ...
... ridiculous objects as things of no importance , the harmlessly ugly or base , 30 satire interprets the ridiculous as harmful or destructive , at least potentially . This harm may come to others or even to the object of satire himself ...
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... ridiculous , but each mode bears a different relationship to it . The basic difference between the satiric and the comic is that the satiric reinterprets the ridiculous in an ethical light . The satiric employs comic tech- niques of ...
... ridiculous , but each mode bears a different relationship to it . The basic difference between the satiric and the comic is that the satiric reinterprets the ridiculous in an ethical light . The satiric employs comic tech- niques of ...
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... ridiculous . Zimri , Sporus , and Mac Flecknoe are completely ridiculous , but they are also harmful and dangerous . Satire , thus , depends on the reader's ability to take a comic and serious view of an object at the same time . This ...
... ridiculous . Zimri , Sporus , and Mac Flecknoe are completely ridiculous , but they are also harmful and dangerous . Satire , thus , depends on the reader's ability to take a comic and serious view of an object at the same time . This ...
Contents
The Simple Structures of Satire | 19 |
The Complex Structures of Satire | 69 |
Swift | 125 |
Copyright | |
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