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 1
... seems to me the result more of basic confusions than of universal accord . The issue of the persona is one where the battle lines have been clearly drawn . Persona may seem a quaint and old - fashioned issue more than thirty years after ...
... seems to me the result more of basic confusions than of universal accord . The issue of the persona is one where the battle lines have been clearly drawn . Persona may seem a quaint and old - fashioned issue more than thirty years after ...
Page 131
... seems hopelessly at odds with the other generic tendencies to this point . The work has been called a treatise ; the tale of the three brothers has taken several generic directions . The hack's assumption of the role of historian adds ...
... seems hopelessly at odds with the other generic tendencies to this point . The work has been called a treatise ; the tale of the three brothers has taken several generic directions . The hack's assumption of the role of historian adds ...
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... seems to have been completed , al- though the caveat about “ disobliging England " seems more Swift than mask . But if we think we have recurred to the consistency of the fiction , we are wrong . For the next sentence draws the reader ...
... seems to have been completed , al- though the caveat about “ disobliging England " seems more Swift than mask . But if we think we have recurred to the consistency of the fiction , we are wrong . For the next sentence draws the reader ...
Contents
The Simple Structures of Satire | 19 |
The Complex Structures of Satire | 69 |
Swift | 125 |
Copyright | |
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