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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... structures in their own right . A certain thematic freight is trans- ported by every formal structure , and since external formal structures are regularly borrowed by satire , some themes associated with those forms may find their way ...
... structures in their own right . A certain thematic freight is trans- ported by every formal structure , and since external formal structures are regularly borrowed by satire , some themes associated with those forms may find their way ...
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... structural dynamic and curtailed length . The simple sat- ire also maintains a single basic rhetorical pattern , even when a mimetic structure is the host form . The basic rhetorical patterns imitated by simple satire correspond roughly ...
... structural dynamic and curtailed length . The simple sat- ire also maintains a single basic rhetorical pattern , even when a mimetic structure is the host form . The basic rhetorical patterns imitated by simple satire correspond roughly ...
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... structure by means of modal satire , comic ridicule , and ironic devices . The only difference is the much more elaborate use of additional genres and styles so that the form becomes preeminently mingled satire . As in all satire , the ...
... structure by means of modal satire , comic ridicule , and ironic devices . The only difference is the much more elaborate use of additional genres and styles so that the form becomes preeminently mingled satire . As in all satire , the ...
Contents
The Simple Structures of Satire | 19 |
The Complex Structures of Satire | 69 |
Swift | 125 |
Copyright | |
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