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 43
... true to Ovid's central theme of meta- morphosis , the Lapith hero Caenus ( if the account be true ) turns into a golden bird which takes wing to heaven . Lucian , Régnier , Boileau , and Rochester , however , dispense with the divine ...
... true to Ovid's central theme of meta- morphosis , the Lapith hero Caenus ( if the account be true ) turns into a golden bird which takes wing to heaven . Lucian , Régnier , Boileau , and Rochester , however , dispense with the divine ...
Page 150
... True History became the model for later imaginary voyages , even as it parodied and sati- rized the Odyssey itself . Some imaginary voyages standing between Lucian and Swift are Bishop Francis Godwin's The Man in the Moon ( 1638 ) ...
... True History became the model for later imaginary voyages , even as it parodied and sati- rized the Odyssey itself . Some imaginary voyages standing between Lucian and Swift are Bishop Francis Godwin's The Man in the Moon ( 1638 ) ...
Page 155
... true Spirit of Liberty ; for their Valour and Love of their Country . Neither could I be wholly unmoved after comparing the Living with the Dead , when I considered how all these pure native Virtues were prostituted for a Piece of Money ...
... true Spirit of Liberty ; for their Valour and Love of their Country . Neither could I be wholly unmoved after comparing the Living with the Dead , when I considered how all these pure native Virtues were prostituted for a Piece of Money ...
Contents
The Simple Structures of Satire | 19 |
The Complex Structures of Satire | 69 |
Swift | 125 |
Copyright | |
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