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A Companion to Satire: Ancient and Modern
Contributor(s): Quintero, Ruben (Editor)
ISBN: 0470657952     ISBN-13: 9780470657959
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
OUR PRICE:   $62.65  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Books & Reading
Dewey: 809.7
LCCN: 2011456094
Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture (Paperback)
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.7" W x 9.6" (2.40 lbs) 624 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire from its emergence in Western literature to the present.

  • Tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic books of the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the English tradition in satire to Michael Moore's satirical movie Fahrenheit 9/11.
  • Highlights the important influence of the Bible in the literary and cultural development of Western satire.
  • Focused mainly on major classical and European influences on and works of English satire, but also explores the complex and fertile cultural cross-semination within the tradition of literary satire.