Satire in Narrative : : Petronius, Swift, Gibbon, Melville, & Pynchon / / Frank Palmeri.
Virtually all theories of satire define it as a criticism of contemporary society. Some argue that satire criticizes the present in favor of a standard of values that has been superseded, and thus that satire is generally backward-looking and conservative. While this is often true of poetic satire,...
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Palmeri, Frank, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Satire in Narrative : Petronius, Swift, Gibbon, Melville, & Pynchon / Frank Palmeri. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©1990 1 online resource (195 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Satiric Parody of Classicism in the Satyricon -- 2. Satiric Materialism in A Tale of a Tub -- 3. Satire, Epic, and History in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -- 4. The Dialogue of Credit and Doubt in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade -- 5. Parody and Paradigms in The Crying of Lot 49 -- Epilogue: Borges, Satire, and History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Virtually all theories of satire define it as a criticism of contemporary society. Some argue that satire criticizes the present in favor of a standard of values that has been superseded, and thus that satire is generally backward-looking and conservative. While this is often true of poetic satire, in this study Frank Palmeri asserts that narrative satire performs a different function, that it parodies both the established view of the world and that of its opponents, offering its own distinctive critical perspective. This theory of satire builds on the idea of dialogical parody in the work of Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, while revising Bakhtin's estimate of carnival. In Palmeri's view, the carnivalesque offers only an inverted mirror image of authoritative discourse, while parodic narrative satire suggests an alternative to both the official world and its inverted opposite. Palmeri applies this theory of narrative satire to five works of world literature, each of which has generated sharp controversy about the genre to which it rightly belongs: Petronius' Satyricon, Jonathan Swift's A Tale of a Tub, Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Herman Melville's The Confidence-Man, and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49. He analyzes the features that link these works and shows how the changing pairs of alternatives that are parodied in these satires reflect changes in the terms of social and cultural oppositions. Satire in Narrative will appeal to comparatists, specialists in eighteenth-century and American literature, and others interested in theories of genre and the relations between literary forms and social history. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2022) American fiction History and criticism. Narration (Rhetoric) History. Satire Roman influences. Satire, American History and criticism. Satire, English History and criticism. Satire, Latin History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110745351 https://doi.org/10.7560/776319 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477301593 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477301593/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Satiric Parody of Classicism in the Satyricon -- 2. Satiric Materialism in A Tale of a Tub -- 3. Satire, Epic, and History in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -- 4. The Dialogue of Credit and Doubt in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade -- 5. Parody and Paradigms in The Crying of Lot 49 -- Epilogue: Borges, Satire, and History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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