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 Some argue that satire criticizes the present in favor of a standard of values that has been superseded, and thus that satire is generally backward-looking and conservative.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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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
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Table of Contents:
- 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