Cambridge Introduction to Satire

Provides a comprehensive overview for both beginning and advanced students of satiric forms from ancient poetry to contemporary digital media.

List of contents

Part I: 1. What is satire?; 2. What isn't satire?; Part II: 3. Classical origins; 4. Renaissance satire: rogues, clowns, fools, satyrs; 5. Enlightenment satire: the prose tradition; 6. Verse satire from Rochester to Byron; Part III. Transition: Satire and the Novel: 7. Small worlds: the comedy of manners; 8. Unfortunate travelers: the picaresque; 9. The Menippean novel; 10. Satire and popular culture since 1900; Epilogue: Charlie Hebdo, satire and the politics of community.

About the author

Jonathan Greenberg is Professor of English and Department Chair at Montclair State University, New Jersey, and was awarded the Andrew J. Kappel Prize for Literary Criticism in 2007. He is the author of Modernism, Satire and the Novel (Cambridge, 2011), a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. With Nathan Waddell he co-edited Brave New World: Contexts and Legacies (2016). He has also won an Emmy Award for his writing on the classic Nickelodeon cartoon series, Rugrats.

Summary

A new history of satire that brings foundational scholarship up to date with the theoretical and historical insights of literary studies from the last three decades, this book is a substantive introduction for undergraduate and graduate students, and an essential gateway to more advanced studies.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Greenberg, Jonathan (Montclair State University Greenberg, Greenberg Jonathan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781107682054
• ISBN: 978-1-107-68205-4
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge Introductions to Lit; Cambridge Introductions to Literature; Cambridge Introductions to Lit
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren, English, c 1500 onwards to present day, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers