Arguments of Augustan Wit

Klappentext John Sitter makes a challenging claim for the importance of wit in the writings of Dryden, Rochester, Prior, Berkeley, Gay, Pope and Swift. Zusammenfassung Comic and satiric literature from the 1670s to the 1740s is characterized by the word play of Augustan wit. John Sitter makes a challenging claim for the importance of wit in the writings of Dryden! Rochester! Prior! Berkeley! Gay! Pope and Swift! as an analytic mode as well as one of stylistic sophistication. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. The character progress as an Augustan phenomenon; 2. About wit: Locke, Jakobson, and Augustan ideas; 3. On the matter of wit; 4. Gravity, abstraction, and crackpot materialism; 5. That satire is art, only more so; Conclusion; Index.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John Sitter
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 08.10.2007
• EAN: 9780521044554
• ISBN: 978-0-521-04455-4
• Pagine: 204
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Eighteent
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese