C. A. Knight, The Literature of Satire

KNIGHT, Charles A., The Literature of Satire, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 337 p.
ISBN-13 9780521048705


RÉSUMÉ

Ranging from the classics to the present, Charles Knight provides illuminating readings of such satirists as Horace, Lucian, Jonson, Molière, Swift, Pope, Flaubert, Ostrovsky, Kundera, and Rushdie in this study of satire in plays, novels, newsprint and verse. His broad examination sheds new light on the nature and functions of satire as a mode of writing.


TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Acknowledgements; Introduction: the satiric frame of mind

Part I. Satiric Boundaries:

1. Imagination's Cerebrus

2. Satiric nationalism

3. Satiric exile

Part II. Satiric Forms:

4. Satire as performance

5. Horatian performances

6. Satire and the novel

7. Literature and the press: the Battle of Dunkirk

8. White snow and black magic: Karl Kraus and the press

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index.