Anatomy of Satire

ISBN: 9780691619415 出版年：2015 页码：336 Highet, Gilbert Princeton University Press

Literary satire assumes three main forms: monologue, parody, and narrative (some fictional, some dramatic). This book by gilbert highet is a study of these forms, their meaning, their variation, their powers. Its scope is the range of satirical literature--from ancient greece to modern america, from aristophanes to ionesco, from the parodists of homer to the parodists of eisenhower. It shows how satire originated in greece and rome, what its initial purposes and methods were, and how it revived in the renaissance, to continue into our own era.