A Glossary of Literary TermsAs in the first edition, this work is organized as a series of succinct essays in the alphabetical order of the title term, but it now includes new essays, many drastically recast essays, and expanded and updated lists of suggested readings. |
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Page 187
... Satire can be described as the literary art of diminishing or derogating a sub- ject by making it ridiculous and evoking toward it attitudes of amusement ... Satire occurs as an incidental element within numerous works whose RHYME SATIRE 187.
... Satire can be described as the literary art of diminishing or derogating a sub- ject by making it ridiculous and evoking toward it attitudes of amusement ... Satire occurs as an incidental element within numerous works whose RHYME SATIRE 187.
Page 189
... satires . " It should be noted that any narrative or other literary vehicle can be adapted to the purposes of indirect satire . John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel turns Old Testament history into a satiric allegory on Restoration ...
... satires . " It should be noted that any narrative or other literary vehicle can be adapted to the purposes of indirect satire . John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel turns Old Testament history into a satiric allegory on Restoration ...
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... Satire ( 1952 ) ; James Sutherland , English Satire ( 1958 ) ; R. C. Elliott , The Power of Satire ( 1960 ) ; Gilbert Highet , The Anatomy of Satire ( 1962 ) ; Alvin B. Kernan , The Plot of Satire ( 1965 ) ; Matthew Hodgart , Satire ...
... Satire ( 1952 ) ; James Sutherland , English Satire ( 1958 ) ; R. C. Elliott , The Power of Satire ( 1960 ) ; Gilbert Highet , The Anatomy of Satire ( 1962 ) ; Alvin B. Kernan , The Plot of Satire ( 1965 ) ; Matthew Hodgart , Satire ...
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aesthetic Alexander Pope allegory American analysis applied artistic ballad called characters comedy comic concepts conventions cultural deconstruction Derrida developed discourse distinction diverse drama effect Elizabethan England English epic essays example feminist French genre Greek human I. A. Richards ideology imitation interpretation irony James John Jonathan Culler language lines linguistic literary criticism literary text literature lyric M. H. Abrams Marxist Marxist criticism meaning medieval metaphor meter Milton mode modern moral myths narrative narrator neoclassic Northrop Frye novel object period philosophical play plot poem poetic poetry poets poststructural prose fiction reader reader-response criticism reading reference Renaissance represented rhetorical rhyme Robert Romantic satire semiotic sense Shakespeare's signify social sonnet speech stanza story stress structuralist structure style T. S. Eliot term theory Thomas tion traditional tragedy utterance verbal verse W. B. Yeats W. H. Auden W. K. Wimsatt William words writers written