Theorizing Satire
Subtitle: Essays in Literary Criticism
Contributors: Brian A. Connery (Editor); Kirk Combe (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 15, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780312123024
Subjects: General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Satire And Humor; Literature - Classics / Criticism; History and criticism; Satire; Literary Criticism
First sentence: The idea cited here, from Ben Jonson's Discoveries, is hardly new: we think of Buffon's Le style est l'homme meme; you can judge a book by its cover, or at least by its superficies and supernumeraries-style, layout, introductory and concluding matter, publisher, grants, fellowships, patrons, accolades, and friends.