The art of satire.
Publisher: Russell & Russell
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Satire
Notes: First published 1940.
Table of contents: title: The Proteus of literature -- Invective. The engine of anger -- Curses and epithets -- The comic -- Burlesque. Satire by comparison -- High and low burlesque -- The burlesque personality -- Rabelais -- Grotesque satire -- Irony, the ally of comedy. The range of irony -- Verbal irony -- Irony of manner -- Chaucer -- Ingénu satire -- Irony, the ally of tragedy. Dramatic irony -- Romantic irony -- Cosmic irony -- Tragedy and comedy -- The abuse of irony -- The evolution of English satire. Primitive satire -- Invective satire -- The great age of ridicule -- Rebirth of irony -- Sphinxes without secrets.