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Satire and the Threat of Speech
Language: en
Pages: 198
Authors: Catherine M. Schlegel
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-12-29 - Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press

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In his first book of Satires, written in the late, violent days of the Roman republic, Horace exposes satiric speech as a tool of power and domination. Using cr
The Cambridge Introduction to Satire
Language: en
Pages: 335
Authors: Jonathan Greenberg
Categories: Humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Provides a comprehensive overview for both beginning and advanced students of satiric forms from ancient poetry to contemporary digital media.
Satire and Dissent
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: Amber Day
Categories: Humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-02-16 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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In an age when Jon Stewart frequently tops lists of most-trusted newscasters, the films of Michael Moore become a dominant topic of political campaign analysis,
The Arena of Satire
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: David H. J. Larmour
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-04 - Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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In this first comprehensive reading of Juvenal’s satires in more than fifty years, David H. J. Larmour deftly revises and sharpens our understanding of the se
The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire
Language: en
Pages: 753
Authors: Paddy Bullard
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-30 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Eighteenth-century Britain thought of itself as a polite, sentimental, enlightened place, but often its literature belied this self-image. This was an age of sa