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Satire, says M. H. Abrams in his influential and judicious Glossary of Literary Terms, is "the literary art of diminishing or derogating a subject by making it ridiculous and evoking toward it attitudes of amusement, contempt, scorn or indignation." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
readerly ego, satiric object, satiric authority, satiric rhetoric, satiric structure, satiric opposition, difference satire, satiric texts, satiric judgment, satire criticism, satiric mode, metaphoric identification, satiric attack, categorial distinction, flying island, mimetic desire Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jonathan Wild, New York, The Beggar's Opera, Yale University Press, New Haven, Don Juan, Jonathan Swift, Princeton University Press, Alexander Pope, Kenneth Burke, Peri Bathous, Alvin Kernan, Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, Mary Douglas, Pamela Robbins, Paradise Lost, René Girard, University of Chicago Press, Cornell University Press, Martin Price, Northrop Frye, The Lady's Dressing Room, Eric Bogosian, Mac Flecknoe New!
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Satire, says M. H. Abrams in his influential and judicious Glossary of Literary Terms, is "the literary art of diminishing or derogating a subject by making it ridiculous and evoking toward it attitudes of amusement, contempt, scorn or indignation." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
readerly ego, satiric object, satiric authority, satiric rhetoric, satiric structure, satiric opposition, difference satire, satiric texts, satiric judgment, satire criticism, satiric mode, metaphoric identification, satiric attack, categorial distinction, flying island, mimetic desire Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jonathan Wild, New York, The Beggar's Opera, Yale University Press, New Haven, Don Juan, Jonathan Swift, Princeton University Press, Alexander Pope, Kenneth Burke, Peri Bathous, Alvin Kernan, Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, Mary Douglas, Pamela Robbins, Paradise Lost, René Girard, University of Chicago Press, Cornell University Press, Martin Price, Northrop Frye, The Lady's Dressing Room, Eric Bogosian, Mac Flecknoe New!
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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books:
- Jonathan Wild (Oxford World's Classics) by Henry Fielding on 27 pages
- Don Juan (Penguin Classics) by Lord George Gordon Byron on 10 pages