The Literature of Satire is an accessible but sophisticated and
wide-ranging study of satire from the classics to the present in
plays, novels and the press as well as in verse. In it Charles
Knight analyses the rhetorical problems created by satire's complex
relations to its community, and examines how it exploits the genres
it borrows. He argues that satire derives from an awareness of the
differences between appearance, ideas and discourse. Knight
provides illuminating readings of such satirists familiar and
unfamiliar as Horace, Lucian, Jonson, Moliere, Swift, Pope, Byron,
Flaubert, Ostrovsky, Kundera, and Rushdie. This broad-ranging
examination sheds light on the nature and functions of satire as a
mode of writing, as well as on theoretical approaches to it. It
will be of interest to scholars interested in literary theory as
well as those specifically interested in satire.
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