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Satire - Origins and Principles (Hardcover)
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Satire - Origins and Principles (Hardcover)
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Satire, according to Jonathan Swift, is a mirror where beholders
generally discover everybody's face but their own. and over
twenty-four centuries the mirror of satirical literature has taken
on many shapes. Yet certain techniques recur continually, certain
themes are timeless, and some targets are perennial. Politics (the
mismanagement of men by other men) has always been a target of
satire, as has the war between sexes. The universality of satire as
a mode and creative impulse is demonstrated by the cross-cultural
development of lampoon and travesty. Its deep roots and variety are
shown by the persistence of allegory, fable, aphorism, and other
literary subgenres. Hodgart analyzes satire at some of its most
exuberant moments in Western literature, from Aristophanes to
Brecht. His analysis is supplemented by a selection and discussion
of prints and cartoons. Satire continues to help us make sense of
the conventions that seem to have been almost genetically
transmitted from their satiric ancestors to our digital
contemporaries. This is especially evident in Hodgart's repeated
references to satire's predilection for the ephemeral, for
camouflaging itself among the everyday, for speaking to the moment,
and thus for integrating itself as deeply as possible into society.
Brian Connery's new introduction places Hodgart's analysis in its
proper place in the development of twentieth-century criticism.
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