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. Knight provides illuminating readings of such satirists familiar and unfamiliar as Horace, Lucian, Jonson, Molière, Swift, Pope, Flaubert, Ostrovsky, Kundera, and Rushdie. This broad-ranging examination sheds new light on the nature and functions of satire as a mode of writing. It will be of interest to scholars interested in literary theory as well as those specifically interested in satire.
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