Difference Satire Makes Rhetoric and Reading from Jonson to Byron

Name: Difference Satire Makes Rhetoric and Reading from Jonson to Byron
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ISBN: 9780801477850

ISBN-10: 0801477859

ISBN-13: 9780801477850

Edition: 2012

Authors: Fredric V. Bogel

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Offering both the first major revision of satiric rhetoric in decades and a critical account of the modern history of satire criticism, Fredric V. Bogel maintains that the central structure of the satiric mode has been misunderstood. Devoting attention to Augustan satiric texts and other examples of satire—from writings by Ben Jonson and Lord Byron to recent performance art—Bogel finds a complicated interaction between identification and distance, intimacy and repudiation.Drawing on anthropological insights and the writings of Kenneth Burke, Bogel articulates a rigorous, richly developed theory of satire. While accepting the view that the mode is built on the tension between satirist and…

Book details

List price: $44.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 4/20/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Fredric V. Bogel is Professor of English at Cornell University. He is the author of Literature and Insubstantiality in Later Eighteenth-Century England and The Dream of My Brother: An Essay on Johnson's Authority.