Anatomy of Satire

by Gilbert Highet

Book Overview

Literary satire assumes three main forms: monologue, parody, and narrative (some fictional, some dramatic). This book by Gilbert Highet is a study of these forms, their meaning, their variation, their powers. Its scope is the range of satirical literature--from ancient Greece to modern America, from Aristophanes to Ionesco, from the parodists of Homer to the parodists of Eisenhower. It shows how satire originated in Greece and Rome, what its initial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691060053
• ISBN13: 9780691060057
• Release Date: September 1962
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.