Indian Satire in the Period of First Modernity

By Monika Horstmann

Satire reveals fault lines and incongruities between ideal and practice. Satirical discourse may be independent or invade and parody literary genres. It unmasks, ridicules and thereby deconstructs evil and hypocrisy to reconstruct honesty and reason, and at its farthest end may amount to moral utopia. This volume brings together essa

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3447065370
• ISBN13: 9783447065375
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Harrassowitz
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.4"