The Difference Satire Makes: Rhetoric and Reading from Jonson to Byron

by Fredric V. Bogel

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801477859
• ISBN13: 9780801477850
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher