Satire in Narrative: Petronius, Swift, Gibbon, Melville, & Pynchon

by Frank Palmeri

Book Overview

Virtually all theories of satire define it as a criticism of contemporary society. Some argue that satire criticizes the present in favor of a standard of values that has been superseded, and thus that satire is generally backward-looking and conservative. While this is often true of poetic satire, in this study Frank Palmeri asserts that narrative satire performs a different function, that it parodies both the established view of the world and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292741502
• ISBN13: 9780292741508
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 195 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"