Anatomy of Satire 9781400849772

Literary satire assumes three main forms: monologue, parody, and narrative (some fictional, some dramatic). This book by

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Table of contents :
Contents
I. Introduction
II. Diatribe
III. Parody
IV. The Distorting Mirror
V. Conclusion
Abbreviations
Notes
Brief Bibliography
Index
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BOOKS

BY

GILBERT

H I G H E T :

The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature (Oxford, 1949) The Art of Teaching (Knopf, 1950) People, Places, and Books (Oxford, 1953) Man's Unconquerable Mind (Columbia, 1954) The Migration of Ideas (Oxford, 1954) A Clerk of Oxenford (Oxford, 1954) Juvenal the Satirist (Oxford, 1954) Poets in a Landscape (Knopf, 1957) Talents and Geniuses (Oxford, 1957) The Powers of Poetry (Oxford, 1957) The Anatomy of Satire (Princeton, 1962) The Speeches in Vergil's Aeneid (Princeton, 1972)

THE ANATOMY OF SATIRE

THE ANATOMY OF

SATIRE BY GILBERT HIGHET

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS

Copyright © 1962 by Gilbert Highet Published, 196a, by Princeton University Press

L.C. Card 61-12099 ISBN 0-691-01306-3 (paperback edn.) ISBN 0-691-06005-3 (hardcover edn.)