Augustan Satire

Author : Nadja Groß
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783656393146

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The Augustan Satire: exemplified on Alexander Pope’s "The Rape of the Lock" by Nadja Groß Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,7, University of Trier, course: Alexander Pope, language: English, abstract: “Pope is the standout poet of the eighteenth century. A master of form and register, a maestro of metre, and a doyden of wit, Pope will remain among the most read and most imitated writers in the English language” (Budge 2009, 54.) Alexander Pope is often referred to as one of the greatest critics of all times. He is a great author and his poems are commonly known in the world of Literature. His satirical style is brilliant and exemplified in many of his poems. In the following, I am going to analyze the Augustan poem “The Rape of the Lock”, specifically in terms of its satirical elements. Therefore, I want to start with a look at a few definitions of the Satire. Next, I will go into more detail by defining the Augustan Satire as a subgenre of Satire. After validating these two term’s definitions, there will be the actual analysis. Due to limitations of space, however, I cannot consider all of the satirical elements of the poem, and have decided to put my main focus on the role of Belinda.

Author : Peter Kingsley Elkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Humor
ISBN : UOM:39015005732113

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The Augustan Defence of Satire by Peter Kingsley Elkin Pdf

Author : Frederick Wilse Bateson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : English literature
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature by Frederick Wilse Bateson Pdf

Author : Ian Jack
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002587454

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Augustan Satire by Ian Jack Pdf

Author : Ashley Marshall
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421408170

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The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770 by Ashley Marshall Pdf

An exhaustive study of satire in the long eighteenth century. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice In The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770, Ashley Marshall explores how satire was conceived and understood by writers and readers of the period. Her account is based on a reading of some 3,000 works, ranging from one-page squibs to novels. The objective is not to recuperate particular minor works but to recover the satiric milieu—to resituate the masterpieces amid the hundreds of other works alongside which they were originally written and read. The long eighteenth century is generally hailed as the great age of satire, and as such, it has received much critical attention. However, scholars have focused almost exclusively on a small number of canonical works, such as Gulliver's Travels and The Dunciad, and have not looked for continuity over time. Marshall revises the standard account of eighteenth-century satire, revealing it to be messy, confused, and discontinuous, exhibiting radical and rapid changes over time. The true history of satire in its great age is not a history at all. Rather, it is a collection of episodic little histories.

Author : Katherine Mannheimer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136728563

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Print, Visuality, and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Satire by Katherine Mannheimer Pdf

This study interprets eighteenth-century satire’s famous typographical obsession as a fraught response to the Enlightenment’s "ocularcentric" epistemological paradigms, as well as to a print-cultural moment identified by book-historians as increasingly "visual" — a moment at which widespread attention was being paid, for the first time, to format, layout, and eye-catching advertising strategies. On the one hand, the Augustans were convinced of the ability of their elaborately printed texts to function as a kind of optical machinery rivaling that of the New Science, enhancing readers’ physical but also moral vision. On the other hand, they feared that an overly scrutinizing gaze might undermine the viewer’s natural faculty for candor and sympathy, delight and desire. In readings of Pope, Swift, and Montagu, Mannheimer shows how this distrust of the empirical gaze led to a reconsideration of the ethics, and most specifically the gender politics, of ocularcentrism. Whereas Montagu effected this reconsideration by directly satirizing both the era’s faith in the visual and its attendant publishing strategies, Pope and Swift pursued their critique via print itself: thus whether via facing-page translations, fictional editors, or disingenuous footnotes, these writers sought to ensure that typography never became either a mere tool of (or target for) the objectifying gaze, but rather that it remained a dynamic and interactive medium by which readers could learn both to see and to see themselves seeing.

Author : Ruben Quintero
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405171991

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A Companion to Satire by Ruben Quintero Pdf

This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire fromits emergence in Western literature to the present. Tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic booksof the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the Englishtradition in satire to Michael Moore’s satirical movieFahrenheit 9/11. Highlights the important influence of the Bible in the literaryand cultural development of Western satire. Focused mainly on major classical and European influences onand works of English satire, but also explores the complex andfertile cultural cross-semination within the tradition of literarysatire.

Author : Paddy Bullard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191043710

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The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire by Paddy Bullard Pdf

Eighteenth century Britain thought of itself as a polite, sentimental, enlightened place, but often its literature belied this self-image. This was an age of satire, and the century's novels, poems, plays, and prints resound with mockery and laughter, with cruelty and wit. The street-level invective of Grub Street pamphleteers is full of satire, and the same accents of raillery echo through the high scepticism of the period's philosophers and poets, many of whom were part-time pamphleteers themselves. The novel, a genre that emerged during the eighteenth century, was from the beginning shot through with satirical colours borrowed from popular romances and scandal sheets. This Handbook is a guide to the different kinds of satire written in English during the 'long' eighteenth century. It focuses on texts that appeared between the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in 1660 and the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. Outlier chapters extend the story back to first decade of the seventeenth century, and forward to the second decade of the nineteenth. The scope of the volume is not confined by genre, however. So prevalent was the satirical mode in writing of the age that this book serves as a broad and characteristic survey of its literature. The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire reflects developments in historical criticism of eighteenth-century writing over the last two decades, and provides a forum in which the widening diversity of literary, intellectual, and socio-historical approaches to the period's texts can come together.

Author : Raman Selden
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000908497

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English Verse Satire 1590-1765 by Raman Selden Pdf

First published in 1978 English Verse Satire aims to provide a critical study of the major English verse satirists as well as an account of the historical development of verse satire. Critical accounts are offered of important writers including Donne, Vaughan, Butler, Rochester, Dryden, Oldham, Swift, Pope, Young, Dr. Johnson and Churchill. An account of verse satire commences historically with the Roman satirists and Dr Selden has provided a substantial treatment of Horace and Juvenal as the basis for a study of the evolution of verse satire from the Elizabethan period to the end of the Augustan period. A special feature of the book is the emphasis on tradition, continuity, and innovation. This book is an interesting read for scholars of English literature.

Author : Evan R. Davis,Nicholas D. Nace
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603293815

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Teaching Modern British and American Satire by Evan R. Davis,Nicholas D. Nace Pdf

This volume addresses the teaching of satire written in English over the past three hundred years. For instructors covering current satire, it suggests ways to enrich students' understanding of voice, irony, and rhetoric and to explore the questions of how to define satire and how to determine what its ultimate aims are. For instructors teaching older satire, it demonstrates ways to help students gain knowledge of historical context, medium, and audience, while addressing more specific literary questions of technique and form. Readers will discover ways to introduce students to authors such as Swift and Twain, to techniques such as parody and verbal irony, and to the difficult subject of satire's offensiveness and elitism. This volume also helps teachers of a wide variety of courses, from composition to gateway courses and surveys, think about how to use modern satire in conceiving and structuring them.

Author : Leon Guilhamet
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512802092

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Satire and the Transformation of Genre by Leon Guilhamet Pdf

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Author : Howard D. Weinbrot
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781400857371

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Alexander Pope and the Traditions of Formal Verse Satire by Howard D. Weinbrot Pdf

Ranging over the tradition of verse satire from the Roman poets to their seventeenth- and eighteenth-century imitators in England and France, Howard D. Weinbrot challenges the common view of Alexander Pope as a Horatian satirist in a Horatian age. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Nicholas Seager,J. A. Downie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198827177

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The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe by Nicholas Seager,J. A. Downie Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Daniel Defoe is the most comprehensive overview available of the author's life, times, writings, and reception. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) is a major author in world literature, renowned for a succession of novels including Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders, and A Journal of the Plague Year, but more famous in his lifetime as a poet, journalist, and political agent. Across his vast oeuvre, which includes books, pamphlets, and periodicals, Defoe commented on virtually every development and issue of his lifetime, a turbulent and transformative period in British and global history. Defoe has proven challenging to position--in some respects he is a traditional and conservative thinker, but in other ways he is a progressive and innovative writer. He therefore benefits from the range of critical appraisals offered in this Handbook. The Handbook ranges from concerns of gender, class, and race to those of politics, religion, and economics. In accessible but learned chapters, contributors explore salient contexts in ways that show how they overlap and intersect, such as in chapters on science, environment, and empire. The Handbook provides both a thorough introduction to Defoe and to early eighteenth-century society, culture, and literature more broadly. Thirty-six chapters by leading literary scholars and historians explore the various genres in which Defoe wrote; the sociocultural contexts that inform his works; his writings on different locales, from the local to the global; and the posthumous reception and creative responses to his works.

Author : Hermann Fischer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783111659169

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English satirical poetry from Joseph Hall to Percy B. Shelley by Hermann Fischer Pdf

Author : Blanford Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521590884

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The Triumph of Augustan Poetics by Blanford Parker Pdf

The Triumph of Augustan Poetics offers an important re-evaluation of the transition from Baroque to Augustan in English literature. Starting with Butler's Hudibras, Blanford Parker describes Augustan satire as a movement away from the 'controversial disputation' of the seventeenth century to a general satire which ridicules Protestant, Anglican and Catholic in equal measure, as well as the poetic traditions that supported them. Once the dominant forms of late medieval and Baroque thought - analogical and fideist, a fully symbolic world and an empty wilderness - were erased, a novel space for the imagination was created. Here a 'literalism' new to European thought can be seen to have replaced the general satire, and at this moment Pope and Thomson create a new art of natural and quotidian description, in parallel with the rise of the novel. Parker's account concludes with the ambiguous or hostile reaction to this new mode seen in the works of Samuel Johnson and others.