The Literature of Satire by Charles A. Knight

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Title: The Literature of Satire

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 2004

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: As NewVery fine hardback with dust jacket now protected in removable cover. Ranging from the classics to the present, Charles Knight provides illuminating readings of such satirists as Horace, Lucian, Jonson, Molière, Swift, Pope, Flaubert, Kundera and Rushdie in this study of satire in plays, novels, newsprint and verse. His broad examination sheds new light on the nature and functions of satire as a mode of writing.

Edition: 1st Edition