Theorizing Satire: Essays in Literary Criticism

This collection brings together the insights of New Criticism, philology, rhetorical analysis, genre theory, deconstructionism, and the new historicism applied to classical, British, Continental, and American satire. Essays offer close readings of authors such as Lucilius, Horace, Swift, and Joe Bob Briggs, and discusses the novels of the German Enlightenment and the postmodern British campus novel. For undergraduates, graduates, and specialists. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.