A Companion to Satire: Ancient and ModernISBN: 978-0-470-65795-9
Paperback
624 pages
May 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
 Other Available Formats: Hardcover
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- A survey of satire from its emergence in Western literature to the present.
- Tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic books of the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the English tradition in satire to Michael Moore’s satirical movie Fahrenheit 9/11.
- Highlights the important influence of the Bible in the literary and cultural development of Western satire.
- Focused mainly on major classical and European influences on and works of English satire, but also explores the complex and fertile cultural cross-semination within the tradition of literary satire.
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