Satire and the Transformation of Genre

by Leon Guilhamet

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812280531
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	04/29/1987
Series:	Anniversary Collection
Edition description:	Reprint 2016
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

Building on James Sutherland's ob servation in English Satire (1958) that satire is a branch of rhetoric, Guilha met classifies satire as demonstrative (focusing on the present), delibera tive (focusing on the future), or judi cial (using a legalistic frame). Having developed these categories through a general survey of satire in the first part of the book, he proceeds in the second to examine satires by Dryden, Pope, and Swift. Here he elaborates his view that satire is defined not only by its persuasive rhetorical purpose but also by its use of elements drawn from a variety of genres. This brief but well-written study will contribute to a clearer understanding of both the genre of satire and the writings that rely upon this mode.Joseph Ro senblum, English Dept., Univ. of North Carolina at Greensboro

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