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Here is the ideal introduction to satire for the student and, for the experienced scholar, an occasion to reconsider the uses, problems, and pleasures of satire in light of contemporary theory. Satire is a staple of the literary classroom. Dustin Griffin moves away from the prevailing moral-didactic approach established thirty some years ago to a more open view and reintegrates the Menippean tradition with the tradition of formal verse satire. Exploring texts from Aristophanes to the moderns, with special emphasis on the eighteenth century, Griffin uses a dozen figures -- Horace, Juvenal, Pers Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Griffin makes the accurate point that theorists of satire have almost never been able to find satirical works that fulfill the criteria of their theories; and that, despite this, they write very good criticism of individual works. The same can be said for him: although he insists that satire is open/ambiguous/unstable and so on, when he actually discusses books or poems all of that goes out the window, and he makes you want to read the stuff.
The discussion of the 'conditions for satire' is very good, but leads to a very strange conclusion: that Byron was the "last great English satirist." This is the book's major limitation: Griffin discounts satire in the novel (hence Byron can be the '*last* great...'). Too bad; I'd like to know what he thought. ( )