The Literature of Satire

Ranging from the classics to the present Charles Knight provides illuminatingreadings of such satirists as Horace Lucian Jonson Moli re Swift PopeFlaubert Ostro... » 

Ranging from the classics to the present Charles Knight provides illuminatingreadings of such satirists as Horace Lucian Jonson Moli re Swift PopeFlaubert Ostrovsky Kundera and Rushdie in this study of satire in playsnovels newsprint and verse. His broad examination sheds new light on thenature and functions of satire as a mode of writing. «