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Satire and the Risks of Ageing
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| Untertitel | Is Satire Too Rooted in Its Time to be of Lasting Interest or Value - The Example of Jonathan Swift (englisch) |
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| Hochschule | University of Manchester |
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| Kurzbeschreibung | Since satire is an art form particularly tightly interwoven with the Zeitgeist, it seems all the more vulnerable to the problems of ageing. In the following essay, the question whether satire can be of lasting interest or not is discussed with reference to two very different satiric works by Jonathan Swift written in the heyday of satiric writing, the Augustan period: |
| Upload | 1998-10-21 08:34:00.0 |
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