Satire : Ogborn, Jane : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

128 pages : 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 120-121) and index

Approaching the subject -- What is satire? -- Satire in English literature -- Satire as a literary genre -- Standing the test of time -- The language of satire -- Understanding satire in different contexts -- Approaching the texts -- What does context mean in relation to a text? -- Combining knowledge of contexts with close reading -- Contexts as keys -- Linking contexts, subject, and form in satirical texts -- Recognising writers' attitudes to their subject matter -- Texts and extracts -- From The Canterbury tales: general prologue / Geoffrey Chaucer -- From Colin Clout / John Skelton -- From The alchemist / Ben Jonson -- From Absalom and Achitophel / John Dryden -- From The way of the world / William Congreve -- A meditation upon a broomstick / Jonathan Swift -- From Gulliver's travels / Jonathan Swift -- From A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- From The rape of the lock / Alexander Pope -- From Moral essays, epistle 4: on the use of riches / Alexander Pope -- From Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot / Alexander Pope -- Marriage a-la-mode: The countess's morning levee / William Hogarth -- From Northanger Abbey / Jane Austen -- From Don Juan / Lord Byron -- From Bleak house / Charles Dickens -- The latest Decalogue / Arthur Hugh Clough -- From The adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain -- Next to of course god america i / E.E. Cummings -- A salesman is an it that stinks Excuse / E.E. Cummings -- YgUDuh / E.E. Cummings -- From Decline and fall / Evelyn Waugh -- From Catch-22 / Joseph Heller -- Poet for our times / Carol Ann Duffy -- Making money / Carol Ann Duffy -- Righty ho! / Steve Bell -- Critical approaches -- What does the word "reading" mean? -- The writer and the text -- The reader and the text -- Critical approaches in the 20th century -- Critical approaches to some key satirical texts -- How to write about satirical texts -- The profitable discussion of literature -- Developing your own critical reading and writing -- Satire "trails."

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