The history of John Bull
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Contains the five pamphlets with their original title pages: [1] Law is a bottomless-pit -- [2] John Bull in his senses -- [3] John Bull still in his senses -- [4] An appendix to John Bull still in his senses -- [5] Lewis Baboon turned honest, and John Bull politician. Pamphlets…
"Juvenal's sixth Satire is a masterpiece of comic hyperbole, an outrageous rant against women and marriage which, in its breadth and density, represents the high point of the misogynistic literature of classical antiquity. The Introduction situates Juvenal within the wider tradi…
"In this groundbreaking study, Jonathan Greenberg locates a satiric sensibility at the heart of the modern. By promoting an antisentimental education, modernism denied the authority of emotion to guarantee moral and literary value. Instead, it fostered sophisticated, detached an…
Stephen Colbert is a pop culture phenomenon. More than one million people backed his fake candidacy in the 2008 U.S. presidential election on Facebook, a testament to the set of issues and emotions Colbert brings to mind. Each chapter is written by a philosopher and all focused …
Aggressive Schreibweisen - Polemik, Invektive, vor allem aber "Satire" - sind seit der Antike einem Rechtfertigungsdruck ausgesetzt, der letztlich im Tabu der Kultur über Gewalt wurzelt. Die vorliegende Arbeit versteht Theoriebildung und Praxis "satirischen" Schreibens als Resul…
In laying the groundwork for a fresh and challenging reading of Roman satire, Kirk Freudenburg explores the literary precedents behind the situations and characters created by Horace, one of Rome's earliest and most influential satirists. Critics tend to think that his two books…
In laying the groundwork for a fresh and challenging reading of Roman satire, Kirk Freudenburg explores the literary precedents behind the situations and characters created by Horace, one of Rome's earliest and most influential satirists. Critics tend to think that his two books…
