Prospects of power tragedy, satire, the essay, and the theory of genre /
Snyder, John.
Prospects of power tragedy, satire, the essay, and the theory of genre / John Snyder. - Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (252 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1. Contemporary Genre Theory; 2. Tragedies; Persians: Tragedy of Battle Victory; Eumenides: Tragedy of State Victory; Philoctetes: Tragedy of Stalemate; Medea: Tragedy of Winner-Lose-All; 3. Tragic Genre; 4. Satires; Juvenal: Satire to Tragedy; Petronius: Satire to Novel; Don Quixote: Satire to Fantasy to Romance to Novel; Butler: Conservative Satire to Mock Epic; Twain: Liberal Burlesque to Novel; Hasek: Menippean Satire to Anarchism; 5. Satiric Semigenre; 6. On and of the Essay as Nongenre; Retreat: Cicero and Montaigne. Lover of Fortuna and Enemy: Machiavelli and Bacon""Retraite absolue"": Rousseau; Aggression and Experimentalism: Emerson and Nietzsche; 7. Toward a Dialectical Theory of Genre; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
Genre --
9780813156880
Criticism.
Essay.
Literary form.
Satire.
Tragedy.
Electronic Books.
PN45 / .P767 2015
Prospects of power tragedy, satire, the essay, and the theory of genre / John Snyder. - Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (252 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1. Contemporary Genre Theory; 2. Tragedies; Persians: Tragedy of Battle Victory; Eumenides: Tragedy of State Victory; Philoctetes: Tragedy of Stalemate; Medea: Tragedy of Winner-Lose-All; 3. Tragic Genre; 4. Satires; Juvenal: Satire to Tragedy; Petronius: Satire to Novel; Don Quixote: Satire to Fantasy to Romance to Novel; Butler: Conservative Satire to Mock Epic; Twain: Liberal Burlesque to Novel; Hasek: Menippean Satire to Anarchism; 5. Satiric Semigenre; 6. On and of the Essay as Nongenre; Retreat: Cicero and Montaigne. Lover of Fortuna and Enemy: Machiavelli and Bacon""Retraite absolue"": Rousseau; Aggression and Experimentalism: Emerson and Nietzsche; 7. Toward a Dialectical Theory of Genre; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
Genre --
9780813156880
Criticism.
Essay.
Literary form.
Satire.
Tragedy.
Electronic Books.
PN45 / .P767 2015