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Prospects of power tragedy, satire, the essay, and the theory of genre / John Snyder.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)2015.Description: 1 online resource (252 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813156880
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN45 .P767 2015
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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.

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