Snyder, John. <br/><br/>
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) 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813156880 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Criticism.<br/>Essay.<br/>Literary form.<br/>Satire.<br/>Tragedy.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN45  / .P767 2015