TY - BOOK AU - Snyder,John TI - Prospects of power: tragedy, satire, the essay, and the theory of genre SN - 9780813156880 AV - PN45 .P767 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Lexington PB - The University Press of Kentucky KW - Criticism KW - Essay KW - Literary form KW - Satire KW - Tragedy KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - Genre -- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=938340&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -