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The Literature of Satire.(Book review)
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The Literature of Satire. By CHARLES A. KNIGHT. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2004. ix + 327 pp. 50 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-521-83460-0.
According to Charles A. Knight, satire is pre-generic, not so much a genre as an exploiter of other genres (p. 4). His book is, therefore, not an attempt to define satire as a genre but to explore how it takes over literary forms and the shapes it assumes in doing so from Aristophanes to Salman Rushdie. While there are certainly historical insights, or at least stimulating ideas, he attempts no history of satire. His book is more ...
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