Raillery and Rage: A Study of Eighteenth Century Satire |
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... rhetorical techniques which contributes to the creative vitality of the satires of the period . As part of my critical method in this book I have sometimes drawn analogies between eighteenth - century and twentieth - century works . My ...
... rhetorical techniques which contributes to the creative vitality of the satires of the period . As part of my critical method in this book I have sometimes drawn analogies between eighteenth - century and twentieth - century works . My ...
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... rhetorical structures for indications of underlying assumptions and pre- occupations . In particular , satire has ... rhetorical posture of a noble , protesting madness is allowed to curdle into a pathological absurdity , in which the ...
... rhetorical structures for indications of underlying assumptions and pre- occupations . In particular , satire has ... rhetorical posture of a noble , protesting madness is allowed to curdle into a pathological absurdity , in which the ...
Page 73
... Rhetorical exaggeration here reaches a pitch of apocalyptic intensity . The imagery performs a tattoo of dark and light forces , civilisation and chaos . The demagogue is a hero of racial purity , wielding the surgeon's scalpel and the ...
... Rhetorical exaggeration here reaches a pitch of apocalyptic intensity . The imagery performs a tattoo of dark and light forces , civilisation and chaos . The demagogue is a hero of racial purity , wielding the surgeon's scalpel and the ...
Contents
Themes and Forms of Augustan Satire | 32 |
Pope | 99 |
John Gay | 122 |
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