Satire

Cambridge Contexts in Literature

AUTHOR(S):

Jane Ogborn / Peter Buckroyd / Adrian Barlow

REGION:

Australia & New Zealand

LEVELS:

Year 11 / Year 12

SUBJECT AREA:

English

EDITION:

1ed

ISBN:

9780521787918

PUBLICATION DATE:

02/04/2001

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The extracts chosen for this text attempt to provide a broad historical map of satire in English literature, from Chaucer to the present day. While satire initially appears more dependent than most on the historical or social context in which it was produced, this book also considers other contexts in which texts are written and read: contexts relating to a text's genre, its language, its author and reader.

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Introduction

1. Approaching the subject
   What is satire?
   Satire in English literature
   Satire as a literary genre
   Standing the test of time
   The language of satire
   Understanding satire in different contexts

2. Approaching the texts
   What does 'context' mean in relation to a text?
   Combining knowledge of contexts with close reading
   Contexts as keys
   Linking contexts, subject and form in satirical texts
   Recognising writers' attitudes to their subject matter

3. Texts and extracts
   Geoffrey Chaucer from The Canterbury Tales General Prologue
   John Skelton from Colin Clout
   Ben Jonson from The Alchemist
   John Dryden from Absalom and Achitophel
   William Congreve from The Way of the World
   Jonathan Swift - 'A Meditation upon a Broomstick', from Gulliver's Travels & from A Modest Proposal
   Alexander Pope from The Rape of the Lock, from Moral Essays 'Epistle 4 - On the Use of Riches' & from 'Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot'
   William Hogarth - Marriage A-la-Mode 'The Countess's Morning Levee'
   Jane Austen from Northanger Abbey
   Lord Byron from Don Juan
   Charles Dickens from Bleak House
   Arthur Hugh Clough - 'The Latest Decalogue'
   Mark Twain from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
   E.E. Cummings 'next to of course god america i', 'a salesman is an it that stinks Excuse' & 'ygUDuh'
   Evelyn Waugh from Decline and Fall
   Joseph Heller from Catch-22
   Carol Ann Duffy - 'Poet for Our Times' & 'Making Money'
   Steve Bell - 'Righty Ho!'

4. Critical approaches
   What does the word 'reading' mean?
   The writer and the text
   The reader and the text
   Critical approaches in the 20th century
   Critical approaches to some key satirical texts

5. How to write about satirical texts
'The profitable discussion of literature'
Developing your own critical reading and writing

6. Resources
   Satire 'trails'
   Further reading
   Glossary

Index

Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres.

Offering critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres, Cambridge Contexts in Literature supports comparative and contextual study and is ideal for library reference or for building a senior module around a selected title. Each volume has been carefully planned to help students evaluate the influence of literary, cultural and historical contexts on both writers and readers, and includes an anthology of texts and extracts exemplifying key issues.

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