The Fictions of Satire

by Ronald Paulson and Professor Ronald Paulson

Book Overview

Originally published in 1967. In this study of the English Augustan satirists, and the Roman and subsequent authors who were their models, Professor Paulson shows how rhetoric relates to imitation, persuasion to presentation, and the imitation of the satirist to the imitation of the satiric object. He illustrates the tendency of the satirist to invade his own fiction and imitate not the prime object of his satire but the satiric persona, which...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421430576
• ISBN13: 9781421430577
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"