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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Satires"”.
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The senses and synaesthesia in Horace's Satires
This study observes Horace’s Satires (Book 1 published c. 36-35 BCE, and Book 2 c. 30 BCE) through a lens of the body’s senses and organs involved in perception (eyes, ears, noses, mouths, hands, and tongues). Horace manipulates a multitude of bodies throughout his poetry, each contributing a …
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"Ben Jonson's Comical Satires And ""vetus Comoedia."""
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Poetic irony in Thomas Hardy's Satires of Circumstance.
… to narrative as a format for analyzing Hardy's Satires of Circumstances: Lyrics and Reveries, the volume chronologically and critically at the center of his poetical writing. Embedded in the book are two sequences of poems, "Poems of 1912-13" and "Satires of Circumstance in Fifteen Glimpses," …
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The art of rank: a revaluation of John Dryden's satires
The three major satires by the seventeenth-century poet John Dryden are reassessed for their mutual similarities to literature with burlesque elements. Focusing on his greatest satire, "Absalom and Achitophel ," this study shows Dryden's political, intellectual, and literary appropriateness for …
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Burlesque Natural Philosophers: Eighteenth-Century Satires of Science and Social Innovation
… the socio-political underpinnings of the satires about science that proliferated in British literature from 1660 to 1800. Most scholarship on the topic assumes that frequent literary assaults reflected a prevailing scepticism about science, and this assumption continues to prejudice …
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A translation of the satires of Lucilius (based on the edition of Marx)
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University
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Satur(n◆alic◆i)a Regna: The Neronian Grotesque and the Satires of Seneca, Persiuis, and Petronius
<p>Persius, Petronius, and Seneca are often seen as "satirizing" Nero. It's common to read satire as moral critique, and who better to criticize than (Suetonius and Tacitus' construction of) Nero? But looking at the satire from a non-‐classical perspective, that of Bakhtin's grotesque, leads to an …
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Satire as Apologia: An Analysis of the Chief Modes of Rhetorical Proof Inthe Apologetic Satires of Alexander Pope
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The growth and development of American satire: 1630-1895
… a tolerance for human frailty unthinkable in the satires of the great Augustans. This thesis traces the growth and development of American satire from its beginnings in the Colonial period to the end of the nineteenth century. The period encompasses both a change in the understanding of the word …
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Horace in dialogue : a Bakhtinian study of speakers, interlocutors, addressees and audiences in the moralising satires of horace sermones books one and two
… a selection of poems from both books of Horace's Satires against a backdrop of the dialogic theoretical system conceptualised by the Russian thinker Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975). The thesis proposes examining Horatian satire or sermo, as Horace himself termed his genre, as the …
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La fable comme dixième 'forme simple' : une étude comparative du "Crépuscule des loups" de Jean Dutourd avec les "Fables" correspondantes de Jean de La Fontaine
… for the "Crepuscule des 10 ups", a collection of satires by Jean Dutourd. I analyzed 12 of these satires, along with the 12 corresponding fables, to establish the procedure for the transformation of the "Fables" and to examine the fmal result. I based myself on Jolles' theory of Simple Forms …
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The Invisibility of Juvenal
This dissertation offers a reading of Juvenal's Satires. It maintains that Juvenal consciously frustrates readers' attempts to identify his poetic voice with a single unitary character or persona. At the same time, it argues that Juvenal's poems are influenced in both form and theme by cultural …
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Metamodern Satire in Contemporary American Literature and Television
… of satire must be developed to account for satires existing in the liminal space between modernism and postmodernism. To exemplify this mode, this study includes literature from the 2000s, Percival Everett’s Erasure and George Saunders’s “Brad Carrigan, American,” as well as television …
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The Revolution Will Not Be Satirised: The Revolutionary Potential of Stephen Leacock’s Satire
… valid, it appears that Leacock’s two greatest satires failed to spawn revolutionary change, but succeeded in diagnosing intractable human conditions.
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"Baits for curious tasts" : the Gothic as a heuristic in the poetics of Andrew Marvell
… blame found in both Marvell's panegyrics and his satires and juxtapose the resulting ambivalence with the poet's interest in the interconnectedness of political and aesthetic issues. Special attention to Marvell's grotesque imagery, his use of emblems, and their correlation to the poet's anonymous …
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Richard Pace on pedagogy, counsel and satire.
… claimed authorship of one of the most notorious satires of the sixteenth century, the anonymously issued Julius exclusus, which at that time was being attributed to Erasmus despite his vehement denials. Chapter 3 focuses on Pace 's discussion of counsel and council in the De Jructu. Based in …
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Stripped down and flawed : demystifying journalism heroes and villains on film in the 1970s and 2010s
… of real life journalists and fictionalized satires of journalism.
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To what extent does Horace present a coherent præceptor persona in the Ars poetica?
… of the Praeceptor'. To this end I turn to the Satires of Horace, particularly, 1.1, 1.4, and 1.10, where I show that the Horatian model of a praeceptor can be explained through three conceptual criteria – 'instruction ', 'demonstration', and 'play'. Applying in turn each of these three …
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