Isbn: 9780691064086 - satiric inheritance: rabelais to sterne (princeton legacy library) (4 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition (1979) GOOD+ in a good dust jacket. Has a few underlines on a few pages as well as some minor marginalia. Mostly clean. xiv, 283 pages ; 23 cm. . . . . . . Seidels study of how satire works through narratives of dispensation, succession, and inheritance. Seidel argues that satiric potential is latent in almost any story about transmitting and preserving form - estates, lineages, titles, texts, or cultural authority - and that major narrative satires convert the promise of inheritance into a conspiracy of degeneration. Rather than treating the satirist as a moral spokesman, he presents the satirist as implicated in the very decline he chronicles. After theoretical chapters on the *satiric dispensation* and inheritance as narrative mode, the book reads Rabelais and Cervantes as revisionary ancestors, then tracks the pattern through Butler?s Hudibras, Marvell and Dryden, Swifts A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver?s Travels, Pope?s Rape of the Lock and Dunciad, and Sterne?s Tristram Shandy.…

Zustand: Good. 8vo. 283 pp. Very Good, Orange Cloth, Dust Jacket, with small tears, rubbing, mold, sun-fading, & edge wear; shelf wear.

Zustand: Very Good. Light wear & tanning to the jacket, faded spine. Content is very good & clean.

Zustand: New.