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Satiric inheritance : Rabelais to Sterne / Michael Seidel

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Seidel, Michael, 1943-
Published
Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1979.
Copyright Date
©1979
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1 online resource (300 pages).
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Chapter One: The Satiric Dispensation -- Chapter Two: Inheritance and Narrative Mode -- Chapter Three: The Revisionary Inheritance: Rabelais and Cervantes -- Chapter Four: The Internecine Romance: Butler's Hndibras -- Chapter Five: A House Divided: Marvell'sLast Instructions and Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel -- Chapter Six: Fathers and Sons: Swift's A Tale of A Tub -- Chapter Seven: Strange Dispositions: Swift's Gulliver's Travels -- Chapter Eight: Things Unborn: Pope's The Rape of the Lock and The Dunciad -- Chapter Nine: Gravity's Inheritable Line: Sterne's Tristram Shandy -- CODICIL -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- Backmatter
Summary
Arguing that satiric potential is latent in virtually all dispensation, succession, and inheritance narratives, Michael Seidel suggests a new and comprehensive understanding of satire's place in the more general context of narrative theory. The notion of inheritance shares with traditional narrative action the need to transmit and preserve form. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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9781400871032 (electronic bk.)
1400871034 (electronic bk.)
9780691615677
9780691064086
0691615675
0691064083
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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