{"product_id":"satire-in-narrative-petronius-swift-gibbon-melville-pynchon-paperback","title":"Satire in Narrative: Petronius, Swift, Gibbon, Melville, \u0026 Pynchon - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrank Palmeri\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVirtually all theories of satire define it as a criticism of contemporary society. Some argue that satire criticizes the present in favor of a standard of values that has been superseded, and thus that satire is generally backward-looking and conservative. While this is often true of poetic satire, in this study Frank Palmeri asserts that narrative satire performs a different function, that it parodies both the established view of the world and that of its opponents, offering its own distinctive critical perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis theory of satire builds on the idea of dialogical parody in the work of Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, while revising Bakhtin's estimate of carnival. In Palmeri's view, the carnivalesque offers only an inverted mirror image of authoritative discourse, while parodic narrative satire suggests an alternative to both the official world and its inverted opposite.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePalmeri applies this theory of narrative satire to five works of world literature, each of which has generated sharp controversy about the genre to which it rightly belongs: Petronius' \u003ci\u003eSatyricon\u003c\/i\u003e, Jonathan Swift's \u003ci\u003eA Tale of a Tub\u003c\/i\u003e, Edward Gibbon's \u003ci\u003eDecline and Fall of the Roman Empire\u003c\/i\u003e, Herman Melville's \u003ci\u003eThe Confidence-Man\u003c\/i\u003e, and Thomas Pynchon's \u003ci\u003eThe Crying of Lot 49\u003c\/i\u003e. He analyzes the features that link these works and shows how the changing pairs of alternatives that are parodied in these satires reflect changes in the terms of social and cultural oppositions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSatire in Narrative\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to comparatists, specialists in eighteenth-century and American literature, and others interested in theories of genre and the relations between literary forms and social history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 195\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45308678668390,"sku":"9780292741508","price":44.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/N0NUaHZ3SDV1dU5lTERVZW9PTkw4QT09.webp?v=1774187429","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/satire-in-narrative-petronius-swift-gibbon-melville-pynchon-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}