Animal satire. (2023)
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- Book
- Title:
- Animal satire. (2023)
- Main Title:
- Animal satire
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Robert McKay, Susan McHugh.
- Editors:
- (Lecturer in English literature), McKay, Robert
McHugh, Susan (Susan Bridget) - Contents:
- A Satire by Way of a Preface.1 The Hall of the Sovereigns.Introduction.2 Animal Satire: An Introduction.Part I Drama and Poetry: Animal Satire in Classics, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies.3 Dogs in Court and Sheep in the Assembly: Animal Satire in Aristophanes.4 The 'Battle of the Frogs and Mice' (Batrachomyomachia) and Satire in the Ancient Greco-Roman Tradition.5 Making an Ass of Yourself? The Pointed Comedy of the Mirror for Fools.6 What Can Beast Fables Do in Literary Animal Studies? Ben Jonson's Volpone and the Prehumanist Human.7 'That was a rare experiment of transfusing the blood of a sheep into a mad-man': Animal Experiments and Satirical Knowledge in Thomas Shadwell's The Virtuoso.Satirical Interruption.8 A Slaves' Revolt.Part II Satirical Editorials and Fiction: Early Through High Modernist Studies.9 'A green Parrot for a good Speaker': Writing with a Birds-Eye View in Eliza Haywood's The Parrot.10 The Lacking Satirical Animals of Mary Shelley's The Last Man.11 Learning About Race and Religion with Bob and Felissa: Satire in Nineteenth-Century Children's It-Narratives.12 Nineteenth-Century American Anti-extinction Humour: 'A Polar Whale's Appeal' as Environmentalist Animal Satire.13 Vivisections, Vaccinations, Revelations: Ecofeminist Satire and Biopolitical Dystopia in Frances Power Cobbe's The Age of Science.14 'Wolf within the Fold': Satire and Animality in The Brutalitarian and The Beagler Boy.15 Animals and Animality in Saki's Satirical Short Stories.16A Satire by Way of a Preface.1 The Hall of the Sovereigns.Introduction.2 Animal Satire: An Introduction.Part I Drama and Poetry: Animal Satire in Classics, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies.3 Dogs in Court and Sheep in the Assembly: Animal Satire in Aristophanes.4 The 'Battle of the Frogs and Mice' (Batrachomyomachia) and Satire in the Ancient Greco-Roman Tradition.5 Making an Ass of Yourself? The Pointed Comedy of the Mirror for Fools.6 What Can Beast Fables Do in Literary Animal Studies? Ben Jonson's Volpone and the Prehumanist Human.7 'That was a rare experiment of transfusing the blood of a sheep into a mad-man': Animal Experiments and Satirical Knowledge in Thomas Shadwell's The Virtuoso.Satirical Interruption.8 A Slaves' Revolt.Part II Satirical Editorials and Fiction: Early Through High Modernist Studies.9 'A green Parrot for a good Speaker': Writing with a Birds-Eye View in Eliza Haywood's The Parrot.10 The Lacking Satirical Animals of Mary Shelley's The Last Man.11 Learning About Race and Religion with Bob and Felissa: Satire in Nineteenth-Century Children's It-Narratives.12 Nineteenth-Century American Anti-extinction Humour: 'A Polar Whale's Appeal' as Environmentalist Animal Satire.13 Vivisections, Vaccinations, Revelations: Ecofeminist Satire and Biopolitical Dystopia in Frances Power Cobbe's The Age of Science.14 'Wolf within the Fold': Satire and Animality in The Brutalitarian and The Beagler Boy.15 Animals and Animality in Saki's Satirical Short Stories.16 Satire and Significant Otherness in Virginia Woolf's Flush: A Biography.Satirical Interruption.17 How to Slaughter a Human.Part III Animal Satire in Contemporary Literature, Film and Media Studies.18 'Thanks a lot, big brain': Satirical Misanthropy in Kurt Vonnegut's Galápagos.19 'Dogs are supposed to be able to instinctively live with purpose': Brian, Family Guy, and the Inevitable Anthropocentrism of Satire.20 The Paradox of the Charismatic Pig in The Simpsons Movie and Okja.21 [Sic] Beasts.22 The Satirical Rhetorics of [Re]Tweeting Birds.A Satire by Way of Conclusion.23 The Need for Giant Ape Protection: A Petition to the UNESCO World Heritage Committee.A Grab-bag of Animal Satires.24 A Grab-bag of Animal Satires. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2023
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (400 pages)
- Subjects:
- 809.7
Satire -- History and criticism
Animals in literature - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783031248726
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783031248719
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