Contemporary British satire and the problem of Jonathan Swift’s personae

Contemporary British satire and the problem of Jonathan Swift’s personae

This essay brings the example of Jonathan Swift’s literary personae to bear on current trends in satirical culture. A number of recent commentators have written of a crisis in contemporary British satire. They invoke Horkheimer and Adorno’s theory that comedy supports power interests which it purpo...

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Main Author: John Stubbs
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculy of Arts) 2020-06-01
Series:Ars & Humanitas
Subjects:
satire
rhetoric
persona
Swift
Quintilian
Boris Johnson
Online Access:https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/arshumanitas/article/view/9358

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