Intricate Laughter in the Satire of Swift and PopeMacmillan, 1986 - 206 sidor While the eighteenth century was a period in which satire flourished, many eighteenth-century writers felt considerable unease about the form, and about the laughter it produced. This book explores the intricate effects of satiric laughter, taking as its focus the satire of swift and Pope. Laughter is a weapon which excludes its victim not only from society but from the state of being human. At the same time laughter can achieve and strengthen group identity for those who are engaged in laughing, it is also frequently used as a weapon within society. The satirist, in encouraging laughter, reactivates and legitimizes his reader's childhood sense of play in order to secure endorsement of the satiric attack. The greatest satire however, transcends personal attack and brings the reader to affirm, through laughter, belief in the abiding worth of humankind. |
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... truth - test which Shaftesbury had proposed at the very outset of his letter . Speaking of the validity or otherwise of opinions , he attempts to distinguish between ' sacred truths ' and ' monsters ' . We may be imposed upon , he says ...
... truth - test which Shaftesbury had proposed at the very outset of his letter . Speaking of the validity or otherwise of opinions , he attempts to distinguish between ' sacred truths ' and ' monsters ' . We may be imposed upon , he says ...
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Allan Ingram. truth , may even present a lucid and plausible discourse , but inwardly he is only a poor madman whose judgment is so distorted that he makes ' so singular a truth ' from an ' untruth " and thinks himself God Almighty as he ...
Allan Ingram. truth , may even present a lucid and plausible discourse , but inwardly he is only a poor madman whose judgment is so distorted that he makes ' so singular a truth ' from an ' untruth " and thinks himself God Almighty as he ...
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... truth , he suggests in his final chapter , has been throughout of paramount importance in the performance of his task . Thus , gentle Reader , I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years , and above Seven Months ...
... truth , he suggests in his final chapter , has been throughout of paramount importance in the performance of his task . Thus , gentle Reader , I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years , and above Seven Months ...
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Laughter | 40 |
Laughter in Society | 82 |
The Playground of the Mind | 118 |
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