The Literature of Satire is an accessible but sophisticated and wide-ranging study of satire from the classics to the present in plays, novels and the press as well as in verse. In it Charles Knight ...

He then discusses primitive and popular forms; and there follow four chapters in satire in verse, in prose, in the novel and in the theatre. Each is historical, ranging from the beginnings of modern ...

Satire and parody are making a return to literature. The same genres that brought you Forbidden Broadway, Hot Shots (Part I and Deux) and the songs of Weird Al Yankovich have come to the written word.

literary and pictorial, racial pre-judgment which deliberately distorts Truth and Justice, as far as colored races are concerned.” Refreshingly, American Fiction departs from some of the more facile ...