Teaching Modern British and American Satire (Options for Teaching #45)

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Synopsis
This volume addresses the teaching of satire written in English over the past three hundred years. For instructors covering current satire, it suggests ways to enrich students' understanding of voice, irony, and rhetoric and to explore the questions of how to define satire and how to determine what its ultimate aims are. For instructors teaching older satire, it demonstrates ways to help students gain knowledge of historical context, medium, and audience, while addressing more specific literary questions of technique and form. Readers will discover ways to introduce students to authors such as Swift and Twain, to techniques such as parody and verbal irony, and to the difficult subject of satire's offensiveness and elitism. This volume also helps teachers of a wide variety of courses, from composition to gateway courses and surveys, think about how to use modern satire in conceiving and structuring them.
Copyright:
2019

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
374 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781603293815
Related ISBNs:
9781603293808
Publisher:
Modern Language Association of America
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Routledge, reproduced by permission of Taylor and Francis Books UK.
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Education, Language Arts, Humor
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Evan R. Davis
Edited by:
Nicholas D. Nace

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