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This module looks at techniques and traditions of satirical writing from ancient times to the present day. Acknowledging the contrasting legacies of “moral” satire offered by the Latin poets Horace and Juvenal, the great age of Augustan satire will be treated - involving detailed studies of Dryden, Swift and Pope. The redeployment of satirical techniques and preoccupations taking advantage of new literary and media forms in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries will sponsor a discussion of what essential or definitional qualities of satire may be said to persist and evolve over long periods of time. Political, literary, and personal satires will be considered within this module that intends to consider a range of authorial positions, from passionate outrage at national, international, and cosmic injustices to affectionate pastiches that may or may not have any reformative/transformative agenda.
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