Apr 26, 2024

2015-2016 Academic Catalog

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ENGL 135 SC - The Satirical Imagination

Exploration of the long tradition of satire: literature dedicated to exposing folly, hypocrisy, and human error, and to holding them up for ridicule. Focus on the crucial era of English satire, the eighteenth century, especially Swift and Pope. Consideration also of the history of satire, its forms in twentieth-century English fiction and contemporary popular culture, and its moral and political uses and implications.

Instructor: A. Matz
Course Credit: 1.0

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