Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 18 AIL 1710 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Satire as the Century's Weapon
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The idea
The glossary defines satire as poking fun at people and institutions a writer thinks corrupt and in need of change. Unit four distinguished Horatian from Juvenalian on Swift and Fielding. Both are this century's writers, and satire is what the period is best known for.
In practice
The century's characteristic mode.
Where people slip
Unit four supplied the distinction.
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