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Apr 23, 2024
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ENG 3395 - Satire in Literature
Credit(s): 3
This course is an introduction to the vast and varied genre of satire, tracing origins to Old Comedy and Roman Verse satire, tracing satire theory from classical models up through 20th-century structuralism and postmodern theory. We’ll study Aristophanes, Horace and Juvenal, Menippean satire of Lucian and Petronius, bits of Rabelais, Chaucer, Donne, Butler and Marvell, as well as whole works from neoclassic masters Alexander Pope, John Dryden and Jonathan Swift. As satire has evolved in the last two centuries into a predominately narrative, not verse, form, we’ll study a number of anti-utopian novels such as Animal Farm, Brave New World, Memoirs From a Bathtub, as well as view Metropolis and Modern Times as cinematic satires.
Prerequisites: ENG 1072 ; and one of the following courses: ENG 1310 , ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322 or ENG 2510
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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