English 362 - SEM: SATIRE:EXECUTION BY WORDS
Fall
2014
01
4.00
Nora Crow
Th 01:00-02:50
Smith College
20407-F14
WRIGHT 238
ncrow@smith.edu
A consideration of theoretical problems (definitions of satire, responses to satire, satiric strategies) followed by a study of the development of satire from Horace and Juvenal through Shakespeare, Swift, Pope, Austen, and Byron to Waugh, West and Vonnegut. Some attention will be given to differences between male and female satirists.
Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores