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An edition of Essays in satire (1928)

Essays in satire.

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The quality is variable, but the best of the essays are very good indeed. (I say "essays" because it is the title of the book, but some of them are not proper essays in format.) I got a number of good laughs out of "The Authorship of 'In Memoriam'" in particular, and the Sherlock Holmes essay is justly famous. The jabs at liberal Protestants are all too relevant today--one imagines Knox could've had great fun with all the politically correct idiocy that lot continue to churn out. Unfortunately, a number of the essays are simply variations on the same joke (but as modern critical philosophies tend to be something of a joke anyway, I suppose it's acceptable to milk it for all it's worth). The enjoyment of many of them is dependent on one already being familiar with the source material.

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Kennikat Press
Language
English
Pages
287

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1968, Kennikat Press
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1954, Sheed and Ward
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1930, Sheed and Ward
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Table of Contents

Introduction: on humour and satire.
Reunion all round.
Absolute and abitofhell.
A new cure for religion.
The new sin.
Studies in the literature of Sherlock Holmes.
A ramble in Barsetshire.
The identity of the pseudo-Bunyan.
The authorship of "In memoriam".
Materials for a Boswellian problem.
Jottings from a psycho-analyst's note-book.
A forgotten interlude.

Edition Notes

Reprint of 1928 ed.

Published in
Port Washington, N.Y

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
824/.9/12
Library of Congress
PR6021.N6 E7 1968

The Physical Object

Pagination
287 p.
Number of pages
287

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5617777M
Internet Archive
essaysinsatire00knox
LCCN
68026297
OCLC/WorldCat
367071

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