396 Pages
by Routledge

396 Pages
by Routledge

393 Pages
by Routledge

Satire takes as its subject the absurdity of human beings, their societies, and the institutions they create. For centuries, satirists themselves, scholars, critics, and psychologists have speculated about the satirist's reasons for writing, temperament, and place in society. The conclusions they have reached are sometimes contradictory, sometimes complementary, sometimes outlandish. In this... Read more
One: Motivation; 1: Creativity; 2: Morality; 3: Compensation; 4: Adjustment; Two: Personality; 5: The Satiric Type; 6: Characteristics; 7: Psychoanalysis; 8: Development; Three: Influence; 9: Beliefs; 10: Relation To Environment; Four: Established Writers and Novices; 11: Writers of Satire; 12: The Amateur

Biography

Theodore Draper