Techniques of Satire
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Techniques of Satire

The Case of Saltykov-Šcedrin

  1. 236 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Techniques of Satire

The Case of Saltykov-Šcedrin

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Note on citations
  3. Foreword
  4. Chapter one: Targets of satire
  5. 1. Provincial sketches (1856-1857)
  6. 2. Innocent tales (1857-1863), Satires in prose (1859-1862)
  7. 3. Pompadours and pompadouresses (1863-1874)
  8. 4. History of a town (1869-1870)
  9. 5. Gentlemen of Tashkent (1869-1872)
  10. 6. The diary of a provincial in St. Petersburg (1872)
  11. 7. Loyal speeches (1872-1876)
  12. 8. The Golovlyovs (1875-1880)
  13. 9. The sanctuary of Monrepos (1878-1879), The year around (1879), Abroad (1880-1881)
  14. 10. In the environment of moderation and accuracy (1874-1880), Contemporary idyll (1877-1883)
  15. 11. Letters to my auntie (1881-1882), Motley letters (1884-1886), Fairy tales (1869-1886), Stories of Pošexon’e (1885), Trifles of life (1887), The old time in Pošexon’e (1887-1889)
  16. Chapter two: The problem of the comic
  17. 1. Saltykov’s fate in literary criticism
  18. 2. The confusion of the concepts “humor” and “satire”
  19. 3. The double nature of laughter
  20. 4. Defining the concepts “humor”, “satire”, “wit” and “the comic”
  21. 5. Methodology and tasks of this study
  22. Chapter three: Satirical characterization: Non-metaphoric denigration
  23. 1. Infantilization
  24. 2. “Stupefication”
  25. 2.1. Disruptions in the logic of thought and speech
  26. 2.2. Disruptions in the logic of behavior
  27. 3. Physiologization
  28. 3.1. Physical appearance, attractive and unattractive
  29. 3.2. Gluttony
  30. 3.3. Scatological effects
  31. 3.4. Intoxication
  32. 3.5. Sexual pleasure
  33. Chapter four: Satirical characterization: Metaphoric denigration
  34. 1. The human being as animal
  35. 2. The human being as an object
  36. 3. The human being as doll
  37. 3.1. People as dolls
  38. 3.2. Dolls as people
  39. 4. The human being as plant
  40. Chapter five: The comic in language
  41. 1. Plays on the forms of words and set phrases
  42. 1.1. Neologisms
  43. 1.2. The transformation of set phrases and set word combinations
  44. 1.3. Grammatical rupture and macaronics
  45. 1.4. Repetition
  46. 2. Plays on the semantics of words and set phrases
  47. 3. Plays on style
  48. 3.1. Stylistic dissonance
  49. 3.2. Stylization, travesty, and parody
  50. Chapter six: Special cases of the comic
  51. 1. Exaggeration and the grotesque
  52. 2. Comic names
  53. 3. “Apocryphal” appearances of known literary characters
  54. Chapter seven: Conclusion
  55. Notes
  56. References
  57. Index of Saltykov’s works
  58. Name index
  59. Subject index