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The Satiric Treatise in Eighteenth-Century Germany

The Satiric Treatise in Eighteenth-Century Germany

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Series: German Studies in America, Book 24

Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 326101931X
ISBN13: 9783261019318
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Dec 31 1977
Pages: 170
Language: English
In Germany during the 18th Century several prose satires were produced that resembled each other in their basic fiction: they all pretended to be sober disquisitions on matters of scholarly concern. The writers in each case achieved their satiric effect by perverting the various formal conventions expected of the learned author. This study examines the wide range of distortive techniques employed by the satirists Liscow, Rabener, Riedel and Hess (among others) in order to define the parameters and suggest the course of development of this unique genre.

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