EXAM - English literature 2
mock-heroic, the burlesque and travesty as well as simple imitation.
Generally free use of conversational language, humour, vividness, concreteness of description, topical
subjects, general intention of improving society by exposing its vices and follies.
Jonathan Swift: combined parody, with its imitation of form and style and satire in prose; technique to
create fictional speaker (Gulliver), utter sentiments which intelligent reader recognises as self-satisfied,
egoistical, stupid. Master of understaded irony. Gulliver’s Travels (greatest of satires). Fashionable guise of
travel book, ship surgeon, fantastic locasions, liliput island (pompous habits of liliputs satirised). The
Battle of the Books – mimics the style of excitable journalism in a debate on the relative merits of the
ancients as against the moderns in literature, fought between Bee and Spider. A Tale of a Tub – personates a
madman, satire on „corruption in religion and learning”.
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