Author:
Fitz Gerald, Gregory, 1923- comp.
Imprint:Glenview, IL : Scott, Foresman, [1971]
Descriptionvi, 472 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Note:SATIRIC ALLEGORIES: The top / George Sumner Albee. - The ape / V.S. Pritchett. -- ANTIUTOPIAN AND SCIENCE FICTION SATIRES: Something strange / Kingsley Amis. - By the waters of Babylon / Stephen Vincent Benét. - Year nine / Cyril Connolly. - The NRACP / George P. Elliott. - Learning theory / James V. McConnell. -- FANTASTIC AND GROTESQUE SATIRES: Another American tragedy / John Collier. - The law / Robert Coates. - The Schartz-Metterklume method / H.H. Munro [Saki]. - Good country people / Flannery O'Connor. - Low-lands / Thomas Pynchon. - A visit of charity / Eudora Welty. - Totentanz / Angus Wilson. - The hour of letdown / E.B. White. -- SATIRIC REALISM: The rebel / Joyce Cary. - Reverend Father Gilhooley / James T. Farrell. - Appearance and reality / W. Somerset Maugham. - 'Cruel and barbarous treatment' / Mary McCarthy. - Persecution mania / Sean O'Faolain. - The valiant woman / J.F. Powers.-- SATIRIC MONOLOGUES: To whom it may concern / Elisabeth Mann Borgese. - A caddy's diary / Ring Lardner. - The visionary / H.L. Mencken. - The waltz / Dorothy Parker. - Master Richard / John Wain. - Cruise / Evelyn Waugh. -- SATIRIC PARODIES: The idol's eye / S.J. Perelman. - The little girl and the wolf / James Thurber. - Death opens the mail / Ira Wallach.
Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 453-472.
