Animal Satire

Author : Robert McKay,Susan McHugh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031248726

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Animal Satire by Robert McKay,Susan McHugh Pdf

Animal Satire presents a cultural history of animal satire, a critically neglected but persistent presence in the history of cultural production, in which animals expose human folly while the strategies of satire expose the folly of human-animal relations. Highlighting the teeming animal presences across the history of satirical expression from Aristophanes to Twitter, with chapters on key works of literature, drama, film, and a plethora of satirical media, Animal Satire reveals the rich rhetorical significance of animality in powering the politics of satire from ancient and medieval through modern and contemporary times. More pressingly, the book makes the case for the significance of satire for understanding the real-world implications of rhetoric about animals in ongoing struggles for justice. By gathering both critical and creative examples from representative media forms, historical periods, and continents, this volume aims to enrich scholarship on the history of satire as well as empower creative practitioners with ideas about its practical applications today.

Author : Karen L. Ryan
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299234430

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Stalin in Russian Satire, 1917–1991 by Karen L. Ryan Pdf

During Stalin’s lifetime the crimes of his regime were literally unspeakable. More than fifty years after his death, Russia is still coming to terms with Stalinism and the people’s own role in the abuses of the era. During the decades of official silence that preceded the advent of glasnost, Russian writers raised troubling questions about guilt, responsibility, and the possibility of absolution. Through the subtle vehicle of satire, they explored the roots and legacy of Stalinism in forms ranging from humorous mockery to vitriolic diatribe. Examining works from the 1917 Revolution to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Karen L. Ryan reveals how satirical treatments of Stalin often emphasize his otherness, distancing him from Russian culture. Some satirists portray Stalin as a madman. Others show him as feminized, animal-like, monstrous, or diabolical. Stalin has also appeared as the unquiet dead, a spirit that keeps returning to haunt the collective memory of the nation. While many writers seem anxious to exorcise Stalin from the body politic, for others he illuminates the self in disturbing ways. To what degree Stalin was and is “in us” is a central question of all these works. Although less visible than public trials, policy shifts, or statements of apology, Russian satire has subtly yet insistently participated in the protracted process of de-Stalinization.

Author : Meredith McNeill Hale
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192573315

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The Birth of Modern Political Satire by Meredith McNeill Hale Pdf

Political satire has been a primary weapon of the press since the eighteenth century and is still intimately associated with one of the most important values of western democratic society: the right of individuals to free speech. This study documents one of the most important moments in the history of printed political imagery, when political print became what we would recognise as modern political satire. Contrary to conventional historical and art historical narratives, which place the emergence of political satire in the news-driven coffee-house culture of eighteenth-century London, Meredith M. Hale locates the birth of the genre in the late seventeenth-century Netherlands in the contentious political milieu surrounding William III's invasion of England known as the 'Glorious Revolution'. The satires produced between 1688 and 1690 by the Dutch printmaker Romeyn de Hooghe on the events surrounding William III's campaigns against James II and Louis XIV establish many of the qualities that define the genre to this day: the transgression of bodily boundaries; the interdependence of text and image; the centrality of dialogic text to the generation of meaning; serialized production; and the emergence of the satirist as a primary participant in political discourse. This study, the first in-depth analysis of De Hooghe's satires since the nineteenth century, considers these prints as sites of cultural influence and negotiation, works that both reflected and helped to construct a new relationship between the government and the governed.

Author : Jonathan Greenberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781107030183

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The Cambridge Introduction to Satire by Jonathan Greenberg Pdf

Provides a comprehensive overview for both beginning and advanced students of satiric forms from ancient poetry to contemporary digital media.

Author : Norman Furlong
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Satire, English
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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English Satire by Norman Furlong Pdf

Author : Matthew Hodgart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351492126

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Satire by Matthew Hodgart Pdf

Satire, according to Jonathan Swift, is a mirror where beholders generally discover everybody's face but their own. and over twenty-four centuries the mirror of satirical literature has taken on many shapes. Yet certain techniques recur continually, certain themes are timeless, and some targets are perennial. Politics (the mismanagement of men by other men) has always been a target of satire, as has the war between sexes.The universality of satire as a mode and creative impulse is demonstrated by the cross-cultural development of lampoon and travesty. Its deep roots and variety are shown by the persistence of allegory, fable, aphorism, and other literary subgenres. Hodgart analyzes satire at some of its most exuberant moments in Western literature, from Aristophanes to Brecht. His analysis is supplemented by a selection and discussion of prints and cartoons.Satire continues to help us make sense of the conventions that seem to have been almost genetically transmitted from their satiric ancestors to our digital contemporaries. This is especially evident in Hodgart's repeated references to satire's predilection for the ephemeral, for camouflaging itself among the everyday, for speaking to the moment, and thus for integrating itself as deeply as possible into society. Brian Connery's new introduction places Hodgart's analysis in its proper place in the development of twentieth-century criticism.

Author : Emil A. Draitser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110875928

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Techniques of Satire by Emil A. Draitser Pdf

Author : Catherine Arne
Publisher : Out of the Box Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1734800305

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Animals, Inc. by Catherine Arne Pdf

An Animal Farm for the 21st Century, the slyly subversive political satire, Animals, Inc. takes aim at corporations, consumerism, and "predatory" capitalism gone awry, exploring the relatively harmless inanities of the contemporary business world, but also its darker side. The plot follows a lively group of animals as they try to prevent their small family farm from being bought out by the neighboring factory farm after the death of their beloved owner. Led by a clever and forward-looking raven named Poe, the animals believe they can design an "animal-friendly" corporation that is profitable while avoiding the grisly practices of the human-run industrial farms. Despite many misadventures and near catastrophes, it appears-against all odds-their incredible enterprise just might succeed. But when a conniving raccoon installs himself as Chairman of Animal Inc.'s Board of Directors profit is made the yardstick of success, Poe is torn between succumbing to the temptations of money and greed, and staying true to the original vision of a farm of the animals, by the animals and for the animals.

Author : P. Beirne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137447210

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Hogarth’s Art of Animal Cruelty by P. Beirne Pdf

This book analyses the animal images used in William Hogarth's art, demonstrating how animals were variously depicted as hybrids, edibles, companions, emblems of satire and objects of cruelty. Beirne offers an important assessment of how Hogarth's various audiences reacted to his gruesome images and ultimately what was meant by 'cruelty'.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Aegitas
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780369406361

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Animal Farm by George Orwell Pdf

Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon. According to Orwell, the fable reflects events leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1917 and then on into the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union. Orwell, a democratic socialist, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and hostile to Moscow-directed Stalinism, an attitude that was critically shaped by his experiences during the May Days conflicts between the POUM and Stalinist forces during the Spanish Civil War. The Soviet Union had become a totalitarian autocracy built upon a cult of personality while engaging in the practice of mass incarcerations and secret summary trials and executions. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as a satirical tale against Stalin ("un conte satirique contre Staline"), and in his essay "Why I Write" (1946), wrote that Animal Farm was the first book in which he tried, with full consciousness of what he was doing, "to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole". The original title was Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, but U.S. publishers dropped the subtitle when it was published in 1946, and only one of the translations during Orwell's lifetime kept it. Other titular variations include subtitles like "A Satire" and "A Contemporary Satire". Orwell suggested the title Union des républiques socialistes animales for the French translation, which abbreviates to URSA, the Latin word for "bear", a symbol of Russia. It also played on the French name of the Soviet Union, Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques.

Author : Caroline Korf
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783638065658

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George Orwell's Animal Farm by Caroline Korf Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Würzburg (Neuphilologisches Institut), course: Pastoral Novels in English, 9 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: George Orwell's story about the rebellion of farm animals chasing all humans from the farm and running the farm by their own power is well known by readers all over the world. This seminar paper will research why George Orwell wrote Animal Farm as a fable based in a rural, English landscape. After a short biography about the author, the reader will be introduced into the meaning of fable and satire for the story and get an idea why the setting in a rural English scenery is meaningful to Orwell.

Author : Ruben Quintero
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405171991

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A Companion to Satire by Ruben Quintero Pdf

This collection of twenty-nine original essays, surveys satire fromits emergence in Western literature to the present. Tracks satire from its first appearances in the prophetic booksof the Old Testament through the Renaissance and the Englishtradition in satire to Michael Moore’s satirical movieFahrenheit 9/11. Highlights the important influence of the Bible in the literaryand cultural development of Western satire. Focused mainly on major classical and European influences onand works of English satire, but also explores the complex andfertile cultural cross-semination within the tradition of literarysatire.

Author : Aaron Matz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139488310

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Satire in an Age of Realism by Aaron Matz Pdf

As nineteenth-century realism became more and more intrepid in its pursuit of describing and depicting everyday life, it blurred irrevocably into the caustic and severe mode of literature better named satire. Realism's task of portraying the human became indistinguishable from satire's directive to castigate the human. Introducing an entirely new way of thinking about realism and the Victorian novel, Aaron Matz refers to the fusion of realism and satire as 'satirical realism': it is a mode in which our shared folly and error are so entrenched in everyday life, and so unchanging, that they need no embellishment when rendered in fiction. Focusing on the novels of Eliot, Hardy, Gissing, and Conrad, and the theater of Ibsen, Matz argues that it was the transformation of Victorian realism into satire that granted it immense moral authority, but that led ultimately to its demise.

Author : William S. Anderson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781400853151

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Essays on Roman Satire by William S. Anderson Pdf

Irvine Anderson carefully reconstructs the years between 1933 and 1950 and provides a case study of the evolution of U.S. foreign oil policy and of the complex relationships between the U.S. government and the business world. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Alvin B. Kernan
Publisher : Harcourt Brace College Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Humor
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045021206

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Modern Satire by Alvin B. Kernan Pdf