Teaching Modern British And American Satire

Author : Evan R. Davis,Nicholas D. Nace
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603293815

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Teaching Modern British and American Satire by Evan R. Davis,Nicholas D. Nace Pdf

This volume addresses the teaching of satire written in English over the past three hundred years. For instructors covering current satire, it suggests ways to enrich students' understanding of voice, irony, and rhetoric and to explore the questions of how to define satire and how to determine what its ultimate aims are. For instructors teaching older satire, it demonstrates ways to help students gain knowledge of historical context, medium, and audience, while addressing more specific literary questions of technique and form. Readers will discover ways to introduce students to authors such as Swift and Twain, to techniques such as parody and verbal irony, and to the difficult subject of satire's offensiveness and elitism. This volume also helps teachers of a wide variety of courses, from composition to gateway courses and surveys, think about how to use modern satire in conceiving and structuring them.

Author : Amanda Hiner,Elizabeth Tasker Davis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108837361

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British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century by Amanda Hiner,Elizabeth Tasker Davis Pdf

Featuring cutting-edge essays by leading scholars, this collection formulates a new feminist theory of eighteenth-century women's satire.

Author : Evan R. Davis,Nicholas D. Nace
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781770485907

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The Broadview Anthology of British Satire, 1660-1750 by Evan R. Davis,Nicholas D. Nace Pdf

The Broadview Anthology of British Satire, 1660-1750 provides instructors and students with a thorough introduction to the highpoint of British literary satire. Reflecting current pedagogical practice and scholarship, the anthology presents works by thirty satirists, including eleven women. The contents are expansive: they include canonical, frequently taught texts, less anthologized works by major satirists, and works by writers who have been traditionally excluded from anthologies. Biographical headnotes, crisp footnotes, and carefully edited texts make the book suitable for use in both undergraduate and graduate classrooms. By turns raucous, piercing, acerbic, winking, vexatious, and sly, the satires in the anthology will provoke fresh, dynamic approaches to this crucial literary period.

Author : Kirk Combe
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000289831

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Speculative Satire in Contemporary Literature and Film by Kirk Combe Pdf

Since 1980, when neoliberal and neoconservative forces began their hostile takeover of western culture, a new type of political satire has emerged that works to unmask and deter those toxic doctrines. Literary and cultural critic Kirk Combe calls this new form of satire the Rant. The Rant is grim, highly imaginative, and complex in its blending of genres. It mixes facets of satire, science fiction, and monster tale to produce widely consumed spectacles—major studio movies, popular television/streaming series, bestselling novels—designed to disturb and to provoke. The Rant targets what Combe calls the Regime. Simply put, the Regime is the sum of the dangerous social, economic, and political orthodoxies spurred on by neoliberal and neoconservative polity. Such practices include free-market capitalism, corporatism, militarism, religiosity, imperialism, racism, patriarchy, and so on. In the Rant, then, we have a unique and wholly contemporary genre of political expression and protest: speculative satire.

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 : James E. Caron
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780271090351

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Satire as the Comic Public Sphere by James E. Caron Pdf

Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, John Oliver, and Jimmy Kimmel—these comedians are household names whose satirical takes on politics, the news, and current events receive some of the highest ratings on television. In this book, James E. Caron examines these and other satirists through the lenses of humor studies, cultural theory, and rhetorical and social philosophy, arriving at a new definition of the comic art form. Tracing the history of modern satire from its roots in the Enlightenment values of rational debate, evidence, facts, accountability, and transparency, Caron identifies a new genre: “truthiness satire.” He shows how satirists such as Colbert, Bee, Oliver, and Kimmel—along with writers like Charles Pierce and Jack Shafer—rely on shared values and on the postmodern aesthetics of irony and affect to foster engagement within the comic public sphere that satire creates. Using case studies of bits, parodies, and routines, Caron reveals a remarkable process: when evidence-based news reporting collides with a discursive space asserting alternative facts, the satiric laughter that erupts can move the audience toward reflection and possibly even action as the body politic in the public sphere. With rigor, humor, and insight, Caron shows that truthiness satire pushes back against fake news and biased reporting and that the satirist today is at heart a citizen, albeit a seemingly silly one. This book will appeal to anyone interested in and concerned about public discourse in the current era, especially researchers in media studies, communication studies, political science, and literary and cultural studies.

Author : British Academy Global Professor Robert Morrison,Robert Morrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 993 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-09-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780198834540

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The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose by British Academy Global Professor Robert Morrison,Robert Morrison Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of British Romantic Prose is a full-length essay collection devoted entirely to British Romantic nonfiction prose. Organized into eight parts, each containing between five and nine chapters arranged alphabetically, the Handbook weaves together familiar and unfamiliar texts, events, and authors, and invites readers to draw comparisons, reimagine connections and disconnections, and confront frequently stark contradictions, within British Romantic nonfiction prose, but also in its relationship to British Romanticism more generally, and to the literary practices and cultural contexts of other periods and countries. The Handbook builds on previous scholarship in the field, considers emerging trends and evolving methodologies, and suggests future areas of study. Throughout the emphasis is on lucid expression rather than gnomic declaration, and on chapters that offer, not a dutiful survey, but evaluative assessments that keep an eye on the bigger picture yet also dwell meaningfully on specific paradoxes and the most telling examples. Taken as a whole the volume demonstrates the energy, originality, and diversity at the crux of British Romantic nonfiction prose. It vigorously challenges the traditional construction of the British Romantic movement as focused too exclusively on the accomplishments of its poets, and it reveals the many ways in which scholars of the period are steadily broadening out and opening up delineations of British Romanticism in order to encompass and thoroughly evaluate the achievements of its nonfiction prose writers.

Author : Kevin L. Cope
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611463309

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Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment by Kevin L. Cope Pdf

Seeking to honor and extend the critical legacy of Howard Weinbrot, this volume re-examines, rebuilds, and upgrades the most prominent pillars of long eighteenth-century scholarship. The collection is divided into four thematic sections, beginning with a series of chapters offering fresh analyses of Swift, Dryden, Hogarth, and other major authors and artists of the period. In the sections that follow, the contributors not only explore biographies of both highly esteemed figures and notorious deviants, but also investigate the very concept of Enlightenment as it has evolved from the eighteenth century to today. The final section features chapters that probe the complex interaction of identity, persona, and place, traversing the countless locales in which the British—and the international—eighteenth century emerged. The volume ultimately covers a range of experience that extends from the gallows to the landscape garden and from heroic antiquity to Romantic-era France. Juxtaposing the local and particular against the grand and universal, Howard Weinbrot and the Precincts of Enlightenment testifies to the complexity and ongoing significance of eighteenth-century culture.

Author : Nathan Waddell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781108841092

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The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four by Nathan Waddell Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four is aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates, and academics. Situating the novel in multiple frameworks, including contextual considerations and literary histories, the book asks new questions about the novel's significance in an age in which authoritarianism finds itself freshly empowered.

Author : David Joseph Dooley
Publisher : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036793714

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Contemporary Satire by David Joseph Dooley Pdf

Author : Mary Ann Rooks
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781443816083

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Teaching the Eighteenth Century by Mary Ann Rooks Pdf

Inspired by the conversations of like-minded professors interested in promoting eighteenth-century literature through informed, innovative teaching, this collection began as a series of presentations at the South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference. Covering a range of texts and strategies—from a genre-based approach to early novels, to an argument for student-teacher collaboration engaging Shen Fu’s Six Records of a Floating Life—the collection aims to participate in larger conversations about the “best practices” of teaching eighteenth-century texts in the undergraduate classroom. With an eye toward energizing further pedagogical dialogue about this important period, the authors share a wealth of experience and practical advice about the joys and pitfalls of teaching Western and non-Western texts to students relatively unfamiliar with early-modern literature.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006280866

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)

Author : Bev Hogue
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603296168

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Teaching Comedy by Bev Hogue Pdf

From Shakespeare to The Simpsons, comedy has long provided both entertainment and social commentary. It may critique cultural values, undermine authority, satirize sacred beliefs, and make room for the marginalized to approach the center. Comedy can be challenging to teach, but in the classroom it can help students connect with one another, develop critical thinking skills, and engage with important issues. The essays in this volume address a rich variety of texts spanning film, television, stand-up, cartoons, and memes as well as conventional literary works from different places and times. Contributors offer theoretical foundations and practical methods for a broad range of courses, including guidance on contextualizing the humor of historical works and on navigating the ways that comedy can both subvert and reinforce stereotypes. Finally, the volume argues for the value of comedy in difficult times, as a way to create community and meaning. This volume contains discussion of fiction, poetry, plays, and essays by Maya Angelou, Jane Austen, Aphra Behn, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Frances Burney, Charles W. Chesnutt, Roddy Doyle, Maria Edgeworth, Ben Jonson, Anita Loos, Emtithal Mahmoud, Thomas Middleton, Okot p'Bitek, William Shakespeare, Laurence Sterne, Jonathan Swift, Alma Villanueva, Paula Vogel, Oscar Wilde, John Wilmot, and William Wycherley; TV shows and films including Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, The Gold Rush, Life Is Beautiful, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Office, Office Space, Rick and Morty, and South Park; works and stand-up performances by Aziz Ansari, Samantha Bee, Dave Chappelle, Louis C.K., Tina Fey, Moms Mabley, Hasan Minhaj, Eddie Murphy, Trevor Noah, Richard Pryor, Issa Rae, and Wanda Sykes; and visual works and other media including Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks, Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes, Nick Sousanis's Unflattening, Marvel's Hawkeye, The Onion, YouTube videos, advertisements, and memes.

Author : Voltaire
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Candide (憨第德) by Voltaire Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Canadian literature
ISBN : UOM:39015012098185

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English Studies in Canada by Anonim Pdf