The Perennial Satirist

Author : Peter Edgerly Firchow,Hermann Josef Real
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3825883396

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The Perennial Satirist by Peter Edgerly Firchow,Hermann Josef Real Pdf

This collection of essays primarily honours Bernfried Nugel the teacher and scholar, but it also pays homage to Bernfried Nugel the indefatigable worker in the cause of Aldous Huxley studies. It is due to this latter manifestation that many of the contributors to this volume know each other personally, having met at one or more of the international conferences that Professor Nugel organized and either hosted or co-hosted. At Munster, his home university, he has also been instrumental in establishing and heading a center for admirers of Huxley's work, along with a fine library of Huxley materials, including manuscripts and numerous first editions. (Series: "Human Potentialities". Studien zu Aldous Huxley & zeitgenossischer Kultur/Studies in Aldous Huxley & Contemporary Culture - Vol. 7)

Author : S. S. Prawer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1961-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521059909

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Heine the Tragic Satirist by S. S. Prawer Pdf

This 1961 book presents a full-length study of the later works of Heine, relating to Heine's life the underlying themes in his poetry.

Author : Sherard Vines
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781447487883

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Georgian Satirists by Sherard Vines Pdf

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : James E. Caron
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Matthew Hodgart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Catherine Keane
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199981892

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Juvenal and the Satiric Emotions by Catherine Keane Pdf

In his sixteen Satires, the Roman poet Juvenal explores the emotional provocations and pleasures associated with social criticism and mockery, drawing on a diverse array of Greco-Roman treatments of the emotions. But as Keane shows, the satiric emotions are not found only in the author's rhetorical performances; they are also at the centre of the human farrago that the Satires purport to treat. As he paints human experience and conflict from many angles, Juvenal explores the dynamic operation of emotions in society.

Author : Daniel Hooley
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470777084

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Roman Satire by Daniel Hooley Pdf

This compact and critically up-to-date introduction to Roman satire examines the development of the genre, focusing particularly on the literary and social functionality of satire. It considers why it was important to the Romans and why it still matters. Provides a compact and critically up-to-date introduction to Roman satire. Focuses on the development and function of satire in literary and social contexts. Takes account of recent critical approaches. Keeps the uninitiated reader in mind, presuming no prior knowledge of the subject. Introduces each satirist in his own historical time and place – including the masters of Roman satire, Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. Facilitates comparative and intertextual discussion of different satirists.

Author : S. Jones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780312299866

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Satire and Romanticism by S. Jones Pdf

This remarkable study of the constructive and ultimately canon-forming relationship between satiric and Romantic modes of writing from 1760 to 1832 provides us with a new understanding of the historical development of Romanticism as a literary movement. Romantic poetry is conventionally seen as inward-turning, sentimental, sublime, and transcendent, whereas satire, with its public, profane, and topical rhetoric, is commonly cast in the role of generic other as the un-Romantic mode. This book argues instead that the two modes mutually defined each other and were subtly interwoven during the Romantic period. By rearranging reputations, changing aesthetic assumptions, and re-distributing cultural capital, the interaction of satiric and Romantic modes helped make possible the Victorian and modern construction of 'English Romanticism'.

Author : Peter Petro
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110821826

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Modern Satire by Peter Petro Pdf

Author : Bernfried Nugel,Jerome Meckier
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783643104502

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Aldous Huxley Annual by Bernfried Nugel,Jerome Meckier Pdf

Aldous Huxley Annual is the official organ of the Aldous Huxley Society at the Centre for Aldous Huxley Studies in Munster, Germany. It publishes essays on the life, times, and interests of Aldous Huxley and his circle. It aspires to be the sort of periodical that Huxley would have wanted to read and to which he might have contributed. This issue opens with four unknown or little-known short stories by Aldous Huxley: "The Nun's Tragedy" (ca. 1921), "Over the Telephone" (1922), "Nine A.M." (1924), and "Consider the Lilies" (1954). These stories are followed by a selection of lectures from the Fourth International Aldous Huxley Symposium held in Los Angeles in July 2008, together with an article on Brave New World as a parody and satire of Wells, Ford, Freud and Behaviourism in advanced foreign language teaching. The issue closes with another lecture from the Los Angeles Symposium on Huxley as environmental prophet.

Author : Phillipa Vincent Connolly
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526720078

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Disability and the Tudors by Phillipa Vincent Connolly Pdf

Throughout history, how society treated its disabled and infirm can tell us a great deal about the period. Challenged with any impairment, disease or frailty was often a matter of life and death before the advent of modern medicine, so how did a society support the disabled amongst them? For centuries, disabled people and their history have been overlooked - hidden in plain sight. Very little on the infirm and mentally ill was written down during the renaissance period. The Tudor period is no exception and presents a complex, unparalleled story. The sixteenth century was far from exemplary in the treatment of its infirm, but a multifaceted and ambiguous story emerges, where society’s ‘natural fools’ were elevated as much as they were belittled. Meet characters like William Somer, Henry VIII’s fool at court, whom the king depended upon, and learn of how the dissolution of the monasteries contributed to forming an army of ‘sturdy beggars’ who roamed Tudor England without charitable support. From the nobility to the lowest of society, Phillipa Vincent-Connolly casts a light on the lives of disabled people in Tudor England and guides us through the social, religious, cultural, and ruling classes’ response to disability as it was then perceived.

Author : Jerome Meckier
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643915214

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Aldous Huxley and Utopia by Jerome Meckier Pdf

Within the cycle that runs from Erewhon to Island, British literary utopias compete with one another to form the most persuasive picture of what the future might, or should, be like. At issue for Butler, Wells, Zamiatin, Orwell and others is whether utopia, be it positive or negative, is essentially prediction or hypothesis. Huxley contributed to this debate at roughly fifteen-year intervals, his three utopias becoming its key texts. In addition, Aldous Huxley and Utopia examines ironic cure scenes, the obsession with golf in the brave new world, attitudes towards death in Brave New World and Island, problems with names and history in the former, the role of islands in both, the detrimental impact of Madame Blavatsky and young Krishnamurti on the story of Pala, and the significance of a zoological conclusion of Island.

Author : Evan R. Davis,Nicholas D. Nace
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Susanna Braund,Josiah Osgood
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118301982

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A Companion to Persius and Juvenal by Susanna Braund,Josiah Osgood Pdf

A Companion to Persius and Juvenal breaks new ground in its in-depth focus on both authors as "satiric successors"; detailed individual contributions suggest original perspectives on their work, and provide an in-depth exploration of Persius' and Juvenal's afterlives. Provides detailed and up-to-date guidance on the texts and contexts of Persius and Juvenal Offers substantial discussion of the reception of both authors, reflecting some of the most innovative work being done in contemporary Classics Contains a thorough exploration of Persius' and Juvenal's afterlives

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2426 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Languages, Modern
ISBN : PSU:000057121345

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MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures by Anonim Pdf