...Eric D. Vivier This essay argues that satire should be defined as a rhetorical genre rather than a literary genre or mode. It begins by analyzing a little-known meta satirical poem from the English Renaissance—John Weever's The Whipping of the Satyre (1601)—in order to highlight the range...

...John Clement Ball Satire, with its objectifying, disparaging gaze and deliberate misrepresentations, is a form of othering—of representational violence. Sometimes its mocking and critical ways make satire so explosive that the symbolic violence of its distortions motivates actual violence...

... empiricism owes to comic theory. Copyright © 2017 University of Oklahoma 2017 William Congreve empiricism humors comedy affectation passions sympathy Congreve’s Common Passions: Humor, Affectation, and the Work of Satire rebecca tierney-hynes William Congreve’s irritable response...

... New Discourse: Beverly Cleary’s Ramona Goes to School .” Children’s Literature in Education 30.l ( March 1999 ): 9 - 29 . Bloom Edward A. Lillian D. Bloom . Satire’s Persuasive Voice . Ithaca : Cornell UP , 1979 . Bogel Fredric V. The Difference Satire Makes...

...Martha C. Carpentier Biographical readings have sequestered Mansfield's satiric voice as dark other, but the relationship between satire and sentiment in her fiction is dialogic, meaning that both are double-voiced, not binaristically opposed. Countering gendered discussions of satire...

... that satirizes the suburban genre, questioning the assumption that detachment and discontent go hand in hand in the American suburbs. © 2014 by University of Oklahoma 2014 Works Cited Augé Marc . 1995 . Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity . Translated by Howe John...

...Bill Knight In their ongoing rejection of what I call “ethical retirement,” Sarah Fielding's pair of novels, David Simple (1744) and Volume the Last (1753), mobilize a satirical criticism of mid-century worldly conceptions of the ethical worth of private and privative individualism. The works...

... rights satirical novel.4 As a period of US racial formation, the post civil rights era saw the decline of racial politics as a mass political movement.5 This resulted not simply from the success of conservative counterhegemonic movements appropriating the language of Black freedom struggles (Omi...

... , 1994 . Blanchard W. Scott Scholars' Bedlam: Menippean Satire in the Renaissance . Lewisburg, PA : Bucknell UP , 1995 . Bleiler E. F. Introduction . Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, Vathek by William Beckford, The Vampyre by John Polidori...

...- VERSITY OF OKLAHOMA. ALL RIGHTS OF REPRODUCTION IN ANY FORM RESERVED 2 GENRE ists take advantage of this association to the disparagement of the Pope and his followers; third, that this satirical move coincides with—and arguably helps inaugurate—a much broader shift in the dominant meaning...

..., the complaint, and the lament. This multiplicity of forms virtually compels the modern elegy to mani- fest a series of what might be called attitudinal tonalities--from the comic to the satiric to the ludic and to the ironic. Parts II and III of this essay examine select specific poems not hitherto...

... Christianity religion satire historical novel Jay Parini ( 1992b : 282) once asked Gore Vidal to explain the popularity of his historical series Narratives of Empire . In his response, Vidal speculated that “history is so badly taught in the schools, which means there's a real hunger for information...

... to capture the likely result — ­the eigh- teenth century was already fertile ground for his satire. And those later Swiftian “projectors” who at various times have tried to implement such a world — ­from Charles Fourier with his phalanstery to J. B. Watson with his scientific child rearing...

... impressive readings: chapter 3 shows the way John Lyly's euphuistic style (named after the title character of his prose romance Euphues ) circulated as “court talk.” Chapter 4 shows how railing, satiric, vituperative, “tough talk” gives embodiment to an otherwise anonymous, abstract public. And chapter 5...

... is evident through a possible reference to the state’s economic and social development report Singapore 21: Together, We Make the Difference (Singapore 21 Committee 1999) and the satire of occidentalist thinking that emerged from the Singaporean state’s espousal of “Asian values.”2 2. Through...

... but seemingly imminent realization of bildung as a kind of bourgeois liberal promise. Whereas both Mishra's and Adichie's novels were published before the global financial crisis of 2008 , Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia , published in 2013, directly satirizes liberal personality...

.... In chapter 2, devoted to the flapper, Mendelman shows how Anita Loos's satirical flapper characters in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes are caught between old and new generational expectations. She takes these characters’ plight to “express the more muted pathos of unfreedom” (88). Chapter 3, centered on Frances...

... the sequestering of the self from human intimacies" (35), but he goes on to observe that the poem is not satirical: "That the posture in 'The Vantage Point' is remarkably similar to one close at hand in English poetry [i.e., "The Woodspurge"] is no more the occa- sion for Frostean irony or satire than...

... Tim Killick 125 Conspiracy, Theory, Genre: Collecting, the Paralysis of Interpretation, and Lyrical Truth in John Sayles's Silver City Wesley Beal 151 "The Feast of Misrule": Captain Underpants, Satire, and the Literary Establishment Jackie E. Stallcup...

...- type) and the coquette, Chico demonstrates how these figures explore both the limits and potential of scientific observational practice (44). Chico s reading of Sir Nicholas Gimcrack, FRS, the protagonist of Thomas Shadwell s play The Virtuoso (1676), and a satirical portrayal of Robert Hooke, shows...