...Brice Particelli Through a classroom moment in a graduate course in the teaching of writing, Particelli explores ways in which pointed inquiry into genre—satire, in this case—allows for a lesson design that encourages critical exploration of culture without burdening students with essentialist...

... of the mechanisms of comedy. In this article the author describes a new first-year, general-education course students titled Laughing Matters: Comedy and Satire, which she created because she believes such a topic is truly interdisciplinary, asking students to come to a sophisticated understanding...

... suicide. Perhaps the account par excellence of the current state of aff airs within the groves of academe is the erudite and over-the-top satire The Lecturer s Tale by James Hynes (2002). It hardly seems coincidental that at a moment when scholastic matters have become so skewed, satire provides...

... begins with a satirical take on the process of historical European practices of land claims, writing from the point of view of an Osage “special agent” who travels throughout Europe and reports on the Old World the way it once reported on the New World. A brief excerpt suggests the direction he...

... if by the intellectual Left he meant the “academic Left,” but here, too, he would run into trouble. Terry Eagle- ton, for example, has had a great deal of fun satirizing just this academic Left for its lapses from economics and from plain good sense. “On the wider shores of academia,” Eagleton writes in After...

... citizenly and com- munal values. Here is Blau, for example, on the durable practice of high school and college teachers of A Modest Proposal not to tell students before their read- ing that the essay is satire and must be read ironically. Typically, Blau writes, as the class begins some or many students...

... students before their read- ing that the essay is satire and must be read ironically. Typically, Blau writes, as the class begins some or many students are oblivious to the irony. Eventu- ally the teacher steers the discussion to passages of particular excess or hyper- bole and to other signals...

... students before their read- ing that the essay is satire and must be read ironically. Typically, Blau writes, as the class begins some or many students are oblivious to the irony. Eventu- ally the teacher steers the discussion to passages of particular excess or hyper- bole and to other signals...

... students before their read- ing that the essay is satire and must be read ironically. Typically, Blau writes, as the class begins some or many students are oblivious to the irony. Eventu- ally the teacher steers the discussion to passages of particular excess or hyper- bole and to other signals...

... across Disciplines (forthcoming). Vincent Carretta is professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is author of The Snarling Muse: Verbal and Visual Political Satire from Pope to Churchill (1983) and George III and the Satirists from Hogarth to Byron (1990) and editor of Unchained...

... 2011 Contributors Herman Asarnow is professor of English and chair at the University of Port- land in Oregon, where he teaches poetry, Renaissance and eighteenth-­century literature, and satire. He is the author of Glass-­Bottom Boat (2007...

... (ways to satirize a self-righteous audience), and Sincerely Yours (a letter-writing strategy); strategies like Pulsing the Tense and Splitting the Second defl ect numbing the-time- I-broke-my-arm essays; Trojan Horse is a unique strategy for process; and exciting formats for research and other...

... that drapes elegantly, leaving other essays looking frumpy and out of style in comparison. Students will be armed with new ways to argue when they employ Devil s Advice, Mocking (ways to satirize a self-righteous audience), and Sincerely Yours (a letter-writing strategy); strategies like Pulsing...

... that drapes elegantly, leaving other essays looking frumpy and out of style in comparison. Students will be armed with new ways to argue when they employ Devil s Advice, Mocking (ways to satirize a self-righteous audience), and Sincerely Yours (a letter-writing strategy); strategies like Pulsing...

... ways to argue when they employ Devil s Advice, Mocking (ways to satirize a self-righteous audience), and Sincerely Yours (a letter-writing strategy); strategies like Pulsing the Tense and Splitting the Second defl ect numbing the-time- I-broke-my-arm essays; Trojan Horse is a unique...

... to be more interested in looking like a thoughtful teacher than actually engaging with students. As he continues to falter, a spider appears on his desk. He is disgusted; he kills it. This is a minor joke, but it enriches the satire of the scene. Mr. O'Neill offers trite statements about “human connection...

... appeared in Twentieth-Century Literature. He is working on a book about the place of satire and affect in modernism. 381 Paul Hanstedt is professor of English at Roanoke College and the former director of the General Education Program. His...

... the department. Thus, it seems that while such statements are a first step, if they are to have any long-range effect, there needs to be original and continual commitment to them on the part of the whole group. Here, we might borrow from family systems theory what is called the Satir Communication Process model...

... of a religious rapture in use during the eighteenth century but not included in Johnson s Dictionary offers a completely different interpretation : The focus of the line would shift from a sexual release to becoming one with God . . . turn[ing] the entire piece into a satire. As this last example reminds...

..., supporting his archives, and creating artistic and fictional portraits of their friend. He appears as David Holloway in Wallace Thurman’s satirical 1932 novel Infants of the Spring, and his image was used as the basis for the protagonists in Carl Van Vechten’s 1926 novel Nigger Heaven and Richard...