... a variety of examples, I repeat Genette's traditional discrimination among strict parody, travesty, satiric pastiche, and pure (or nonsatiric) pastiche. I also urge the importance of distinguishing between these forms and that of satire in general, agreeing with the oft-expressed view that parody often...

...Edward J. Milowicki; Robert Rawdon Wilson A vigorous classical tradition was adopted and adapted in the English Renaissance, a way of satirical writing that we call Menippean discourse. This tradition was well known to Shakespeare; indeed, it challenged his deepest creative instincts, and he...

... reform. Those arguments highlight different key figures and events yet draw on similar narrative genres to frame them. Importantly, high genres of heroic romance inspire elevation toward one's own side by celebrating victories and lamenting tragedies, and low genres of satire inspire contempt toward...

... in their food-related works. Four such literary recipes (by Georges Perec, Jacques Roubaud, Harry Mathews, and Alastair Brotchie) are closely examined, after discussion of key concepts of Oulipian poetics from the culinary viewpoint. The article's special point of reference is the parodic, satirical, absurd...

... to a broad variety of viewer needs and expectations. Anchor John Oliver often establishes a complex political argumentation that requires the entire attention and concentration of the TV audience. Paradoxically, this is why he almost constantly interrupts the argument with funny or satirical digressions. His...

...R. D. Perry This essay discusses the fart joke that ends Geoffrey Chaucer’s “Summoner’s Tale.” It argues that the joke uses the language of medieval philosophy to satirize the work of medieval Scholastic philosophers. The essay begins by examining Chaucer’s relationship to philosophy more broadly...

... Jacques 1981 `` The Law of Genre ,'' in On Narrative , translated by Ronell Avital , edited by Mitchell W. J. T. , 51 – 77 ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press ). De Smet Ingrid A. R. 1996 Menippean Satire and the Republic of Letters 1581–1655 , Travaux du Grand...

... to Menippean satire. He argues that “Bakhtin’s take on the very modern notion of tradition diverges from the standard attempt to position it as modernity’s stabilizing counterpart. He does not, conservatively, seek to reign in modernity through tradition, but, radically, reimagines tradition in modernist...

... and Semantics. Vol. 3,Speech Acts , edited by P. Cole and J. P. Morgan, 41 -59 (New York: Seminar Press). 1989 Studies in the Way of Words (Boston: Harvard University Press). Griffin, Dustin 1994 Satire: A Critical Reintroduction (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky). Groeben, Norbert...

... a syllabus or engage in areas of recent debate. The final chapter of Ecological Form , “Satire's Ecology” by Teresa Shewry, moves seamlessly, as so many of the chapters in this volume do, between temporal registers of ecology and empire. It begins by considering New Zealand poet David Eggleton's...

... works that read like novels, satires, reviews, theological treatises, and sermons, he wrote aphorisms, prayers, tales, and pieces of teasing journalism—and, in the last year of his life, a barrage of polemical pamphlets that arguably marked a radical departure from all his preceding work...

... it satirizes thosemost likely to read and comment on it: journalists, politicians, and academics. One s reac- tion to, and interpretation of, Submission became a kind of ideological test in a certain Frenchmilieu ( Julliard 2015).Much of themainstream, left-leaning press in France accused Houellebecq...

... 1980 Fools' Plays: A Study of Satire in the Sottie (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Aubailly, Jean-Claude 1977 Deux jeux de carnaval de la fin du Moyen Age: La bataille de Sainct Pensard à l'encontre de Caresme et le Testament de Carmentrant (Geneva: Droz). 1984 Le monologue...

... Hopkins University Press). Hynes, Samuel 1972 [1961] “The Epistemology of The Good Soldier,” in Ford Madox Ford: Modern Judgments , edited by Richard A. Cassell, 97 -105 (London: Macmillan). Jaarsma, Richard J. 1968 “Satiric Intent in The Vicar of Wakefield,” Studies in Short Fiction 5...

... living infrastruc- ture “system” known as “the Machine,” which ordinarily sees to her every want and need, from nutrition to communication. Forster’s story is highly satiric, and allusions to the future-as-past often serve comedic purposes in which such historical periods, which lie between...

... Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling and a skit from Hanoch Levin’s satirical play Queen of the Bathtub hold a dialogue with the scene of Isaac’s sacrifice from Genesis 22; Zeev Jabotinsky’s novel Samson, Cecil DeMille’s film Samson and Delilah, and John Milton’s long poem Samson Agonistes converse...

... derivations . . . are used in the basic (not extended, metaphorical) sense” (77). Among these dialogic interactions, a passage from Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling and a skit from Hanoch Levin’s satirical play Queen of the Bathtub hold a dialogue with the scene of Isaac’s sacrifice from Genesis...

... derivations . . . are used in the basic (not extended, metaphorical) sense” (77). Among these dialogic interactions, a passage from Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling and a skit from Hanoch Levin’s satirical play Queen of the Bathtub hold a dialogue with the scene of Isaac’s sacrifice from Genesis...

...-authored satire? The stakes are especially clear for gay studies, because it is a narrative of a female cross-dresser, a fact empha- sized by the title’s claim that she ‘‘made the tour of Europe, dressed in men’s cloaths, attended by her maid Lucy as her valet de chambre Lanser finds two scholars who...

... racist outlook in the covert progression (84 – 90). In this and other chapters of the book, the comparative or intertextual treatment of various texts by the same author and/or by other authors tends to put these works in a significantly new light. Analysis of the satirically subversive covert...