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Archetypes, Imprecators, and Victims of Fate: Origins and Developments of Satire in Black Drama

Book by Femi Euba; Greenwood Press, 1989

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, American Drama--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Archetypes In Literature, Blacks In Literature, Drama--Black Authors--History And Criticism, Esu (Legendary Character), Fate And Fatalism In Literature, Satire--History And Criticism, Yoruba (African People)--Folklore

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...historical and theoretical origins, see Elliott, Power of Satire , chaps. 1, 2. Also Matthew Hodgart, Satire New York: McGraw-Hill, 1969 . For the origins of Greek invectives, see F. M. Cornford, The Origin of Attic Comedy Garden City...
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Ginx's Baby: His Birth and Other Misfortunes: A Satire

Book by A Satire; G. Routledge & Sons, 1871

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Charities, Fiction, Satire, English

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...mulcting the rate-payers of St. Bartimeus in a sum of more than 1,600, the guardians were made aware of the name and origin of their charge. One of the persons who had deserted him was arrested for theft; and among other articles in her possession...
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The Lineage of Lady Meed: The Development of Mediaeval Venality Satire

Book by Philip S. Moore, Joseph N. Garvin, John A. Yunck; University of Notre Dame Press, 1963

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Literature, Medieval--History And Criticism, Money In Literature, Satire--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...MORE In the context of a centuries-long tradition of venality-satire Lady Meed, then, had her origin. Yet her episode forms only the center-piece of Langlands venality-satire in Piers Plowman . It serves, indeed, to establish for Langland...
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Critical Synoptics: Menippean Satire and the Analysis of Intellectual Mythology

Book by Carter Kaplan; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Dystopias In Literature, Satire--Classical Influences, Satire--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...master of classical Menippean satire. Surviving in fragmented form...perhaps the most biting of satires because its ferocity lies in...quality in the best Menippean satire which makes it so immediate...satire has its roots in the very origin of satire itself. In Greece, satire...
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Nothing to Admire: The Politics of Poetic Satire from Dryden to Merrill

Book by Christopher Yu; Oxford University Press, 2003

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Merrill, James Ingram--Criticism And Interpretation, Political Poetry, American--History And Criticism, Political Poetry, English--History And Criticism, Politics And Literature--English-Speaking Countries, Verse Satire, American--History And Criticism, Verse Satire, English--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...theory of progress, Byrons satire, like Rousseaus Second Discourse on the Origin and Foundation of Inequality...liberalism, as propounded by his satire, may be understood as beginning...also of cultural intolerance. Satires ancient claim to represent...establish political consensus. 23 Satire acquires the analytic function...

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Journal Articles on: satire origin

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Figures of Repetition: Continuity and Discontinuity in Karl Kraus's Satire

Journal article by Gilbert Carr; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 102, 2007

Subjects:

Kraus, Karl--Criticism and interpretation, Literary techniques--Criticism and interpretation, Satire--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...invoking the values of the origin against modernity is...as the negations of satire exploit repetition and...and institutions that satire has traditionally challenged...rather than erosion of origins. What, then, does satire share with the deconstruction...
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The New Atalantis and Varronian Satire

Journal article by Aaron Santesso; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 79, 2000

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Allegories--18th century, Manley, Dalarivier--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Satire--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The New Atalantis (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women authors--18th century

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...information on Varronian satire, though others are certainly...more was known about Varros satires than about Menippuss...influential discussions of his satires were widely read. The most...contemporary discussion of Varronian satire during the eighteenth-century...in adopting the pseudo-origin of the lost Varro, Manley...masculine authority in satire offered in the exclusively...compediosa doctrina. The satires were also available in A...
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`Administrative Nihilism': Evolution, Ethics and Victorian Utopian Satire *

Journal article by Ann-Barbara Graff; Utopian Studies, Vol. 12, 2001

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Nihilism--Analysis, Satire--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Utopias in literature--Analysis

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...explanations of the origin of humankind. Opposite...place in the utopian satires of the period. The...fixations on progress, origins, scientific authority...subjects of utopian satire--which engage Darwins...new ethical quest: satire is not reformative in...publication of On the Origin of Species and The Descent...distinguished in its origins and development from...
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Satire, Social Practice, and the Self in Percy's Lancelot

Journal article by Peter Lecouras; Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, Vol. 54, 2001

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Arthurian romances--Influence, Lancelot (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Percy, Walker--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Philosophy in literature--Analysis, Satire--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Self in literature--Analysis

Collections: Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Northrop Fryes definition of satire in Anatomy of Criticism...essential elements of this kind of satire is that of the alazon, which...object of ridicule in comedy of satire, but often the hero of a tragedy...grasping ir in its historical origin, in that movement of knowledge...
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Irony, Cynicism and Satire in the Floating Opera

Journal article by Chris Conti; The Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2005

Subjects:

Barth, John, Capitalism, Literary criticism, Novels, Social criticism & satire

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...our own reconstruction of the satire. Freud would have mocked Todds...Copulating crabs remind him of Platos origin myth of the mystical fusion...8 The novels carnivalesque satire is easily confused with the...dialectical godfather of Menippean satire) in Todds idealized portrait...

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Magazine Articles on: satire origin

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Lessons from Juvenal

Magazine article by Roger Kimball; New Criterion, Vol. 21, April 2003

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Juvenal--Attitudes, Juvenal--Works, Latin literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Satire--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Satirists--Attitudes, Satirists--Works

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...courses through the Satires. Once Juvenal entered...clamors, even if its origin in Juvenals tenth Satire is forgotten. Likewise...avis (from the sixth Satire) and mens sana in corpore...society lurking behind his satire. Chaucer appropriates...1636-1711) wrote satires modelled closely on...
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Memo of the Month

Magazine article; Washington Monthly, Vol. 30, October 1998

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Government productivity--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc., Job descriptions--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc., Waste in government spending--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc.

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...TRAINING AGREEMENT REQUIRED FOR UPWARD MOBILITY POSITIONS. SELECTION CRITERIA: All of the above plus: Contributes to a federal workforce reflective of the nations diversity with respect to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
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Laurie Taylor

Magazine article; New Statesman, Vol. 126, November 28, 1997

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Art museums--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc., Art--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc.

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...painting of the nativity in which you have to search among the carousing peasants to find the holy family." Ive no idea of the origin of this catalogue of half-baked ideas, but Ive been vigorously promoting them for the past 40 years. My political views...
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I Wandered Lost around Aldwincle, Mocked by an Alan Titchmarsh Scarecrow

Magazine article by Andrew Martin; New Statesman, Vol. 132, September 1, 2003

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Country life--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc., Country life--Forecasts, Farm life--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc., Farm life--Forecasts

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...Aldwyncle, and the granting of market rights by King John to Thrapston. I assumed that the Scarecrow Trail was also of medieval origin, but, in fact, it dates all the way back to 2000. Every house in the village takes part. Scarecrows are created the image...
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Denmark's Intifada

Magazine article by Paul Belien; American Conservative, Vol. 5, March 13, 2006

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Cartoons, Crisis intervention, Denmark, Immigration policy, Islam, Muslims, Political behavior, Social criticism & satire

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...marriages and that many of them marry someone from their country of origin, a bill passed prohibiting Danish residents from bringing foreign...their children into reconditioning trips to their countries of origin. (Muslims send their children on such trips in order to prevent...

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Newspaper Articles on: satire origin

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Sex and Satire, a Dark Comedy Set on Campus

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 28, 2002

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Sex and satire, a dark comedy set on campus...but darkly so, laying the satire on thick. His hero, or anti...faculty, usually of European origin, wont go along with the game...English predecessors in the satire genre would be easy, but...
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Comedies, Satires, Documentaries All Part of the Jewish Film Festival

Newspaper article by Gary Arnold; The Washington Times, November 29, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Comedies, satires, documentaries all part of the Jewish Film Festival by Gary Arnold The...documentaries and short subjects - represents about a dozen countries of origin. An Israeli feature, the romantic comedy "Pick a Card, aka Afula...
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Of Seethe, Snarl and Glinting Malice

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 18, 2009

Subjects:

Denby, David, Humor, Wit and humor

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...against a history of satire and invective. After...snark, first citing the origin of the word. For that...backward to visit the origins of snark in the noisy...who published sixteen satires in the first century A.D. Satire was a recognized genre...club - I wondered if satire was the right word for...snark from Juvenals Satires, passages unfortunately...
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2009 Oregon Country Fair Entertainment Schedule

Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), July 10, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Atomic, razor sharp political satire with music 5:15 p.m...musicians 3 p.m. - Negara and Origin, eclectic world music and tribal...Atomic, razor sharp political satire with music 1 p.m. - Cassandra...razor sharp musical political satire 5:30 p.m. - Open mike Stage...
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Giggles with Mr Gilbert; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 27, 2011

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...elements of a Bab Ballad -- satire, nonsense, absurdity and a...Chinese once the same people? THE origin of the Japanese people is not...Kyushu to northern Honshu. The origin of Yayoi culture has long been...identified as being of Sino-Korean origin. Ayuri Webber, Reading, Berks...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: satire origin

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Satire

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

SATIRE term applied to any work of literature...their statements have taken reflect the origin of the word satire, which is derived from the Latin satura...models for writers of later ages. The satire of Horace is mild, gently amused, yet...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...dramatic tradition has its origins in ancient Greece. The precise...divisions tragedy , comedy , and satire is not definitely known. According...characterized by obscenity, political satire, fantasy, and strong moral...it is conjectured that the satire, obscenity, and fantasy of...tradition has been suggested as the origin of the commedia dellarte of...
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Jazz

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...States has made to the art of music. Origins of Jazz Jazz developed in the latter...and because it is basically of black origin and association, jazz has to some extent...public, not only because of its cultural origin, but also because it tended to suggest...ranges from total despair to cynicism and satire. Basing his songs on traditional blues...
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American Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...identity amid expanding popularity, as writings of regional origin began to find a mass audience. The stories of the California...the broadness of George Ade s Fables (1899) for the acrid satire of Ring Lardner and the highly polished style of Robert Benchley...
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Gogol, Nikolai Vasilyevich

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...sometimes considered the father of Russian realism. Of Ukrainian origin, he first won literary success with fanciful and romantic tales...dramatist Gogols fame rests on The Inspector-General (1836), a satire on provincial officials. Petty vice and human folly are caricatured...

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