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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

...general definition describes satire as an attack on vices, follies...basic to the many forms of satire and highlights its two essential...limited in scope with regard to satires literary development. Indeed, satire, long before the word entered...satire as literary art had its origins in the less formal, although...can deliberately extend this origin, as the English Renaissance...
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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

Subjects:

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

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...rapid development of venality-satire from its origins in the bosom of the Curia through...Yet the evaluation of this satires relations with ecclesiastical...and an examination of the satire leaves the impression that...seen, in sermons as well as satire. Cf., e.g., an anonymous...
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The Difference Satire Makes: Rhetoric and Reading from Jonson to Byron

Book by Fredric V. Bogel; Cornell University Press, 2001

Subjects:

Books And Reading--Great Britain--History, English Language--Rhetoric, English Literature--History And Criticism, Satire, English--History And Criticism, Verse Satire, English--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...but satire as such. Not that all satire rejects its own satiric voices...anthropological truth about the primitive origins of satire, this doubleness this mixture...invisible depth. As a result, satire has a more profound, and somewhat...
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English Clandestine Satire, 1660-1702

Book by Harold Love; Oxford University Press, 2004

Subjects:

English Literature--Early Modern, 1500-1700--History And Criticism, Great Britain--History--Stuarts, 1603-1714--Historiography, Politics And Literature--Great Britain--History--17th Century, Satire, English--History And Criticism, Underground Literature--Great Britain--History And Criticism, Verse Satire, English--History And Criticism

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MODES AND ORIGINS Clandestine satire is satire written for circulation through...metropolitan book trade. Clandestine satires are usu- ally referred to in this...public life given by clandestine satire was distorted, irreverent, and...
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African American Satire: The Sacredly Profane Novel

Book by Darryl Dickson-Carr; University of Missouri Press, 2001

Subjects:

African Americans In Literature, African Americans--Intellectual Life--20th Century, American Fiction--20th Century--History And Criticism, American Fiction--African American Authors--History And Criticism, Political Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Political Satire, American--History And Criticism, Politics And Literature--United States--History--20th Century, Satire, American--History And Criticism

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...differentiate African American satire from its more frequently studied...proletarian sensibility? If satire is, as some theorists argue...serious study of African American satire requires that we consider the folk origins of African American literature...

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L'hermeneutique De la Satire Rabelaisienne

Journal article by Barbara C. Bowen; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008

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Books--Book reviews, Difficile est saturam non scribere: L'hermeneutique de la satire rabelaisienne (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...will be on the evolution of Rabelaisian satire. Part 1, on origins and contexts, offers another Latin quotation...discusses the sources of Renaissance satire with particular stress on Lucian, Roman satire, and a few Renaissance authors: Tahureau...
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Austen's Emma and the Gendering of Enlightenment Satire

Journal article by Nicholas Mason; Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, Vol. 25, 2003

Subjects:

Austen, Jane--Criticism and interpretation, Austen, Jane--Influence, Emma (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Enlightenment (Cultural movement)--Influence, Enlightenment (Cultural movement)--Social aspects, Enlightenment--Influence, Enlightenment--Social aspects, Satire--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors--Influence, Women writers--Criticism and interpretation, Women writers--Influence

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...memorable satire. But, from its origins until the present, Restoration...had become a staple of male satire in Britain. (4) When women...attraction of soft pleading: her satire, which, though never malignant...now that we have seen her satire, the last thing that we could...Barbauld is a reaffirmation of satires gendered nature. In effect...
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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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Censorship and Generic Change: The Case of Satire on the Early Eighteenth-Century London Stage

Journal article by Matthew J. Kinservik; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 78, 1999

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Censorship--History, Drama--History, London, England--18th century, Satire--History, Theater--Censorship

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...resulted in a move toward Horatian satire on the stage. To suggest that...censorial pretensions -- and origins -- of the sympathetic satirist. The changes in theatrical satire theory are distinct from contemporaneous changes in verse satire theory: the former resulted...
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`Administrative Nihilism': Evolution, Ethics and Victorian Utopian Satire *

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

Subjects:

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

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...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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Life Drawing: Our National Obsession with Political Sleaze and Celebrity Misbehaviour Is Nothing New. John Mullan on the Scurrilous Ancestors of Scarfe, Steadman and Spitting Image

Magazine article by John Mullan; New Statesman, Vol. 135, November 6, 2006

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Books--Book reviews, City of Laughter: Sex and Satire in 18th-Century London (Book)--Book reviews

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...Steadman and Spitting Image--have their origins in the late 18th and early 19th centuries...intellectual, didactic, moralistic. Satire in the age of Rowlandson and Cruikshank...behaviour were not politically radical. Satires habit of levelling the motivations of...University Press * City of Laughter: sex and satire in 18th-century London, Vic Gatrell...
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Not Your Father's Conservatism

Magazine article by John Derbyshire; American Conservative, Vol. 6, February 12, 2007

Subjects:

Conservatism, Culture, Ideology, Lind, William, Public figures, Social criticism & satire, United States, Weyrich, Paul M

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...growths of the fine Anglo-American tradition of ribald social satire and scorn for authoritarian pieties. Nor could they have fore...page tax codes to our university speech codes, all have their origins in this turning away from reality. Rather than facing straightforward...
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The Body Politic ~ Diseases and Discourses

Magazine article by Roy Porter; History Today, Vol. 51, October 2001

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Caricatures and cartoons--History, Cartoonists--History, Physicians--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...like Laurence Sternes Dr Slop, became targets for prurient satire. The new male obstetrician challenging the old midwives became...frequently appeared sick and afflicted, as when, his brute origins in mind, Cruikshank pictured him suffering from murrain...
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Tocqueville Today

Magazine article by Roger Kimball; New Criterion, Vol. 19, November 2000

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Democracy in America (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Democracy--Evaluation, Parody--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Satire--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Tocqueville, Alexis de--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...situation of the United States, traces the origins of American democracy in Puritan New...peoples always feel the effects of their origins." Just as one can predict a mans...threatens to be a march into sterility. The origins of democracy thus not only allow us to...impious and detestable." Although the origin of all political power in a democracy...
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Laurie Taylor

Magazine article; New Statesman, Vol. 129, February 14, 2000

Subjects:

Swimmers--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc., Swimming--Anecdotes, cartoons, satire, etc.

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...standing at the far end of the baths marvelling at how my style confirmed his belief in humanitys unconscious memory of its fishy origins. Such immodesty is, of course, thoroughly out of place in a column typically characterised by endearing self-deprecation...

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HALF-COCK HERO.. Smith's Boozy Super-Human Is Reckless and Feckless - but He's a Real Blast HANCOCK *** 15 GRANT LAUCHLAN'S MOVIE REVIEWS

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), July 4, 2008

Subjects:

Motion pictures--Movie reviews

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

...past that could destroy him and the love of his life. The first half of Hancock rewrites the superhero origins movie. Its almost a satire on the whole genre. An alcoholic superhero is no easy sell to a studio and the film was in development...
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Jacked!

Newspaper article by By Dann Gire; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 1, 2009

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

...dgire@dailyherald.com "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" begins as a dark and...overwrought silliness that it resembles a satire of itself. Hugh Jackman fans probably wont be disappointed in "X-Men Origins." Buffed up, touched up and roughed...
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I Can't Hear the Music but I Can Say Anything I Want by Dancing; BURLESQUE BABE'S RARE CONDITION MAKES IT DIFFICULT TO COMMUNICATE BUT IT DOESN'T STOP HER GETTING RAVE REVIEWS Sexy Millie Thrills the Crowds but Draws Line at Doing a Full Monty

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), May 7, 2008

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

...She said: "We just had to have her. She is just so beautiful." With its origins in nineteenth-century music hall and vaudeville, burlesque is a blend of satire, striptease and comedy. It has experienced a surge in popularity recently...
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Blue over Batman's 'Red Hood'

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), July 29, 2010

Subjects:

Film and video production companies, Video production companies, Warner Brothers Entertainment Inc.

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

...the comic book than vice versa. Best extras: The creators say the comics origins lie in trying to mimic classic action films, but their scope of brilliance and satire goes well beyond the genre. A 10-minute featurette, The Losers: Action...
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A Bad Case of Metal Fatigue; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 30, 2009

Subjects:

Fatigue (Materials), Fatigue testing machines, Materials--Fatigue

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

...this association existed? NO EXACT origin has been found for this powerfully evocative...Dictionary Of Phrase Fable offer classical origins, stating that Roman poet Horace (65-8BC) was the first to use it. In his Satires Book II, Satire VII -- Of Spiritual Freedom, he lists...Hogarths emaciated pup, but could be the origin of Churchills demon. It is quite possible...

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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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