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Free Download James E. Caron, "The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern "
English | ISBN: 3031412753 | 2024 | 230 pages | EPUB, PDF | 426 KB + 3 MB
The Modern Feminine in the Medusa Satire of Fanny Fern argues that Sara Parton and her literary alter ego, Fanny Fern, occupy a star-power position within the antebellum literary marketplace dominated by women authors of sentimental fiction, writers Nathaniel Hawthorne (in)famously called "the damn mob of scribbling women." The Fanny Fern persona represents a nineteenth-century woman voicing the modern feminine within a laughter-provoking bourgeois carnival, a forerunner of Hélène Cixous’s laughing Medusa figure and her theory about écriture féminine. By advancing an innovative theory about an Anglo-American aesthetic, comic belles lettres, Caron explains the comic nuances of Parton’s persona, capable of both an amiable and a caustic satire. The book traces Parton’s burgeoning celebrity, analyzes her satires on cultural expectations of gendered behavior, and provides a close look at her variegated comic style. The book then makes two first-order conclusions: Parton not only offers a unique profile for antebellum women comic writers, but her Fanny Fern persona also anchors a potential genealogy of women comic writers and activists, down to the present day, who could fit Kate Clinton’s concept of

Free Download Eric McLuhan, "Cynic Satire"
English | ISBN: 1443877603 | 2015 | 250 pages | PDF | 7 MB
A Menippean-Cynic-satire is a device for producing a specific kind of effect on the reader. Menippean satire is an active form, not a passive one: any work that produces the effect of a Menippean satire is a Menippean satire. It is the embodiment of a Cynic – of a Diogenes or a Menippus or a Lucian or a Rabelais. For centuries, it has frustrated the best efforts of critics to define it. Descriptive criteria (such as ‘a mixture of verse and prose’) invariably fail because the form is determinedly fluid and polymorphous, and playful: it shifts its mode of attack with every change in culture or perception. Menippists plagiarize with abandon, from anyone and any period and culture. McLuhan has found a new and potent method of coming to grips with the satires by examining their interaction with the audience: the satire does what a Cynic would, were he or she physically present. This approach accounts for every shift in technique, from the most ancient (Homer composed one, the Margites) to tomorrow afternoon, and also opens the discussion of Menippism in any and all media other than literaturea

Free Download „Pleite glotzt euch an. Restlos": Satire in der Publizistik der Weimarer Republik. Ein Handbuch By Hermann Haarmann (auth.)
1999 | 243 Pages | ISBN: 3531132954 | PDF | 6 MB
Das Handbuch dokumentiert und erläutert die verschiedenen Gattungen (Literatur, Bildende Kunst etc.) und Persönlichkeiten (z. B. Tucholsky, Grosz, Heartfield) im Hinblick auf die Satire. Eingeleitet wird dies durch eine umfangreiche Einführung ins Thema. Die weiteren Großkapitel leiten das jeweilige Thema ein und dokumentieren und kommentieren anschließend die ausgewählten Texte. Ergänzt wird das Buch durch eine Vielzahl einschlägiger Karrikaturen und Photos.

Free Download Christopher P. Campbell editor of "The Routledge, "Race, Representation, and Satire"
English | ISBN: 1666919276 | 2023 | 262 pages | EPUB, PDF | 398 KB + 1196 KB
Race, Representation, and Satire examines the role of humor, sarcasm, and parody in providing audiences with insight into race and racism in contemporary media through an analysis of representations of race and ethnicity in texts, online content, television shows, and comedy routines. Contributors argue that while many minoritized groups continue to be targeted by stereotypes and myths that have lingered for centuries, satire and comedy can be powerful tools for reversing harmful narratives and generating accurate, authentic, and inclusive representations. Scholars of media studies, popular culture, rhetoric, and race will find this book particularly useful.

Free Download Fabian Alfie, "Dante Satiro: Satire in Dante Alighieri’s Comedy and Other Works "
English | ISBN: 1793621713 | 2020 | 230 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This collection of essays is the first comprehensive study on Dante and satire within his entire corpus that has been published. Its title evokes the moment when Virgil leads Dante through Limbo, the uppermost portion of Hell. There, they are joined by four classical poets, and Virgil describes one of them as "Horace the satirist" ("Orazio satiro," 4:89). By applying the expression to Dante himself, this volume seeks to explore the satirical elements in his works. Although Dante is not typically described as a satirist, anyone familiar with his works will recognize the strong satirical element in his many writings. Ultimately, this study shows that Dante engages in satire in order to attain the primary literary tool at his disposal for his prophetic objectives: the castigation of vice.