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Political Satire, Postmodern Reality, and the Trump Presidency
, 2018This book attempts to grasp the recent paradigm shift in American politics through the lens of satire. It connects changes in the political and cultural landscape to corresponding shifts in the structure and organization of the media, in order to shed ...
M. Momen
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Satire and the Politics of Corruption in Kenya
Social & Legal Studies, 2012Corruption in Kenya has been a matter of intense concern for foreign donors and the international financial institutions. External efforts to change the ‘governance culture’ in this regard are not simply instrumental, composed of material restrictions and incentives.
John Harrington, Ambreena Manji
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2013
In the present study, satire is addressed from a more comprehensive theoretical framework that will not reduce it to a form of literary discourse. Consequently, this paper proposes a bipartite model of satire: the macro and the micro model. While the former sees satire as an institutionalized genre of discourse, the latter perceives it not as a genre ...
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In the present study, satire is addressed from a more comprehensive theoretical framework that will not reduce it to a form of literary discourse. Consequently, this paper proposes a bipartite model of satire: the macro and the micro model. While the former sees satire as an institutionalized genre of discourse, the latter perceives it not as a genre ...
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The Politics of Laughter in the Social Media Age, 2021
M. Msimanga, G. Ncube, Promise Mkwananzi
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M. Msimanga, G. Ncube, Promise Mkwananzi
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Abstract Edmund Burke’s critique of French political satire in 1790 launched a debate in England about the value of satire, its efficacy as a political tool, and its literary status. Burke deemed satire a political discourse, detached from traditional literary history, and he decried both its destabilizing influence on social order and ...
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Political Prints and Cartoon Satires
2000French culture was all-pervasive in England. The print satires and cartoons of the years 1748 to 1815 provide unequivocal evidence of this, and through the medium of ‘social icons’ one can gauge how widespread the Gallic phenomenon was perceived to be, and which areas of society France was believed most profoundly to have infiltrated.
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The Kirk Satires and Kirk Politics
Abstract This chapter revisits Burns’s early ‘kirk satires’ in the context of religious life in the poet’s own day and in relation to later critical readings of the poet’s views on religion. It shows how Burns was immersed in religious life via his Scots Presbyterian upbringing, how as an emerging poet he became directly involved in ...openaire +1 more source