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Contemporary British satire and the problem of Jonathan Swift’s personae

Ars & Humanitas, 2020
This essay brings the example of Jonathan Swift’s literary personae to bear on current trends in satirical culture. A number of recent commentators have written of a crisis in contemporary British satire.
John Stubbs
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The infl uence of Russian satire on Dungan satirical prose in Central Asia [PDF]

Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: Серия Филология, Журналистика
The Dungans are descendants of Hui immigrants from northwestern China during the late Qing Dynasty. Their number has grown to 100,000 people, they are located on the territory of Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.
Si, Junqin
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MOCKING THE PEOPLE: POPULIST AESTHETICS AND THE POLITICS OF SATIRE IN CONTEMPORARY MOCKUMENTARY [PDF]

Jurnalul Artelor Spectacolului
This article examines how contemporary mockumentaries critique populist discourse by appropriating and subverting documentary aesthetics. Through comparative analysis of Róbert Lakatos’s Whose Dog Am I?
Mihaela Florentina Constantinescu
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The Political Satire of "The Non-Juror" [PDF]

Modern Philology, 1915
The extraordinary vogue of Cibber's The Non-Juror may be explained in part by the excellence of the original, le Tartuffe, from which it was indirectly adapted. That excellence accounts for its long stage history: not only was it frequently revived,' but in the slightly altered form of The Hypocrite it continued before the public from 17682 to 1823;3 ...
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Revolution and the Hijab in the Political Satire of Noor Khanom

Kvinder, Køn & Forskning
This article examines the intersections of gender, satire, and political resistance through a case study of Noor Khanom, a satirical Syrian television show that aired on Syria TV between 2018 and 2021.
Zenia Henriksen, Kræn Kielsgaard Hansen
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Public Engagement, Propaganda, or Both? Attitudes Toward Politicians on Political Satire and Comedy Programs

International Journal of Communication, 2017
This article reports findings of a project that examined people’s attitudes toward politicians who participate in political satire and comedy programs. It surveyed 489 participants on their attitudes about satire’s political function and the politicians
Rebecca Higgie
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Election Satire: The Evolution of The Daily Show as a Cultural Artifact Reflecting Democratic Processes

Journalism and Media
The Trump era marked a turning point for political satire, where The Daily Show’s coverage of the last two election cycles reveals a dynamic interplay between satire, ideology, and democratic processes.
Najla Lilya Jaballah
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Using counterfactuals to display facts – the case of satirical humor

ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics)
Satire has not been given the humorologists’ attention to an extent that would do justice to the amount of humor satire actually holds. Therefore, the intention of this paper is to shed light on satire as humorous discourse, with an emphasis on ...
Adi Maslo
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Laughter as Resistance: The Rise of Political Satire in Croatia and Serbia

Političke Perspektive, 2016
With the recent rise of the Right Wing throughout the world, there has been a significant increase in production of countervailing political comedy and satire.
Srđan Jovanović
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Traiano Boccalini: la ragion di stato tra satira e sinceritas. Quale accettabilità per Machiavelli ?

Les Dossiers du GRIHL, 2011
The ‘News-sheets of Parnassus’ (Venice 1612-1613) by Traiano Boccalini are a political satire in which the author criticizes in allegorical language the Machievellian origins of the Imperialism of Philip II supported by the Counter Reformation papacy. As
Antonella Ciccarelli
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