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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Social satire"”.
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Social Satire in Brazilian Literature: Seventeenth-Nineteenth Century
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Creating the Irish Book: The Cultural and Aesthetic Work of the Dolmen Press
… whether through a treatment of beauty or use of social satire, spoke to Liam Miller’s goal to publish Irish books.
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Flack
… literary realist bildungsroman, with elements of social satire and political farce. The story recounts the events surrounding a contemporary campaign for the United States Senate, structured and narrated in a traditional manner, covering the events leading up to the campaign and delving into the …
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Fabricating humans: From H.G. Wells' Morlock to Karel Čapek's Robot via Zamyatin's OneState & E.M. Forster's Machine
… the “human.” I argue that all four writers use social satire and machine tropes to explore and critique the effects of industrialization upon, and the tension between, society as a whole and the individual in society. I argue that in The Time Machine, When the Sleeper Wakes, The First Men in the …
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Allegory and Metaphor: Soviet Productions of Shakespeare in the Post -Stalin Era
… that is, the polemical circumlocution of social issues by means of allegory, allusion or satire. This dissertation discusses nine such Shakespearean productions. Their directors used these productions, brilliant artistic creations in their own right, in order to critique the government of …
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Intercambio de recursos en la ficción de Percy Wyndham Lewis
… his humorous novel Snooty Baronet (1932), his social satire The VulgarStreak (1941) and his autobiographical work of fiction Self-Condemned (1954). American Resource Theory of social exchange by Uriel G. Foa is the sociological framework proposed to explore the idiosyncratic relationship that …
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A CRITICAL OLD-SPELLING EDITION OF APHRA BEHN'S "THE CITY HEIRESS"
… on The City Heiress, a comedy most noted for its satire of the Whigs and its caricature of The Earl of Shaftesbury, but more important as Behn's most definitive statement about women. In this play, employing what Laura Brown calls "dramatic social satire," Behn reverses the comic resolution one …
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The language of painting in nineteenth-century English fiction
… painting. The second chapter approaches Austen's social satire against the background of the aesthetic traditions which she inherits from the eighteenth century. It is argued that her own novelistic aesthetic gains more from the discourses surrounding the practice of picturesque landscape …
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In defense of "Huckleberry Finn": Antiracism motifs in "Huckleberry Finn" and a review of racial criticism in Twain's work (Mark Twain)
… creates characters that are imprisoned by their social milieu. Huck, Jim, and the society as a whole are trapped within the confines of the existing slave system and the other entrapments of culture, most notably--language. Huckleberry Finn is a dialectic in that Twain uses the language against …
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Tunisian Theater at the Turn of the Century: "Hammering the Same Nail" in Jalila Baccar and Fadhel Jaïbi's Theater
… theater--and emphasizes the national (political, social, cultural) contexts of the drama, it also demonstrates the importance of a comparative approach, the permeability of national borders, and the interconnections with other literatures, especially the ways in which influence flows in both …