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antireligious literary tradition of Boccaccio, Chaucer, Rabelais, Aretino and Balzac. 11 Yet indignant moralists on both the left (Jimmy Carter, John le Carré) and the right (Kingsley Amis, George Steiner) blamed the victim, scolding Rushdie for exercising his artistic and political freedom in a provocative and o ensive manner.
canon of satire was readily accessible, digested, for example, in John Dryden’s ‘Discourse on Satire’ (1693).13 In the vernacular realm, opinions had settled in part because satire’s moral ambivalence made it such a good topic for the conventionalized discourse of the periodicals and, at a personal level, for
Oct 1, 2013 · Satire and the limits of. literary theories. The grea t age for theory of satire stopped suddenl y, shortl y after 1970. Since then, the principal object being described by the bulk of s atire ...
- Robert Phiddian
A synthetic definition of satire could be reached through a critical survey of its various definitions. Accordingly, satire is a discursive practice in a Foucauldian sense to which four elements, with varying degrees, are essential: attack or aggression, laughter or humor, play, and judgment. Defining satire as a Foucauldian discourse allows ...
Nov 1, 2013 · Satire is traditionally thought of as a literary mode with a moral purpose; the satirist writes “with a sense of moral vocation and with a concern for the public interest.” 1 It is clear that satires often address the same sorts of particular moral problems that papers in applied ethics do; for example, Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal addressed English attitudes toward Irish poverty in ...
- Nicholas Diehl
- 2013
port satire. ii The reluctance of literary scholars to account for the relationship of satire and moral philosophy may well stem from the broader reluctance to pro-vide a robust, necessary-and-sufficient-conditions sort of definition of satire - and perhaps this reluc-tance is a wise course after all. The very etymology
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Nov 14, 2012 · This paper explores some of the difficulties involved in defining satire. Neither the formal characteristics of satire nor its informing purposes, including its variable associations with humour and the provocation of amusement allow for a unifying definition over the long term. It considers a range of approaches to and types of definition and takes as a principle example the notion of ...
