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Satire

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement. Although…

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Satire

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related to Bibliography · 97
Satire → Alberta, Allegri, Allemagne, Anatomy, Anne Lynn, Antonio Abati, Anyway, Arabic Society, Art, Birberick, Boileau, Bosworth, Bracht, Branham, Brian, Brill Publishers, By Petronius, California Press, Change, Charente
related to Satirical prophecy · 55
Satire → After, America, American, Americathon, Among, Back, Benjamin Franklin, Bush, Canada, Canadian, Chinese, Donald Trump, English, France, Furthermore, Future Part II, Gentle's, Gillette, Gillette Fusion, Gillette's
related to Further reading · 45
Satire → Albuquerque, Aristophanes, Barnes, Bibliography, Bloom, Brian, Bronowski, Bruce, Canada, Connery, Contemporary, Continental Satirical Writings, David Joseph, Dooley, Edward, English Scatological Writings, Feinberg, From Leonardo, Hegel, Holt
related to Theories/critical approaches to satire as a genre · 39
Satire → Alvin, Berlin-New York, Brian, Combe, Connery, CS1, Die Theorie, Draitser, Emil, Essays, Gattungsgeschichte, German, Gilbert, Greek, Gruyter, Hammer, Highet, ISBN, Kernan, Kindermann
related to Age of Enlightenment · 34
Satire → Alexander Pope, Anglo-Irish, Britain, Discourse Concerning, Dunciad, English, Enlightenment, For, Gulliver's Travels, Henry St John, His, Horatian, In, Irish, John Arbuthnot, John Dryden, John Gay, Jonathan Swift, Mac Flecknoe, Martinus Scriblerus
related to 20th-century satire · 32
Satire → Adolf Hitler, Aldous Huxley, American, Anatoly Lunacharsky, Babbitt, Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Dorothy Parker, Elmer Gantry, English, Europe, European, George Orwell, Herein, In, It Can't Happen Here, Jonathan Swift, Karl Kraus, Lewis, Main Street
related to Medieval Europe · 31
Satire → As, Carl Orff, Carmina Burana, Chaucer, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Christian, Count, De Vries, Dutch, Early Middle Ages, Examples, Flanders, Fougères, Fox, Goliards, High Middle Ages, In, Livre, Madoc, Manières
related to Roman world · 25
Satire → AD, Augustus, BC, Ctesias, Gaius Lucilius, He, Hipponax, Homer, Horace, Iambulus, In, Indica, Juvenal, Latin, Lucian, Other, Persius, Pliny, Quintilian, Roman
related to Medieval Islamic world · 22
Satire → Abu Dulaf, Abu Dulaf's, Al-Jahiz, Ali, An, Another, Arabian Nights, Arabic, As-Salami, Farazdaq, Farazdaq-like, For, He, If, In, Jarir, Large Member, Medieval Arabic, Quraysh, Sharia
related to Contemporary satire · 19
Satire → British, Contemporary, Court Flunkey, Got News, Have, It, James Gillray, Mock, One, Refer, Roman Satire, Spitting Image, The Cambridge Companion, The News Quiz, The Now Show, UK, Week, While, You

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Satireis agentle reminder to take life less seriously and evokes a wry smile.JuvenalianJuvenalian satire0.90text
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Satireis abelief spread by the romantic movement that satire is something unworthy of serious attention0.90text
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the works of François Rabelais tackled more serious issues.Two major satirists of Europe in the Renaissance were Giovanni Boccaccioinstance ofwhen texts0.80text
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Aldous Huxleyinstance ofsatire was used by English authors0.80text
Main Streetinstance ofNovelist Sinclair Lewis was known for his satirical stories0.80text

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