Intricate Laughter in the Satire of Swift and PopeMacmillan, 1986 - 206 sidor While the eighteenth century was a period in which satire flourished, many eighteenth-century writers felt considerable unease about the form, and about the laughter it produced. This book explores the intricate effects of satiric laughter, taking as its focus the satire of swift and Pope. Laughter is a weapon which excludes its victim not only from society but from the state of being human. At the same time laughter can achieve and strengthen group identity for those who are engaged in laughing, it is also frequently used as a weapon within society. The satirist, in encouraging laughter, reactivates and legitimizes his reader's childhood sense of play in order to secure endorsement of the satiric attack. The greatest satire however, transcends personal attack and brings the reader to affirm, through laughter, belief in the abiding worth of humankind. |
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... attack and such laughter , such an exclusion from the usual fellowship of society , are a very real threat to the victim's sense of identity , and their tendency is to reduce his selfhood to that level of nothingness that is the ...
... attack and such laughter , such an exclusion from the usual fellowship of society , are a very real threat to the victim's sense of identity , and their tendency is to reduce his selfhood to that level of nothingness that is the ...
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... attack in order to achieve the maximum sense of exclusion for the object of the satire . We may not be able still to answer precisely Elliott's question , ' What did it mean to John Partridge ' , but the kind of description I have given ...
... attack in order to achieve the maximum sense of exclusion for the object of the satire . We may not be able still to answer precisely Elliott's question , ' What did it mean to John Partridge ' , but the kind of description I have given ...
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... attack authority , or assumed authority , of some kind . The business of the satirist is to set himself in the reader's eyes in place of the authority attacked . Our respect for authority , from our earliest childhood , our need for ...
... attack authority , or assumed authority , of some kind . The business of the satirist is to set himself in the reader's eyes in place of the authority attacked . Our respect for authority , from our earliest childhood , our need for ...
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Laughter | 40 |
Laughter in Society | 82 |
The Playground of the Mind | 118 |
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Intricate Laughter in the Satire of Swift and Pope Allan Ingram Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1986 |
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