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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... mechanical , predictable , lifeless , a complete though recognisable stranger to all the familiar principles of human existence . Only when he is thus rendered can we properly laugh at him , and as long as we laugh the satiric victim ...
... mechanical , predictable , lifeless , a complete though recognisable stranger to all the familiar principles of human existence . Only when he is thus rendered can we properly laugh at him , and as long as we laugh the satiric victim ...
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... mechanical action in which its personality would be for ever absorbed.13 Our laughter in these circumstances is our protection against a different form of existence , against the mechanical , the amoral which will always be a threat to ...
... mechanical action in which its personality would be for ever absorbed.13 Our laughter in these circumstances is our protection against a different form of existence , against the mechanical , the amoral which will always be a threat to ...
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... mechanical idiot , repeating only what others say , endorsing everything equally and therefore endorsing nothing , as the laughing madman endorses everything and nothing ? Such a suspicion is confirmed five paragraphs later when Swift ...
... mechanical idiot , repeating only what others say , endorsing everything equally and therefore endorsing nothing , as the laughing madman endorses everything and nothing ? Such a suspicion is confirmed five paragraphs later when Swift ...
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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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