Browsing by Subject "satire"
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(1986)In A Tale of A Tub, "Battle of the Books," and "The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit," Swift consistently uses the technique of diminution. Beaumont's Swift's Classical Rhetoric traces Swift's use of diminution in tracts ...
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(2009-05-15)Shows like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report, Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, Saturday Night Live, and even South Park represent an underresearched subfield of discourse about political communication ...
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(2021-04-16)This dissertation considers how contemporary satirical works by Black artists levy a substantive critique of white supremacy by exposing the illogic of “post-race” rhetoric popularized during the Obama era. “Post-race” is ...