The laughter of the saints Giles, Ryan D
The laughter of the saints,
c2009, 20091031, 2009, 2009-10-31, 2009-01-01
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The Laughter of the Saints examines this rich carnivalesque tradition of parodied holy men and women and traces their influence to the anti-heroes and picaresque roots of early modern novels such as ...Don Quixote.
Well-known scholars and poets living in sixteenth-century France, including Erasmus, Ronsard, Calvin, and Rabelais, promoted elite satire that "corrected vices" but "spared the person"-yet this ...period, torn apart by religious differences, also saw the rise of a much cruder, personal satire that aimed at converting readers to its ideological, religious, and, increasingly, political ideas. By focusing on popular pamphlets along with more canonical works,Less Rightly Said shows that the satirists did not simply renounce the moral ideal of elite, humanist scholarship but rather transmitted and manipulated that scholarship according to their ideological needs. Szabari identifies the emergence of a political genre that provides us with a more thorough understanding of the culture of printing and reading, of the political function of invectives, and of the general role of dissensus in early modern French society.
Defining "Fake News" Tandoc, Edson C.; Lim, Zheng Wei; Ling, Richard
Digital journalism,
02/2018, Volume:
6, Issue:
2
Journal Article
Peer reviewed
This paper is based on a review of how previous studies have defined and operationalized the term "fake news." An examination of 34 academic articles that used the term "fake news" between 2003 and ...2017 resulted in a typology of types of fake news: news satire, news parody, fabrication, manipulation, advertising, and propaganda. These definitions are based on two dimensions: levels of facticity and deception. Such a typology is offered to clarify what we mean by fake news and to guide future studies.
This study constructs and tests a conceptual model of how and for whom political satire affects political attitudes. With an experiment, we show that young adults compared to older people are more ...absorbed in satirical items than in regular news. Subsequently, absorption decreased counterarguing such that the attitude toward the satirized object was affected negatively. By contrast, we show that political satire positively affects the attitude toward the satirized subject via perceived funniness; this was particularly strong among those who held views congruent with the satire or lacked background knowledge, which follows disposition theory. Investigating the underlying and conditional processes gave insight into mechanisms through which satire influences attitudes and pinpointed possible reasons for mixed effects of this infotainment genre.
In this groundbreaking study, Jonathan Greenberg locates a satiric sensibility at the heart of the modern. By promoting an antisentimental education, modernism denied the authority of emotion to ...guarantee moral and literary value. Instead, it fostered sophisticated, detached and apparently cruel attitudes toward pain and suffering. This sensibility challenged the novel's humanistic tradition, set ethics and aesthetics into conflict and fundamentally altered the ways that we know and feel. Through lively and original readings of works by Evelyn Waugh, Stella Gibbons, Nathanael West, Djuna Barnes, Samuel Beckett and others, this book analyzes a body of literature - late modernist satire - that can appear by turns aloof, sadistic, hilarious, ironic and poignant, but which continually questions inherited modes of feeling. By recognizing the centrality of satire to modernist aesthetics, Greenberg offers not only a new chapter in the history of satire but a persuasive new idea of what made modernism modern.
Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, John Oliver, and Jimmy Kimmel—these comedians are household names whose satirical takes on politics, the news, and current events receive some of the highest ...ratings on television. In this book, James E. Caron examines these and other satirists through the lenses of humor studies, cultural theory, and rhetorical and social philosophy, arriving at a new definition of the comic art form.
Tracing the history of modern satire from its roots in the Enlightenment values of rational debate, evidence, facts, accountability, and transparency, Caron identifies a new genre: “truthiness satire.” He shows how satirists such as Colbert, Bee, Oliver, and Kimmel—along with writers like Charles Pierce and Jack Shafer—rely on shared values and on the postmodern aesthetics of irony and affect to foster engagement within the comic public sphere that satire creates. Using case studies of bits, parodies, and routines, Caron reveals a remarkable process: when evidence-based news reporting collides with a discursive space asserting alternative facts, the satiric laughter that erupts can move the audience toward reflection and possibly even action as the body politic in the public sphere.
With rigor, humor, and insight, Caron shows that truthiness satire pushes back against fake news and biased reporting and that the satirist today is at heart a citizen, albeit a seemingly silly one. This book will appeal to anyone interested in and concerned about public discourse in the current era, especially researchers in media studies, communication studies, political science, and literary and cultural studies.
Since the Middle Ages the character of the scholar has been a recurrent
stereotype in burlesque literature. In most cases satirical depictions of judges,
advocates and writers articulate an ...acrimonious criticism of corruption within juridical
institutions. In the poetry and fiction of Francisco de Quevedo conceptual procedures
(procedures of so called conceptismo) —that is metaphors and wordplays
with multiple meanings— tend to dominate and they sometimes even neutralize
satirical pungency. This can be noted also regarding the role of scholars in some of
his sonnets and in Quevedo’s Sueño de la muerte
Desde la Edad Media, el letrado es una figura recurrente y altamente estereotipada en la literatura burlesca. En la mayoría de los casos, las representaciones satíricas de los jueces, abogados y escribanos articulan una crítica mordaz contra la corrupción de las instituciones jurídicas. En la poesía y la narrativa de Francisco de Quevedo, sin embargo, los procedimientos conceptistas, es decir, las transformaciones metafóricas y las ambigüedades semánticas tienden a dominar, incluso a neutralizar la agresividad satírica, como puede observarse con respecto al papel del letrado en algunos sonetos y en el Sueño de la muerte, de Quevedo
Motivations matter because they affect cognitive processes, which in turn impact any effects that satire might have upon viewers. Therefore, a better understanding of motivations add nuance to future ...research and generates suggestions on how to create engaging news narratives for a twenty-first century audience. This paper investigates why young adults watch the popular journalistic satire show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Through semi-structured interviews with young adults (N = 11), using theoretical thematic analysis, a framework of 11 motivations for consuming satire was constructed. The results of this study carry four implications: (1) entertainment and information are interdependent, (2) information is made up of learning and understanding, (3) two new motivations were discovered: inspiration and host, and (4) young adults desire authenticity.
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