The present essay discusses interpretations of satire offered by different disciplines. Furthermore it hypothesizes that both verbal and visual satirical texts provide particularly useful evidences ...of the emotions related to a certain historical period or a certain context. The author analyzes sources from the satirical press, which has been the subject of his PhD research, and from the current affairs in order to proof the abovementioned hypothesis. Examples include articles and cartoons from satirical periodicals of the 1940s such as «Il Bertoldo», which was published in Milan, and «Ulenspiegel», which was published in Berlin. Furthermore the author analyzes comments posted by readers of on-line newspapers in relation to the recent lawsuit taken by Pope Benedict XVI against the German satirical magazines «Titanic».
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The paper draws a historical portrait of literary satire in Italy from 1830 up to the achievement of Italian unification. Through four paragraphs, I will discuss Carlo Bini’s gloomy reinterpretation ...of Sterne’s style; Giacomo Leopardi’s Neapolitan satirical experience during his last years of life; Giuseppe Giusti’s “Scherzi”; and the connection between humor and satire in Milan during the ten years before the unification.
Political humour is employed to define the boundaries between opposing political groups and to express discontent against politicians and political acts. The sociopolitical context of its production ...and circulation not only influences its form, content, functions, and targets, but also determines whether it will be accepted, banned, or manipulated to serve the political agendas of certain groups. Hence, political humour becomes a ritual site where political identities are constantly constructed and (re)negotiated. Drawing on studies coming from different sociocultural communities, the authors underline the variety of humorous genres and communicative functions related to political humour, while they point out that humour research needs to look beyond the metapragmatic stereotype often surrounding the use of humour in politics.
The satire against Authority can provide a special understanding of contemporary history of Arab countries, especially exploring humour expressions before, during and after the 2011 revolts. After an ...historical review of satirical expressions in the MENA region in XX century, this study investigate the role that humour and satire played in particular during the Tunisian and Egyptian revolts. Even during the rough and brutal moments of the riots, Tunisians and Egyptians could laugh at the fading power of Ben Alì and Mubarak, testifying their pungent derision of the regimes. Their fall has therefore consented a wider degree of freedom of expression including various forms of humour, chiefly satirical, that nowadays, especially on web sites, provide a parallel overview of recent events.
In Italy, the satirical press has always had a wide readership. The historians, on the contrary, rarely have used the satirical press as a source in their studies, although it is a key source to ...history of mentality. More than any other means of expression, satire requires the complicity of his audience. The satirist, whether he want coax or whether disturb his readers, must confront with their mentality and he must start from it to develop the ways of expression and the content of the message. During the giolittian age the difficulty of building a successful relationship between the government and the citizens created the conditions for the diffusion of a general dissatisfaction with the ruling class and politics in general. In this context, the satire has played a significant role to represent the public opinion and it has offered a framework to the anti-politics feeling to express themselves. Looking to the pages of the «Travaso delle idee», a famous satirical magazine, we can be study and understand the mentality of middle class, and we can derive a paradigm of anti-politic rhetoric declined from satire.
The adverse effects of lodging on light interception, canopy photosynthesis and yield were evaluated during grain filling in modern irrigated rice and modern deepwater rice (DWR) cultivars. Lodging, ...i.e. the reduction in plant canopy height due to bending of the shoot from vertical, occurred in canopies of modern irrigated and DWR growing in the field under tropical conditions and ranged from 0 to 42% of canopies which were held erect using nets; this was associated with yield reductions of up to 2 t ha
−1. A 1% reduction in grain yield occurred for every 2% lodging when data from different seasons, cultivars, and lodging treatments were plotted together. Lodging treatments which reduced canopy height by 75% (75% lodging) resulted in a suboptimal stratified light interception of the canopy. In lodged and non-lodged canopies, more than 80% of light was intercepted within the top 5 cm and 80 cm of canopies respectively. Lodging reduced canopy photosynthesis by 60 to 80% relative to erect canopies of DWR and irrigated rice respectively, and for DWR the reductions in canopy photosynthesis gave predicted reductions in yield which were equivalent to the measured yield. Data are used to support the hypothesis that the adverse effects of lodging during grain filling are largely the result of self-shading by leaves and panicles.
Grotesque Anatomies is a study of Menippean satire in English since the Renaissance. It consists of revisionist, close readings of canonical works such as Eliots The Waste Land and Popes Dunciad ...among others, and investigates how identifying them as Menippean satires changes our understanding of them. The initial chapter offers a comprehensive account of the form from antiquity to the present day, identifying its bifurcated development in the shorter form (Seneca-Lucian-Julian) and the long.
Primjenjujući teoriju konceptualne integracije, u ovom se radu analizira nastajanje značenja satiričkog teksta koji ismijava jezik kojim se koriste političari kako bi uobličili rasprave o trenutačnim ...političkim i društvenim problemima. Rad se bavi jezikom kojim se koristi Donald Trump kako bi predstavio svoje antiimigracijske stavove pjesmom temeljenom na basni o farmeru i zmiji i satiričnim tekstom koji daje novu verziju pjesme, te kritizira Trumpovu politiku vezanu za imigraciju. Rad istražuje nastajanje humorističnog značenja ovog teksta u konceptualnoj integraciji. Ovo značenje nastaje u integriranom prostoru zbog neobične kombinacije povezanih struktura što rezultira nastajanjem nekongruentnosti u integriranom prostoru (Coulson 2002; Marín-Arrese 2003). Nadalje, kako se blending može koristiti kao retoričko sredstvo koje može utjecati na javnost da promijeni stvarnost, čak i da djeluje (Coulson 2006; Coulson i Oakley 2006; Coulson i Pascual 2006; Oakley i Coulson 2008), analiza nastajanja značenja ovog satiričnog teksta kao proizvoda konceptualne integracije može otkriti retoričke ciljeve u političkom diskursu
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