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Tag Archives | satire
The New Kindle 3
This looks like something that every one of my students would enjoy. Finally, a technology to get even the most apathetic student reading. What can’t digital technology accomplish? I also like their tagline: “So advanced, even illiterates can use it!”
Palin & Clinton on SNL
SNL is back, and they started strong. I knew Tina Fey would respond in some way.
Double Standards
I was accused of employing a double-standard a couple of days ago in my post about Sarah and Bristol Palin (See the comments). What great serendipity that The Daily Show ran a segment about this very thing, featuring three of my favorite talking heads: Karl Rove, Dick Morris, and Bill O’Reilly. Thanks, Jon Stewart, for [...]
Essay on Critical Man
With this conclusion in his Essay on Man, Pope’s Essay on Criticism seemingly becomes irrelevant. I am interested here in how Whatever is, is right relates to criticism and writing. Rather than negating criticism altogether, Whatever is, is right only supports the critic’s endeavor further.
The Satirist’s Character and Role
The satirist in the works of Alexander Pope takes on several significant roles with concomitant responsibilities. The defense of Virtue is paramount to the satirist, above all other considerations, even death: “Welcome for thee, fair Virtue! all the past: / For thee, fair Virtue! welcome ev’n the last.”
Formal Verse Satire
A satiric mode developed by the Roman poets Lucilius, Horace, Persius, and Juvenal. The formal verse satire is generally considered the only species, or sub-genre, of the genus satire to possess any kind of identifiable or consistent form. The Roman formal verse satire consists of an outer frame or “shell” made up of the satirist, [...]