By Ruben Quintero
This number of twenty-nine unique essays, surveys satire from its emergence in Western literature to the current.
- Tracks satire from its first appearances within the prophetic books of the outdated testomony throughout the Renaissance and the English culture in satire to Michael Moore’s satirical motion picture Fahrenheit September 11 .
- Highlights the real impact of the Bible within the literary and cultural improvement of Western satire.
- Focused ordinarily on significant classical and ecu impacts on and works of English satire, but additionally explores the advanced and fertile cultural cross-semination in the culture of literary satire.
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A Companion to Satire: Ancient and Modern
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As the exchange with his friends continues, the sarcasm and the satire of the four increase, because Job’s three friends cannot admit the theology-shattering possibility for them that the innocent might indeed suffer. To suggest the vacuous and the insubstantial, the disputants trade deprecating wind imagery back and forth among themselves anticipating by centuries the same Swift-like image that courses through A Tale of a Tub (1704) to picture the inane and the unconvincing (a basic image in Ecclesiastes as well).
From my high-school days, I have always found that a very funny response, an apparently thorough non sequitur covering an embarrassing moment in a talk that has turned decidedly personal and intimate. At an older period of my life, I know now that the woman’s comments were not as off the point as I had once thought. Like many readers of the Bible, I had assumed that a prophet was in the business of prediction, foretelling the future. What could the Samaritan woman have meant by calling Jesus a prophet, a designation frequently applied to him by those who heard his message?
1) Satire, prophecy, conduct books, sermon, editorial – what do they have in common? A content comprised of criticism or judgment. As Northrop Frye observes in his analysis of satire in the Anatomy of Criticism: ‘‘essential to satire . . ’’ What distinguishes satire from the attack or judgment that might appear in an editorial or the like is a second essential feature: ‘‘wit or humor founded on fantasy or a sense of the grotesque or absurd’’ (1968: 224). Satire seeks to make its criticism funny and does so by employing the empirically impossible or unlikely.