In the Post-Independence era,the prolific playwrights of India started using the aesthetic form of theater to contest authoritarian structures,and to voice their antiestablishment dissent.Utpal Dutt,a pioneering figur...
As representatives of Chinese and Western satirical literature,Mark Twain’s Running for Governor and Wu Jing-zi’s The Scholars are very prominent in satirical art.With comparative analysis between these great works,...
Satire writing in news comes in with a lot of humour yet and a lot of truth telling.In Lesotho newspapers,Lesotho Times has the Scrutator column and The Post has Muckracker.These are the columns that play the role of ...
This paper makes a comparison between English and Chinese humour and satire in subtitle translation and points outsome problems from both similar and distinctive perspectives by adopting three strategies—assimilation...
Picaresque novel as a genre is usually traced back to the anonymous Lazarillo de Tormes, but mystery surrounds the origin of this paradoxical narrative that appeared in 1554. In particular, the techniques of irony and...
Amharic folk literature is a time-honoured tradition dating back to the imperial songs of the 14th and 15th centuries. One of these subgenres is Amharic folk poetry which is permeated with the political, social, econo...
This thesis aims to study Jonathan Swift's satirical rhetoric of Gulliver's Travels and persons can know clearly about themselves through satirizing. This paper comes to a conclusion as follows: First, the rhetoric of...
This article is a briefly description of humor&satire in Mark Twain’s work:The Adventure of Huckberry Finn.Mark Twain’s humor&satire is the typical American style one,using colloquial language and slang in his own w...
The film Birdman was a great success for its writing, direction, performances and cinematography. It tells the story of a former-famous actor's struggle to cope with his current life. One continuous take is used to il...