The topic of laughter has been under academic scrutiny for centuries. As John Morreall once said: “There has never been a time in Western history that humour and laughter were not topics of intellectual debate and interest.” This is undeniably a true statement, for the literature of laughter has taken many forms throughout time. However, this is not to suggest that a comedy written within a particular time period is prone to being construed as devoid of relatable humour or wit by subsequent time
Satire and irony have a long and storied history in Europe. This year, we briefly analysed Voltaire, a french writer and poet who used these literary devices to criticize the crooked society in which he lived. The American heir to this european tradition is Mark Twain, the first American writer to be known and read all around the world. Twain’s writing ridicules romantic literature, the writing of many of the famous british writers of the time. Through different types of irony and satire, he manages
Intertextual relationships between texts take place on a number of different levels, both implicitly and explicitly. Exchange of meaning creates a dialogue between two, at times, contextually varied works. This variance highlights the hegemonic values and attitudes of each text at the time of production. When comparing Jane Austen’s regency novel Pride and Prejudice and Fay Weldon’s 1984 text, Letters to Alice, the long-standing preoccupation with individualism and its relationship to social order
Tolebi Kalybek Student React Paper Woman’s role in the society is one of the most discussed topics in the 20th and 21st century. There are huge number of writers and activists, who argues traditional woman’s role in the society, that studied this phenomenon in different times. Mary McCarthy and Judy Brady also participated and left their sign in the promoting woman’s role in modern society. Mary McCarthy’s essay “The Weeds” was published in 1944 and describes the situation of status of women in society
all the dumb things women do for attention. The music video includes multiple characters who alter their appearance because the media instills that women should look a specific way. In Pink’s music video, “Stupid Girls,” she successfully uses satire on women in order to empower the next generation to defy the stereotypes and be unique. Pink, whose real name is Alecia Moore, is a popular music
Poetry will probably always be part of human creativity, even when it is not exclusive to itself. From rhyming and prose to short-structured narratives, it will always appear in one way or another. Its understandable why it has been so popular in the past. In times when it was a form of entertainment most easily accessible only up until the last 150 years or so, it was a form of expression that just about anyone, at any social class or upbringing, could grasp, understand and experience. There is
all-American families have always been depicted in the media as working class heterosexual couples with several obedient and loving children. While this traditional family ideal is still evident in media culture today, television shows in the 21st century have begun to redefine this stereotype. With the legalization of same-sex marriage and trending topics regarding fertility issues like surrogacy and in vitro fertilization, the image of an all-American family unit is changing rapidly. These transitions