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Browsing by Subject "Satire"

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    Hunting literary legacies: captatio in Roman satire
    (2012-12) Woods, Heather A.
    Legacy hunting (or captatio) is the practice of insinuating oneself into the will of a wealthy (usually childless) individual through various types of attention (including flattery, social deference, political, legal, or moral support, and even sexual favors). This dissertation examines the three most substantial legacy hunting narratives in Latin literature (Horace Sermones 2.5, the end of Petronius' Satyrica, and Juvenal Satire 12) to discover the metaliterary meaning of captatio in these satiric texts through the transformation of metaphors used to describe this practice.
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    Participatory satire? political humor, the Colbert Super PAC Project, and the colliding worlds of late night comedy and modern American politics
    (2012-09) Gilkerson, Nathan David
    Late night humor and satire is playing an increasingly significant role within our culture and political landscape. Most recently, comedians Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart have gone beyond the role satirists traditionally have played in skewering and making fun of politics -- and instead have started becoming prominent participants and activists within the political process itself. This dissertation closely examines the developments of the Colbert Super PAC project and investigates how Colbert's efforts have transformed the traditional role of political satire into something new and unique within the American political landscape. The research examines this phenomenon to gain an understanding of the motives and intent behind the Colbert Super PAC, as well as perceptions and understanding of this "participatory satire" among those within the journalism and campaign finance reform communities. Additionally the perspectives of several leading campaign election law experts are explored, along with analysis of media coverage focused on the Colbert Super PAC effort. Along with connections to existing theories within mass communication and political psychology, potential implications for this unique form of political humor within our democracy and future national political debates are discussed.
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    The Roots of NEP Satire: The Case of Teffi and Zoshchenko
    (Charles Schlacks, 2007) Haber, Edythe C.
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    Satirizing The Audience: Shakespeare And The Uses Of Obscurity, 1594-1601
    (2020-05) Juberg, Marc
    This dissertation examines Shakespeare’s techniques of formal obscurity in four plays: Love’s Labour’s Lost, As You Like It, Hamlet, and Troilus and Cressida. Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Juberg shows, attached specific satirical and aesthetic functions to deliberately obscure writing. As satire migrated from page to stage in the last decade of the 16th century, Shakespeare recombined the generic codes and conventionally confusing language of print satire to create his own type of satirical theater, with which he challenged prevailing norms of literary and theatrical interpretation and tested the limits of audience understanding.