Mark Twain, a mastermind of humor and realism, is seen as a giant in world literature. His humorous satire had great impact on the following men of letters; critics also attached significant importance to it and put f...Mark Twain, a mastermind of humor and realism, is seen as a giant in world literature. His humorous satire had great impact on the following men of letters; critics also attached significant importance to it and put forward various interpretations. Noticeably, his humor ous satire finds full expression in his famous short story, Running for Governor. In it, with humor and satire, he exposed the true features and hypocrisy of American democracy. The paper tries to analyze the basic elements which affected Mark Twain's humorous satire, aiming at offering rational analysis of this humorous satire in Running for Governor as well as making Twain's works readily understood.展开更多
As one of Jonathan Swift masterpieces, Gulliver's Travels chronicles Lemuel Gulliver's four odd voyages in the form of a travel log. With sharp satire, Swift ridicules vices of England and the whole Europe in ...As one of Jonathan Swift masterpieces, Gulliver's Travels chronicles Lemuel Gulliver's four odd voyages in the form of a travel log. With sharp satire, Swift ridicules vices of England and the whole Europe in the early 18th century. The article ana lyzes the art and specific usage of satiric techniques in Gulliver's Travels.展开更多
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 ...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 providing commentary on any issue trending in the news,more like the editorial but go further to tell the truth but in a manner that lacks seriousness due to the name calling and banter.This study sought to establish the real reason behind satire writing from the point of view of the journalists,newspaper editors,journalism scholars,and consumers of news in Lesotho.The study also sought to explore satire writing in newspaper news in relation to journalism ethics as name calling and labeling is one of the characteristics of satire writing in newspapers.Information was gathered,presented,and analysed qualitatively.Face to face and telephone interviews were carried out with print journalists and their editors as well as with journalism lecturers,journalism students,and newspaper reading citizens.The findings reflect that satire writing is understood differently by society with others regarding it as controversial and others liking it for truth telling.News producers and scholars appreciate it for the license it provides to tell truth outside the straight jacket strictures of political correctness guiding news production.展开更多
英国哲学家怀特黑德（A.Norrth Whitehead）曾说过,Satire is the soured mild of humankindness.（讽刺是人类善良天性酿制的酸奶）。他讲得十分形象。Satire一词源于拉丁语。由于它的涵盖面实在太广,人们对它所下的定义差别很大。作...英国哲学家怀特黑德（A.Norrth Whitehead）曾说过,Satire is the soured mild of humankindness.（讽刺是人类善良天性酿制的酸奶）。他讲得十分形象。Satire一词源于拉丁语。由于它的涵盖面实在太广,人们对它所下的定义差别很大。作为一种修辞格,satire真的象酸奶,用人类善良天性酿造的酸奶,既有营养又有酸味。它揭露邪恶,嘲笑愚蠢。其表达方式是揶揄或嘲弄;其语言或幽默滑稽,或辛辣尖刻;其目的或是引人发笑、令人反省,或是轻蔑斥责,或是嘲笑攻击。satire是一个通用词。根据其尖刻、激烈程度,可将之依次分为innuendo（影射）,satire（讽刺）,sarcasm（讥讽）和idicule（嘲弄）。展开更多
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,...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,this paper makes a contrastive analysis of the differences in the expression of satire between the two,to find deep understanding of satirical literature and the differences in literary satire expression between China and the West.展开更多
Referring to the English literature, nobody can escape the name of Jane Austen, the greatest female writer in the nine teenth century, whose world-famous works have become a household name, such as Sense and Sensibili...Referring to the English literature, nobody can escape the name of Jane Austen, the greatest female writer in the nine teenth century, whose world-famous works have become a household name, such as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. The everlasting charm, which has penetrated through her classics, fascinates readers from generation to generation. In this paper, I mainly focus on her Northanger Abbey, analyzing the use of satire in it, hoping to reveal some of her wits.展开更多
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...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 and dissimilation, teleolo-gy, and functional equivalence. These three strategies are the most commonly seen and used in translation works, and are of signifi-cant value in helping people to understand translated TV subtitles and to promote cross-cultural communication.展开更多
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 rhe...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 satire consists of exaggeration,contrast, irony and so on. Second, the satirical objects are extremely clear. The objects contain the frightful politics, evil colonist,the evil side of Human Nature, and absurd academic system. Third, this paper will analyse from linguistic and narrative of the satire aesthetic significance.展开更多
This paper is built on the study of one key blog-Wang Xiaofeng＇s No Guess （2006-2011） to explore how a Chinese intellectual uses his satirical skills in the blogosphere, how his blog reshapes the form of political ...This paper is built on the study of one key blog-Wang Xiaofeng＇s No Guess （2006-2011） to explore how a Chinese intellectual uses his satirical skills in the blogosphere, how his blog reshapes the form of political culture, and how the blogosphere through such interventions proceeds in the development of political communications in China. Two key issues are addressed in the paper. Firstly, drawing on the concept of ＂blogging culture＂, the author argues that blogging has potentially reconfigured political information around people＇s everyday lives, offering alternative modes of ＂public talk＂. The case of Wang Xiaofeng shows that satire can be used to make fun of the state, policies, and established ideologies, improving a previously restricted communicative environment toward more open. Secondly, the rise in the value placed on individualism in China, and the rise of peer-to-peer media mean that bloggers who pursue self-expression simultaneously through such self-expression. In other words, Wang Xiaofeng＇s No Guess blog demonstrates that individual opinions across the blogosphere have implicitly challenged political discourse; however, they always have to struggle with an ongoing censorship, negotiate an unstable discursive space and thus, can only enjoy a limited success.展开更多
Frau Vockerat:'Aber man muвdoch seine Freude haben knnen an der Kunst.'Johannes;'Man kann viet mehr haben an der Kunst als seine Freude.'Gerhart Hauptmann Wenn einer bei uns einen guten politischen ...Frau Vockerat:'Aber man muвdoch seine Freude haben knnen an der Kunst.'Johannes;'Man kann viet mehr haben an der Kunst als seine Freude.'Gerhart Hauptmann Wenn einer bei uns einen guten politischen Witz macht, dann sitzt halb Deutschland auf dem Sofa und nimmtübel.展开更多
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s maiden work,through which Morrison carried out independent thinking on the question of“What is beauty?”In The Bluest Eye,the image of mixed-blood is characterized as a self-satisfi...The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s maiden work,through which Morrison carried out independent thinking on the question of“What is beauty?”In The Bluest Eye,the image of mixed-blood is characterized as a self-satisfied beautiful girl or lady due to light skin color.However,Morrison shatters their proud aesthetic edifice through satirical techniques.Firstly,this paper starts with the analysis of Shirley Temple on the blue-and-white cup and Mary Jane on candy wrapper as culture goods,in order to reveal the aesthetic standards of the mainstream.Next,through close reading,this paper,taking the example of a high-yellow child Maureen Peal,and the graceful sugar-brown lady Geraldine,makes deep analysis on their sense of superiority and artistic characteristics,and aims to better understand Morrison’s satirical techniques and interpretation of beauty.展开更多
Mark Twain's humorous writing style and thought-provoking satire has great influence on world literature.This paper attempts to explore the satirical art of his short story Is He living or Is He dead?,aiming at sh...Mark Twain's humorous writing style and thought-provoking satire has great influence on world literature.This paper attempts to explore the satirical art of his short story Is He living or Is He dead?,aiming at showing the immortal artistic charm of Mark Twain's works.展开更多
In the West,the rhetoric is an old and young science,which has a history of 2,300 years.With the emergence of rheto ric,the expression of our language became richer and more various.Meanwhile,the expressing capacity o...In the West,the rhetoric is an old and young science,which has a history of 2,300 years.With the emergence of rheto ric,the expression of our language became richer and more various.Meanwhile,the expressing capacity of language became more powerful and dynamic.Therefore,readers can understand what the author wants to express as if they were on the scenes.In the nineteenth-century,critical realism was quite prevalent in Britain.William Makepeace Thackeray was one of the most bril liant stars in this school at that time.His masterpiece Vanity Fair presents us the characteristics of a variety of people in different conditions in detail.The most common figures of speech employed in this novel are irony,satire and humor through which the Vanity Fair can make us laugh,and at the same time,it is thought-provoking.展开更多
This article mainly discuss the language styles in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Colloquial and satire are important language styles in this book. Vanity unquestioning acceptance of violence coward and slave all...This article mainly discuss the language styles in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Colloquial and satire are important language styles in this book. Vanity unquestioning acceptance of violence coward and slave all satire the great national problems; Besides, combination of the colloquial language and satire is also very successful in this novel, which vividly reveal the American society at that time .展开更多
Is He Living,or Is He Dead is a splendid sample of Twain' s bitter satire.By focusing on textual analysis of the story,this thesis is trying to illustrate "surviving by dying",such a paradox of life impl...Is He Living,or Is He Dead is a splendid sample of Twain' s bitter satire.By focusing on textual analysis of the story,this thesis is trying to illustrate "surviving by dying",such a paradox of life implied by Mark Twain,and to reveal the tragic nature masked by the humorous satire in the story.展开更多
Based on Gulliver's four voyages in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels this paper analyzes the author's satirical view of the state of European government and religions,and inquiry into the corruption...Based on Gulliver's four voyages in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels this paper analyzes the author's satirical view of the state of European government and religions,and inquiry into the corruption of men,and his desire to establish a harmonious and democratic Houyhnhm-like society.展开更多
Chaviano＇s Fables of an Extraterrestrial Grandmother is a pioneering Cuban science fiction novel with four interconnected plots that manifest their separate worlds--the Havana of Ana, the protagonist writer, the Neol...Chaviano＇s Fables of an Extraterrestrial Grandmother is a pioneering Cuban science fiction novel with four interconnected plots that manifest their separate worlds--the Havana of Ana, the protagonist writer, the Neolithic Celtic world of Merlin and Stonehenge, Faidir, the planet of Ijj e and the winged psyches with three eyes, and Rybel, the world of Ana＇s character Arlena, the ＂jumen＂ on the run in an alien planet after being wrecked in a space ship---through Ana＇s writing. Ana uses mental exercises and automatic writing to temporarily regress to a pre-rational state of consciousness where these parallel universes interpenetrate and cross in the locus of her subconscious. Writing for her is a form of possession that withdraws her fi＇om her immediate reality into a visionary state resembling that of a shaman. She is a writer being invented and written by her own characters. Her stories are not fictions, but already existing realities, and she is a channel by which they are able to manifest their existence through her writing. This science fiction vision of worlds within worlds suggests another origin of science fiction in the ancient literary genre of Menippean satire, a type of fiction that appeals to highly cosmopolitan, alienated readers who seek to renew contact with the sources of consciousness from which technological and social change have alienated them.展开更多
Few would deny the nobility of an animal which has played a significant role, historically, in the lives of humankind： the fabled unicorn, the Trojan Horse, and Pegasus, together with the Houyhnhnms of Jonathan Swift...Few would deny the nobility of an animal which has played a significant role, historically, in the lives of humankind： the fabled unicorn, the Trojan Horse, and Pegasus, together with the Houyhnhnms of Jonathan Swift are testaments to the nobility of horses. In a modern context, Seabiscuit, Black Beauty, Silver, steed of the iconic Lone Ranger, and Tir na nog, from Irish folk tale history, have maintained the tradition of nobility. High comedic elements such as TV＇s Mr. Ed, Aspercel, from The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit （1968）, Ollie, of Laurel and Hardy fame, reincarnated as a horse, and Tir na nog, hiding in an elevator to avoid being apprehended by the law, help to complete the comedic portrait of equine nobility展开更多
文摘Mark Twain, a mastermind of humor and realism, is seen as a giant in world literature. His humorous satire had great impact on the following men of letters; critics also attached significant importance to it and put forward various interpretations. Noticeably, his humor ous satire finds full expression in his famous short story, Running for Governor. In it, with humor and satire, he exposed the true features and hypocrisy of American democracy. The paper tries to analyze the basic elements which affected Mark Twain's humorous satire, aiming at offering rational analysis of this humorous satire in Running for Governor as well as making Twain's works readily understood.
文摘As one of Jonathan Swift masterpieces, Gulliver's Travels chronicles Lemuel Gulliver's four odd voyages in the form of a travel log. With sharp satire, Swift ridicules vices of England and the whole Europe in the early 18th century. The article ana lyzes the art and specific usage of satiric techniques in Gulliver's Travels.
文摘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 providing commentary on any issue trending in the news,more like the editorial but go further to tell the truth but in a manner that lacks seriousness due to the name calling and banter.This study sought to establish the real reason behind satire writing from the point of view of the journalists,newspaper editors,journalism scholars,and consumers of news in Lesotho.The study also sought to explore satire writing in newspaper news in relation to journalism ethics as name calling and labeling is one of the characteristics of satire writing in newspapers.Information was gathered,presented,and analysed qualitatively.Face to face and telephone interviews were carried out with print journalists and their editors as well as with journalism lecturers,journalism students,and newspaper reading citizens.The findings reflect that satire writing is understood differently by society with others regarding it as controversial and others liking it for truth telling.News producers and scholars appreciate it for the license it provides to tell truth outside the straight jacket strictures of political correctness guiding news production.
文摘英国哲学家怀特黑德（A.Norrth Whitehead）曾说过,Satire is the soured mild of humankindness.（讽刺是人类善良天性酿制的酸奶）。他讲得十分形象。Satire一词源于拉丁语。由于它的涵盖面实在太广,人们对它所下的定义差别很大。作为一种修辞格,satire真的象酸奶,用人类善良天性酿造的酸奶,既有营养又有酸味。它揭露邪恶,嘲笑愚蠢。其表达方式是揶揄或嘲弄;其语言或幽默滑稽,或辛辣尖刻;其目的或是引人发笑、令人反省,或是轻蔑斥责,或是嘲笑攻击。satire是一个通用词。根据其尖刻、激烈程度,可将之依次分为innuendo（影射）,satire（讽刺）,sarcasm（讥讽）和idicule（嘲弄）。
文摘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,this paper makes a contrastive analysis of the differences in the expression of satire between the two,to find deep understanding of satirical literature and the differences in literary satire expression between China and the West.
文摘Referring to the English literature, nobody can escape the name of Jane Austen, the greatest female writer in the nine teenth century, whose world-famous works have become a household name, such as Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma. The everlasting charm, which has penetrated through her classics, fascinates readers from generation to generation. In this paper, I mainly focus on her Northanger Abbey, analyzing the use of satire in it, hoping to reveal some of her wits.
文摘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 and dissimilation, teleolo-gy, and functional equivalence. These three strategies are the most commonly seen and used in translation works, and are of signifi-cant value in helping people to understand translated TV subtitles and to promote cross-cultural communication.
文摘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 satire consists of exaggeration,contrast, irony and so on. Second, the satirical objects are extremely clear. The objects contain the frightful politics, evil colonist,the evil side of Human Nature, and absurd academic system. Third, this paper will analyse from linguistic and narrative of the satire aesthetic significance.
文摘This paper is built on the study of one key blog-Wang Xiaofeng＇s No Guess （2006-2011） to explore how a Chinese intellectual uses his satirical skills in the blogosphere, how his blog reshapes the form of political culture, and how the blogosphere through such interventions proceeds in the development of political communications in China. Two key issues are addressed in the paper. Firstly, drawing on the concept of ＂blogging culture＂, the author argues that blogging has potentially reconfigured political information around people＇s everyday lives, offering alternative modes of ＂public talk＂. The case of Wang Xiaofeng shows that satire can be used to make fun of the state, policies, and established ideologies, improving a previously restricted communicative environment toward more open. Secondly, the rise in the value placed on individualism in China, and the rise of peer-to-peer media mean that bloggers who pursue self-expression simultaneously through such self-expression. In other words, Wang Xiaofeng＇s No Guess blog demonstrates that individual opinions across the blogosphere have implicitly challenged political discourse; however, they always have to struggle with an ongoing censorship, negotiate an unstable discursive space and thus, can only enjoy a limited success.
文摘Frau Vockerat:'Aber man muвdoch seine Freude haben knnen an der Kunst.'Johannes;'Man kann viet mehr haben an der Kunst als seine Freude.'Gerhart Hauptmann Wenn einer bei uns einen guten politischen Witz macht, dann sitzt halb Deutschland auf dem Sofa und nimmtübel.
文摘The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison’s maiden work,through which Morrison carried out independent thinking on the question of“What is beauty?”In The Bluest Eye,the image of mixed-blood is characterized as a self-satisfied beautiful girl or lady due to light skin color.However,Morrison shatters their proud aesthetic edifice through satirical techniques.Firstly,this paper starts with the analysis of Shirley Temple on the blue-and-white cup and Mary Jane on candy wrapper as culture goods,in order to reveal the aesthetic standards of the mainstream.Next,through close reading,this paper,taking the example of a high-yellow child Maureen Peal,and the graceful sugar-brown lady Geraldine,makes deep analysis on their sense of superiority and artistic characteristics,and aims to better understand Morrison’s satirical techniques and interpretation of beauty.
文摘Mark Twain's humorous writing style and thought-provoking satire has great influence on world literature.This paper attempts to explore the satirical art of his short story Is He living or Is He dead?,aiming at showing the immortal artistic charm of Mark Twain's works.
文摘In the West,the rhetoric is an old and young science,which has a history of 2,300 years.With the emergence of rheto ric,the expression of our language became richer and more various.Meanwhile,the expressing capacity of language became more powerful and dynamic.Therefore,readers can understand what the author wants to express as if they were on the scenes.In the nineteenth-century,critical realism was quite prevalent in Britain.William Makepeace Thackeray was one of the most bril liant stars in this school at that time.His masterpiece Vanity Fair presents us the characteristics of a variety of people in different conditions in detail.The most common figures of speech employed in this novel are irony,satire and humor through which the Vanity Fair can make us laugh,and at the same time,it is thought-provoking.
文摘This article mainly discuss the language styles in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Colloquial and satire are important language styles in this book. Vanity unquestioning acceptance of violence coward and slave all satire the great national problems; Besides, combination of the colloquial language and satire is also very successful in this novel, which vividly reveal the American society at that time .
文摘Is He Living,or Is He Dead is a splendid sample of Twain' s bitter satire.By focusing on textual analysis of the story,this thesis is trying to illustrate "surviving by dying",such a paradox of life implied by Mark Twain,and to reveal the tragic nature masked by the humorous satire in the story.
文摘Based on Gulliver's four voyages in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels this paper analyzes the author's satirical view of the state of European government and religions,and inquiry into the corruption of men,and his desire to establish a harmonious and democratic Houyhnhm-like society.
文摘Chaviano＇s Fables of an Extraterrestrial Grandmother is a pioneering Cuban science fiction novel with four interconnected plots that manifest their separate worlds--the Havana of Ana, the protagonist writer, the Neolithic Celtic world of Merlin and Stonehenge, Faidir, the planet of Ijj e and the winged psyches with three eyes, and Rybel, the world of Ana＇s character Arlena, the ＂jumen＂ on the run in an alien planet after being wrecked in a space ship---through Ana＇s writing. Ana uses mental exercises and automatic writing to temporarily regress to a pre-rational state of consciousness where these parallel universes interpenetrate and cross in the locus of her subconscious. Writing for her is a form of possession that withdraws her fi＇om her immediate reality into a visionary state resembling that of a shaman. She is a writer being invented and written by her own characters. Her stories are not fictions, but already existing realities, and she is a channel by which they are able to manifest their existence through her writing. This science fiction vision of worlds within worlds suggests another origin of science fiction in the ancient literary genre of Menippean satire, a type of fiction that appeals to highly cosmopolitan, alienated readers who seek to renew contact with the sources of consciousness from which technological and social change have alienated them.
文摘Few would deny the nobility of an animal which has played a significant role, historically, in the lives of humankind： the fabled unicorn, the Trojan Horse, and Pegasus, together with the Houyhnhnms of Jonathan Swift are testaments to the nobility of horses. In a modern context, Seabiscuit, Black Beauty, Silver, steed of the iconic Lone Ranger, and Tir na nog, from Irish folk tale history, have maintained the tradition of nobility. High comedic elements such as TV＇s Mr. Ed, Aspercel, from The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit （1968）, Ollie, of Laurel and Hardy fame, reincarnated as a horse, and Tir na nog, hiding in an elevator to avoid being apprehended by the law, help to complete the comedic portrait of equine nobility
