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Hume, Kathryn. "Diffused Satire in Contemporary American Fiction." Modern Philology 105, no. 2 (2007): 300–325. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/588102.

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Reynolds, Katherine, Robert Schwartz, and Beverly Bower. "Fear and Laughing in Campus Literature: Contemporary Messages from a Comedic Tradition." Journal of Educational Thought / Revue de la Pensée Educative 34, no. 1 (2018): 29–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.55016/ojs/jet.v34i1.52606.

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Twentieth century American literature has presented us with an impressive body of humorous fiction situated in the work and culture of higher education. An examination of some of the most popular and noteworthy texts in this genre reveals important messages that locate such fictional humor as complaint, comedy, and catharsis. However, in its determination to both vent and entertain, this literature generally does not rise to the instrumental levels of pure satire. Rather, it acts more as a wake-up call than a call to arms concerning the peculiarities, sometimes absurdities, of academic life.

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Muttaleb, Fuad Abdul, Ashraf Waleed Mansour, and Ala Shdouh. "Dreams and Disillusionment: A Critique of the American Dream in American Fiction." Journal of Ecohumanism 3, no. 7 (2024): 2815–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.62754/joe.v3i7.4419.

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This paper examines the vanity and consequences of the American Dream in four novels: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, Jack London's The Iron Heel, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. A socio-political analysis of these authors and their works exposes the hollow nature of the dream. The Jungle is discussed from a racial and economic perspective, highlighting the plight of Jurgis and his Lithuanian family who are disillusioned in their pursuit of success. The Iron Heel is examined politically, showcasing the struggle between the capitalist class and wor

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Bacci, Francesco. "Contemporary Black Campus Novels: Between Nostalgia and Counter-Nostalgia." East-West Cultural Passage 22, no. 1 (2022): 140–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ewcp-2022-0007.

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Abstract In its vast range of variants, the genre of the campus novel continues to thrive and be reinvented by contemporary writers. This essay focuses on a specific subgenre, the contemporary Black campus novel, and I intend to analyze compelling examples of the dualism of nostalgia and counter-nostalgia. While some of these campus-set stories are centered on, for example, murder mysteries and social satire, generally the Black campus novel has a more specific focus: the fictional and satirical representation of Black students and academics at university, constituting a window into the social

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Caplan, Jennifer. "Baal Sham Tov." Bulletin for the Study of Religion 42, no. 3 (2013): 11–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v42i3.11.

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Woody Allen has long been seen as a definitive voice in American Jewish humor because of his films, but his short fiction has been largely ignored. An analysis of his fiction can, however, yield strong indications that while Allen himself may be an atheist, his prose owes a great debt to his religious upbringing and his ongoing religious literacy. This essay take a closer look at one particular story to note the ways in which Allen encounters religion in his fiction and uses his knowledge of Jewish scriptural forms to enhance the reader's experience of his satire. In this story, consisting of

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Balce, Nerissa S. "Laughter Against the state: On Humor, Postcolonial Satire, and Asian American Short Fiction." Journal of Asian American Studies 19, no. 1 (2016): 47–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jaas.2016.0012.

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Stulov, Yuri V. "Contemporary African American Historical Novel." Literature of the Americas, no. 14 (2023): 75–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-7894-2023-14-75-99.

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The paper discusses the works of African American writers of the end of the 1960s — the end of the 2010s that address the historical past of African Americans and explores the traumatic experience of slavery and its consequences. The tragedy of people subjected to slavery as well as their masters who challenged the moral and ethical norms has remained the topical issue of contemporary African American historical novel. Pivotal for the development of the genre of African American historical novel were Jubilee by the outstanding writer and poet Margaret Walker and the non-fiction novel Roots by

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Moraru, C. "Unvarnishing Reality: Subversive Russian and American Cold War Satire / On Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War." American Literature 85, no. 2 (2013): 409–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079242.

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Yakovenko, Iryna. "The Fictional and the Factual in Alexander J. Motyl’s Who Killed Andrei Warhol: The American Diary of a Soviet Journalist." Roczniki Humanistyczne 72, no. 11 Zeszyt specjalny (2024): 119–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rh247211.10s.

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The article addresses the 2007 novel Who Killed Andrei Warhol: The American Diary of a Soviet Journalist by Alexander J. Motyl, analyzing its literary representations of the factual and the counterfactual. In his comic narrative about the past, constructed in the form of a diary of a Soviet journalist, Motyl blurs the line between historical and fictionalized facts. As a result, fictional characters (journalist Ivanov, Soviet communists Kelebek and Kolibri, Katyusha) and historical persons (Andy Warhol, Julia Zawacka, Valerie Solanas, Gus Hall, Morris Childs) co-exist on equal footing. Motyl’s

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Lushnikova, Galina I., and Tatiana Iu Osadchaia. "Anti-Utopian Outlook in The Every by Dave Eggers." SibScript 27, no. 1 (2025): 49–58. https://doi.org/10.21603/sibscript-2025-27-1-49-58.

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The Every (2021) is an anti-utopian novel by a contemporary American writer Dave Eggers. The study relied on domestic and foreign research on the issues of artistic worldview, as well as on the genres of utopia, antiutopia, and dystopia. Modern anti-utopian fiction still remains understudied from the artistic outlook perspective. The research objective was to determine the key features of the anti-utopian worldview and analyze how they were implemented in the novel. Eggers’ world of the future is a possible world implemented through the system of images and ideas. It differs from other anti-ut

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Parmar, Shipra, and Dr Reetika Sood. "COMEDY OF IDEAS: STUDY OF OZICK’S BLOODSHED AND THREE NOVELLAS." ShodhKosh: Journal of Visual and Performing Arts 3, no. 1 (2022): 498–506. http://dx.doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v3.i1.2022.91.

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Cynthia Ozick is an emphatic voice of new Jewish American novels who reveals various issues that a Jew has to face while living in a mainstream American culture. She advocates ethnicity and chooses the comic mode to reveal the truth. The present paper aims at the in-depth study of the second collection of short stories "Bloodshed and three Novellas'. In these stories Ozick which focuses on the betrayal of tradition by Jews. She brings out the hilarious situations and ideas by focusing on various flaws and blemishes in the personalities of her characters. She also mocks at their defective physi

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Wolfson, Roberta. "Race Leaders, Race Traitors, and the Necropolitics of Black Exceptionalism in Paul Beatty’s Fiction." American Literature 91, no. 3 (2019): 619–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7722152.

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Abstract This essay examines two oppositional figures in Paul Beatty’s debut novel, The White Boy Shuffle (1996), and most recent novel, The Sellout (2015): the exalted race leader and the excoriated race traitor. Positioned at extreme ends of the spectrum of exceptionalism, these figures function to perpetuate a phenomenon that the essay’s author terms the necropolitics of black exceptionalism, the paradox of justifying the violent oppression of the majority of black people by celebrating or censuring a single black figure. In exploring the absurd dimensions of these extreme figures through t

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Zibrak, Arielle. "Power of Body / Power of Mind: Arts and Crafts, New Thought, and Popular Women’s Literature at the Fin de Siècle." American Literature 93, no. 4 (2021): 601–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9520194.

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Abstract The article describes the impact of two popular fin de siècle philosophical movements—Arts and Crafts and New Thought—on both well-known authors like Frank Norris and Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the lesser-known writers it reads more closely: Ella Wheeler Wilcox and Madeline Yale Wynne. Although their values were antithetical, Arts and Crafts and New Thought shared striking similarities in the ways they yoked consumption habits to personal well-being and used fiction to understand and endorse popular secular philosophies. These women-led movements shaped enduring national ideologies

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Stulov, Yu V. "Factual basis of Colson Whitehead’s novels." Philology and Culture, no. 3 (October 5, 2023): 182–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.26907/2782-4756-2023-73-3-182-188.

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Twice Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead bases the plot of his novels on various facts of American reality found in documents and newspaper publications. By juxtaposing fact and fiction, he transforms them to create a new reality, rooted in the events of real life but acquiring a universal or metaphorical character that could be seen even in his early works. In “John Henry Days” (2001) the writer makes use of the legend of the famous black laborer John Henry, its reflection in the folklore and everyday life of the American South and attempts to up-sell it in today’s USA with the help of so

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Balakrishnan, Manjula. "Humour and Fear : a Study of the humoristic Resourcesin Wilde’s The Canterville Ghost." Epos : Revista de filología, no. 27 (January 1, 2011): 207. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/epos.27.2011.10677.

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This study examines in detail the alternance of humour and horror in the story The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, and the manner in which the author was always able to obtain the desired result, changing his approach to the theme. It studies the story contribution to the parody of the horror genre, mentioning the cliches which are commonly used in this type of fiction and of which Wilde makes continuous mockery. It also reviews his satire of the American society, which is in constant conflict with the values of the traditional English society. Finally, the article includes a detailed accoun

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Mushtaque, Munawwar, Mohd Rizwanullah, Muneer Alam, and Dr Shagufta Anjum. "A Critical Discourse on Exploring Washington Irving’s Motive in the Representation of Arabesque Tradition." Scholars International Journal of Linguistics and Literature 5, no. 12 (2022): 470–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.36348/sijll.2022.v05i12.009.

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Washington Irving was the first American to gain international recognition for his remarkable creation, Rip Van Winkle, and is the best known and best loved of American folklore characters. Washington Ring was not only a brilliant historian, but he was also a superb biographer. During his first three and a half years in Spain, he spent a lot of time reading extensively. The majority of his time was spent at the library, and the subjects of his research notes were Arabs and Arab culture. In this study, we will investigate the personal and cultural factors that led Washington Irving to write abo

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Paglinawan, Reah Izza, and Hanafi Hussin. "Phases of Filipino Proletarianism in the 20th Century Dagling Tagalog: A Critique Using Pierre Macherey’s Theory of Gaps and Silences." Southeastern Philippines Journal of Research and Development 29, no. 1 (2024): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.53899/spjrd.v29i1.261.

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Self-image is deeply rooted in one’s place in society, as manifested in one’s involvement in its facets and realities which are spoken of in literature, and yet it is the “unspoken” or the “unsaid”– the gaps and silences in the texts– that exposes the ‘unconscious’ of the work where lies a text’s repressed historical narrative and discourse. Accordingly, this study was targeted toward the deep understanding of how Filipinos see themselves and each other as Filipinos (self-image and self-identity) during the American colonization in the Philippines in the 20th century, specifically as proletari

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Obidič, Andrejka. "Margaret Atwood’s Postcolonial and Postmodern Feminist Novels with Psychological and Mythic Influences: The Archetypal Analysis of the Novel Surfacing." Acta Neophilologica 50, no. 1-2 (2017): 5–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.50.1-2.5-24.

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The paper analyzes Margaret Atwood’s postcolonial and postmodern feminist novels from the psychological perspective of Carl Gustav Jung’s theory of archetypes and from the perspective of Robert Graves’s mythological figures of the triple goddess presented in his work The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth (1997). In this regard, the paper focuses on the mythic and psychological roles embodied and played by Atwood’s victimized female protagonists who actively seek their identity and professional self-realization on their path towards personal evolution in the North American patr

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Booker, M. Keith. "Strange Fruit: Menippean Laughter and the Gothic Return of the Past in Percival Everett’s The Trees." American Gothic Studies 1, no. 1 (2025): 46–62. https://doi.org/10.5325/ags.1.1.0046.

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Abstract Percival Everett’s The Trees (2021) is a complex postmodern novel that incorporates a variety of genres, motifs, and tones. In many ways, The Trees is a classic example of both Gothic fiction and Menippean satire, serving as an excellent illustration of the extensive common ground shared by these two phenomena. It is built from classic Gothic tropes and concerns, including its central emphasis on race and racism, as well as its focus on the restoration of the memory of those who have been victims of the grim history of lynching in America. But the entire novel is delivered in an irrev

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Snehasta and Shakshi Saini. "Interrogating Historical Reality through the Dystopian Lens of <i>The Handmaid’s Tale</i> and <i>The Testaments</i>." Creative Saplings 4, no. 6 (2025): 40–53. https://doi.org/10.56062//gtrs.2025.4.06.993.

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Throughout history, oppressive regimes, theocratic governments, and extreme patriarchal control have shaped societies like those usually depicted in dystopian fiction. The Puritan theocracy in early America, the Islamic Revolution in Iran, and the persecution of women worldwide serve as real-life parallels to the imagined horrors reflected in The Handmaid’s Tale. The novel explores the future scenario of prevailing societal trends if they are extended to their ultimate consequences. Margaret Atwood examines the historical precedents through satire and parody to critique the selective and const

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Popescu, Veronica Tatiana. "Dictatorship, Machismo, and the Cuban Exile Drama in a Tragicomic Mode: Cristina García’s King of Cuba." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Philologia 66, no. 2 (2021): 127–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbphilo.2021.2.09.

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"Dictatorship, Machismo, and the Cuban Exile Drama in a Tragicomic Mode: Cristina García’s King of Cuba. Three years before the death of Fidel Castro, Cuban American author Cristina García published a fictional account of the Cuban dictator’s death in a darkly funny and sentimental story of intertwined destinies, ironies of fate, machismo, failure and suffering. With El Comandante and a fellow octogenarian émigré as protagonists, García launches into a fictional exploration of Cuban masculinity, machismo, the dictator’s fate, vanity, and failure. Written in what I will argue is a tragicomic mo

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Johnson, Nicholas L. "The Paradox of Chivalric Madness: Ariosto’s and Cervantes’s Madness Representations’ Impact on Disability Representation." Humanities 13, no. 3 (2024): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h13030087.

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This study investigates the connection between madness and critiques of the chivalric romance genre in two late Renaissance works, Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso and Miguel de Cervantes’s Don Quijote de la Mancha. The satire of chivalric romance in these works of fiction caution against nascent modes of thinking in imperial societies for the implementation of chivalric ideas to inspire and promote imperial conquests in Latin America through juxtaposition with the Muslim and Moorish conquest in the Maghreb and through metaphorical island governance. In order to make such critiques, these no

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Lushnikova, Galina I., and Tatiana Iu Osadchaia. "Language of the Future as an Object of Satire in D. Eggers’s Dystopic Dilogy." SibScript 26, no. 1 (2024): 130–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.21603/sibscript-2024-26-1-130-139.

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Personal worldview can be subjected to linguistic modeling even if the person in question is a fictional character. This research featured the vocabulary invented by the contemporary American writer Dave Eggers for his dystopic dilogy, as well as the role of this fictional language in creating satirical mode. The study involved such methods of cognitive linguistics as component, transformational, and stylistic analyses, analytical description, and semantic fields. The article opens with a review of domestic and foreign publications on the connection between language, social processes, and thin

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Comer, Krista. "Western Literature at Century's End: Sketches in Generation X, Los Angeles, and the Post-Civil Rights Novel." Pacific Historical Review 72, no. 3 (2003): 405–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/phr.2003.72.3.405.

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Since the early 1990s several "serious" southern California writers have begun writing science fiction, detective stories, mysteries, comic satires, even magical realism, finding freshly relevant ways to represent western life at century's end. Through novels by Sandra Tsing Loh and Cynthia Kadohata, I locate this turn to the popular within a larger political and cultural context we might call "post-Civil Rights." In such novels, texts do not take racial alterity as a starting, radically disruptive fact, although they do not claim that America has outgrown racism. Rather, a new racial subject

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Björk, Ulf Jonas. "Tricky Film: The Critical and Legal Reception of I Am Curious (Yellow) in America." American Studies in Scandinavia 44, no. 2 (2012): 113–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.22439/asca.v44i2.4919.

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This study examines the reception of the Swedish film I am Curious (Yellow) in America. As a mixture of political satire and a chronicle of a sexual affair, with fictional and documentary material, the film was referred to by a U.S. government official as “the most explicit movie ever imported” when it arrived in America in 1968 and was released only after a federal appeals court reversed a lower-court verdict that had found it legally obscene. Although cleared for importation, I am Curious (Yellow) continued to be dogged by whether its sex scenes violated local and state obscenity laws. While

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Demchenko, Tamara, and Svіtlana Ivanytska. "«UNFABLED»: SOVIET DAILY ROUTINE OF THE 1920S–1930S IN THE LITERARY WORKS OF ANATOL KALINOVSKY (GALAN)." Siverian chronicle (2022) 3 (October 12, 2022): 123–35. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7190231.

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<strong><em>     The purpose of this study</em></strong><em> is to analyze and interpret the historical, biographical and source studies of the legacy of the half-forgotten but talented journalist and writer Anatoly Kalinovsky (Galan) (1901</em><em>–</em><em>1987), whom Igor Kachurovsky ranked among the five or six most readable prose writers of Ukrainian emigration, noted the ease of presentation, perfection of plot constructions and predicted that «scattered, fragmented into dozens of pseudonyms, the author risks not gaining the fame he deserves as a writer…

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Neel, Alexandra. "“THE GHOST OF SLAVERY” INOUR MUTUAL FRIEND." Victorian Literature and Culture 43, no. 3 (2015): 511–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150315000054.

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On his last trip to Americain 1868, Charles Dickens would write a letter to his friend and biographer John Forster, which paints a sobering picture of postbellum Baltimore: “It is remarkable to see how the Ghost of Slavery haunts the town; and how the shambling, untidy, evasive, and postponing Irrepressible proceeds about his free work, going round and round it, instead of at it.” While Dickens's phrase “the Ghost of Slavery” indicts a slave system that persists despite abolition, his representation of the former slave body – “the shambling, untidy, evasive, and postponing Irrepressible” – sug

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Savaliya, Jaydipbhai K. "Joker in the Pack: A Campus Novel." RESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of Multidisciplinary 4, no. 1 (2019): 556–58. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2550491.

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This genre was firmly established and began to develop slowly and gradually in the fifties. During this time, a number of universities came into existence and this scenario provided appropriate scene or material for solving political and social problems of contemporary British society. This genre was popular in 1950s and1970s it reached a stage which can be called a typical novel sub-genre. Campus novel had a distinct quality of satiric humourwhich often extended to farce. Campus Novel is set in academic base and subject matter or a material of novels are based on academia. It is said that the

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"ORIGIN OF THE TERM "SATIRE" IN FICTION." Philology matters, March 25, 2021, 37–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.36078/987654477.

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The article provides an in-depth analysis of the history of the origin of the term satire types of satire, definitions of the term satire in encyclopedias and scientific dictionaries. Representatives of satire in Russian, English and Uzbek literature are also mentioned. The article also includes opinions of famous scholars on satire, as well as their translation into Uzbek. The genre of satire has evolved since ancient times and covered almost all types of fiction. The satirist writers exposed the social events of the period in which they lived with humor and satire. They put the final conclus

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Michel, Robert H. "Régis Messac at McGill University, 1924–1929: Fact and Fiction." Fontanus 13 (January 1, 2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.26443/fo.v13i.252.

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Régis Messac (1893–1945), French author of science fiction, satire and social criticism taught French at Montreal’s McGill University from 1924 to 1929. A provocative thinker whose works are now being republished, his years at McGill inspired harsh criticism of American society and a satirical novel Smith Conundrum about the trials of teaching at a thinly disguised McGill. His satire is college fiction in the tradition of his fellow professor Stephen Leacock but harsher. This article reconstructs Messac’s career at McGill, links his journalism during that time with his novel and traces how clo

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Stang, Sarah. "Irradiated Cereal and Abject Meat: Food as Satire and Warning in the Fallout Series." Games and Culture, July 6, 2021, 155541202110308. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/15554120211030800.

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This article is a close reading of food and beverages in Bethesda’s acclaimed post-apocalyptic science fiction video game series, Fallout. Through a discussion of the visual design, narrative positioning, and in-game function of food and beverage consumption, this article demonstrates how Fallout uses food to critique the unchecked technological development, rampant consumerism, and environmental devastation of post-war American atomic culture. Specifically, pre-packaged, pre-apocalypse food is presented as a focal point for satire, while the irradiated meat harvested from the mutated creature

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Pourgharib, Behzad, Hamta Mahdavinataj, Moussa Pourya Asl, and Henry Oinas-Kukkonen. "Narrative strategies of transrealism: the interplay of satire, fantasy, and science in American dystopian fiction." Journal for Cultural Research, May 6, 2024, 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2024.2349872.

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Woof, William. "In Praise of Tim Burton." Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media, April 10, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.15353/kinema.vi.878.

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IN PRAISE OF TIM BURTON: FINDING THE MASTERPIECE IN MARS ATTACKS "Science fiction is a literary province I used to visit fairly often; if I now visit it seldom, that is not because my taste has improved but because the province has changed, being now covered with new building estates, in a style I don't care for. But in the good old days I noticed that whenever critics said anything about it, they betrayed great ignorance.... A great many writers use it for satire; nearly all the most pungent criticism of the American way of life takes this form, and would at once be denounced as un-American i

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McClain, Kathryn J. "Resurrecting rebels left ‘dead on the page’: (auto)biography as adaptation and the lingering legacy of didactic American political fiction in Chris Bachelder’s U.S.!" Adaptation 18, no. 2 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apaf005.

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Abstract Chris Bachelder’s 2006 political satire U.S.! re-examines contemporary American political literature by adapting the author Upton Sinclair as a biographical text. The fictional Sinclair emerges as a deceased man alive via resurrection, a man who continuously fails at political advocacy. Yet, the novel also recognizes his status as a lingering past, a biography in need of adaptation to connect with the concerns of the present day. In this article, I explore the context of the undead Sinclair as a faded biographical narrative, one decaying and rejected primarily because Sinclair and the

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Feith, Michel. "The Dark Side of Branding: Language and the Real in Colson Whitehead’s Apex Hides the Hurt (2006)." Real in Fiction, no. 25 (April 25, 2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.35562/rma.389.

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The protagonist, an unnamed African American nomenclature consultant, has been a victim of his own trade: his stroke of genius, the name and advertising slogan for a band-aid that fits the many skin tones of multicultural America, “Apex Hides the Hurt”, has ironically cost him an infected toe that he merely covered with the adhesive bandage instead of having it treated. When he is asked to arbitrate the rebranding of the town of Winthrop, the ad man faces both an onomastic and an existential challenge.This paper draws on specific aspects of the philosophy of language to discuss the motivation

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Menegaldo, Gilles. "Teenagers in Crisis: Fascination, Transformation and the Quest for Identity in The Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999) and Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)." Publije, no. 1 (April 23, 2018). https://doi.org/10.63723/publije.20181047.

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This article focuses on two films that deal with adolescent crisis, associating a sociological approach and an aesthetic commitment. Richard Kelly and Sofia Coppola set their fiction in a recent past, apprehended through a number of cultural references, musical and filmic. Both directors offer a bitter satire of some aspects of American life, in particular the stifling influence of parental authority. In both films, the young protagonists are confronted with spatial and psychological entrapment and they have to create their own imaginary alternative world. Adolescence is seen as an in-between

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Rolls, Alistair. "The Re-imagining Inherent in Crime Fiction Translation." M/C Journal 18, no. 6 (2016). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1028.

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Introduction When a text is said to be re-appropriated, it is at times unclear to what extent this appropriation is secondary, repeated, new; certainly, the difference between a reiteration and an iteration has more to do with emphasis than any (re)duplication. And at a moment in the development of crime fiction in France when the retranslation of now apparently dated French translations of the works of classic American hardboiled novels (especially those of authors like Dashiell Hammett, whose novels were published in Marcel Duhamel’s Série Noire at Gallimard in the decades following the end

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Ducha Martínez, Leyre. "NUEVA ESPIRITUALIDAD: UN ANÁLISIS SOBRE LA LIMINALIDAD Y EL PERSONAJE DE LA COYOTA DEL RELATO “AVENTURA EN BETHANIA” DE RAMÓN J. SENDER." ConSecuencias 5, no. 1 (2024). https://doi.org/10.6017/cs.v5i1.18739.

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This study focuses on Ramón J. Sender’s exile-era short fiction, with particular attention to the aesthetic dimension of Aventura en Bethania, a story included in the anthology Novelas ejemplares de Cíbola (1961). This volume—born out of the Aragonese writer’s cultural integration into the American Southwest—has often been examined in relation to his earlier work Mexicayotl, published shortly after Sender arrived in Mexico following the Spanish Civil War. However, the present piece argues for the autonomy of the 1960s anthology, highlighting the interaction of European-origin characters with t

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Sample, Char, Michael J. Jensen, Keith Scott, et al. "Interdisciplinary Lessons Learned While Researching Fake News." Frontiers in Psychology 11 (December 16, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.537612.

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The misleading and propagandistic tendencies in American news reporting have been a part of public discussion from its earliest days as a republic (Innis, 2007; Sheppard, 2007). “Fake news” is hardly new (McKernon, 1925), and the term has been applied to a variety of distinct phenomenon ranging from satire to news, which one may find disagreeable (Jankowski, 2018; Tandoc et al., 2018). However, this problem has become increasingly acute in recent years with the Macquarie Dictionary declaring “fake news” the word of the year in 2016 (Lavoipierre, 2017). The international recognition of fake new

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Sample, Char, Michael J. Jensen, Keith Scott, et al. "Interdisciplinary Lessons Learned While Researching Fake News." Frontiers in Psychology 11 (December 16, 2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.537612.

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The misleading and propagandistic tendencies in American news reporting have been a part of public discussion from its earliest days as a republic (Innis, 2007; Sheppard, 2007). “Fake news” is hardly new (McKernon, 1925), and the term has been applied to a variety of distinct phenomenon ranging from satire to news, which one may find disagreeable (Jankowski, 2018; Tandoc et al., 2018). However, this problem has become increasingly acute in recent years with the Macquarie Dictionary declaring “fake news” the word of the year in 2016 (Lavoipierre, 2017). The international recognition of fake new

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Hellmann, Olli. "Animated satire and collective memory: reflecting on the American “history wars” with The Simpsons." HUMOR, September 13, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humor-2022-0131.

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Abstract Driven by the knowledge that how societies remember their past matters in the present, the field of collective memory studies has paid significant attention to the media’s role in contributing to the production of socially shared representations of history. The genre of satire, however, has so far remained largely neglected. My paper addresses this gap and argues that, compared to other forms of media, satire not only adds to the production of memories, but it also offers distinct rhetorical techniques to encourage audiences to reflect on the construction and maintenance of collective

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Brien, Donna Lee. "The Real Filth in American Psycho." M/C Journal 9, no. 5 (2006). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2657.

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   1991 An afternoon in late 1991 found me on a Sydney bus reading Brett Easton Ellis’ American Psycho (1991). A disembarking passenger paused at my side and, as I glanced up, hissed, ‘I don’t know how you can read that filth’. As she continued to make her way to the front of the vehicle, I was as stunned as if she had struck me physically. There was real vehemence in both her words and how they were delivered, and I can still see her eyes squeezing into slits as she hesitated while curling her mouth around that final angry word: ‘filth’. Now, almost fifteen years later, the

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Nolan, Huw, Jenny Wise, and Lesley McLean. "The Clothes Maketh the Cult." M/C Journal 26, no. 1 (2023). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2971.

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Introduction Many people interpret the word ‘cult’ through specific connotations, including, but not limited to, a community of like-minded people on the edge of civilization, often led by a charismatic leader, with beliefs that are ‘other’ to societal ‘norms’. Cults are often perceived as deviant, regularly incorporating elements of crime, especially physical and sexual violence. The adoption by some cults of a special uniform or dress code has been readily picked up by popular culture and has become a key ‘defining’ characteristic of the nature of a cult. In this article, we use the semiotic

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Miletic, Sasa. "‘Everyone Has Secrets’: Revealing the Whistleblower in Hollwood Film in the Examples of Snowden and The Fifth Estate." M/C Journal 23, no. 4 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1668.

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In one of the earliest films about a whistleblower, On the Waterfront (1954), the dock worker Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando), who also works for the union boss and mobster Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb), decides to testify in court against him and uncover corruption and murder. By doing so he will not only suffer retribution from Friendly but also be seen as a “stool pigeon” by his co-workers, friends, and neighbours who will shun him, and he will be “marked” forever by his deed. Nonetheless, he decides to do the right thing. Already it is clear that in most cases the whistleblowers are not simpl

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Felton, Emma. "The City." M/C Journal 5, no. 2 (2002). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1958.

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In the television series Sex and the City, there is a scene which illustrates a familiar contempt for suburban life as dull and boring. Implicit is the oppositional view that urban life by comparison, is the more exciting one. Charlotte (one of four women whose sexual and romantic relationships are the focus of the series), has spent time with her in-laws in an upper middle class suburban enclave, and is confessing to her three girl friends her fantasies and ultimate sexual encounter with her in-law's hunk of a gardener. She's racked with guilt over the incident, not least because she is marri

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DeCook, Julia Rose. "Trust Me, I’m Trolling: Irony and the Alt-Right’s Political Aesthetic." M/C Journal 23, no. 3 (2020). http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/mcj.1655.

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In August 2017, a white supremacist rally marketed as “Unite the Right” was held in Charlottesville, Virginia. In participation were members of the alt-right, including neo-nazis, white nationalists, neo-confederates, and other hate groups (Atkinson). The rally swiftly erupted in violence between white supremacists and counter protestors, culminating in the death of a counter-protester named Heather Heyer, who was struck by a car driven by white supremacist James Alex Fields, and leaving dozens injured. Terry McQuliffe, the Governor of Virginia, declared a state of emergency on August 12, and

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S.Nandhini and Dr.A.Kayalvizhi2. "Subjugation to Celebration in the select novels of Shoba De and Shashi Deshpande." November 10, 2022. https://doi.org/10.36993/RJOE.2022.7.4.02.

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Indian fiction in English has been enhanced by a few proficient women writers, including Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Nayanatara Sahyagal, Attain Hosain, Santharamarau, Shashi Deshpande, and Shobha De. They encompass a women's point of view on society. They have illustrated Indian women, their battle, their misery, and their awkward position, keeping in view their picture and job, which the general public has made. Their central devotion comprises investigating the ethical quality of women characters and their battle with difficulties in making their personalities. Since the start of ci

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