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Breaking Bad as Philosophy: The Moral Aesthetics of the Anti-hero’s Journey
Breaking Bad has been lauded as the best series ever on television by numerous critics and polls. It follows the “Breaking Bad” (i.e., the moral...
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Satirical News Detection with Semantic Feature Extraction and Game-Theoretic Rough Sets
Satirical news detection is an important yet challenging task to prevent spread of misinformation. Many feature based and end-to-end neural nets...
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Politically Related Senryû Verses in Daily Newspapers as a Manifestation of Humor in Japan
It is often suggested that the Japanese do not have a sense of humorSatiricalhumor. Seriousness is regarded as one of the most important elements of...
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Between Conformity and Transgression: Approaches to Writing in the Albums of Emilia Pardo Bazán
This chapter analyzes two albums belonging to Emilia Pardo Bazán and proposes that her involvement in this nineteenth-century trend transgressed...
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Spanish Humor and Political Culture Through Cartoons: Multimodal Discursive Analysis of Forges’s Socio-political, Graphic Universe
Humor and political culture have always gone hand in hand in contemporary SpainSpain to the extent that the satirical press has not only been a...
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Two perceptions of childhood: Alexander Baron (1917-1999) and Howard Jacobson (1942-)
Alexander Baron’s From the City from the Plough (1948) received high praise as the best fictional record of ordinary British soldiers’ experiences...
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Vivisections, Vaccinations, Revelations: Ecofeminist Satire and Biopolitical Dystopia in Frances Power Cobbe’s The Age of Science
This chapter undertakes an animal studies, ecofeminist, and biopolitical reading of Frances Power Cobbe’s science-fiction satire The Age of Science:...
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A Revolutionary Wonderland: Layered Didacticism in Chen Bochui’s Miss Alice (1931–1932)
Among Chinese adaptations of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland , Chen Bochui’s Miss Alice (1931–1932) is the most complete and widely...
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Writing as Antidote: Muslim Writers Resist in Don’t Panic, I’m Islamic and Banthology
In January 2017, the Trump administration issued executive order 13769, banning seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US Two literary...
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“O what a scene is here”: Visual References in Blake’s An Island in the Moon
Blake’s An Island in the Moon has become well known for the poet’s satirical portrayals of some of his friends and acquaintances—including himself,...
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The “Battle of the Frogs and Mice” (Batrachomyomachia) and Satire in the Ancient Greco-Roman Tradition
This chapter briefly surveys the connections between animal narrative and “satire” in Ancient Greek and Latin literature—taking in the ainoi of...
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“The Alchemy of Re-Imagined Reality”: Biographical Gothicism in Carol Shields’s Swann: A Mystery
In “‘The Alchemy of Re-Imagined Reality’: Biographical Gothicism in Carol Shields’s Swann: A Mystery” Cynthia Sugars argues that Shields’s 1987 novel...
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D’Anvers, Alicia
Alicia D’Anvers (née Clarke) (1667/8–1725) was a satirical writer who published two poems under her own name in 1691, with a possible third two years...
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Drama by Elizabeth Polwhele
Elizabeth Polwhele (f l. post-1660; exact dates unknown) wrote at least two early Restoration plays, a masque, and a satirical poem. All but the...
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“Wolf within the Fold”: Satire and Animality in The Brutalitarian and The Beagler Boy
This chapter investigates two satirical publications created by The Humanitarian League, a pro-animal campaign group active at the fin de siècle: The...
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Satire and Significant Otherness in Virginia Woolf’s Flush: A Biography
Virginia Woolf’s bestseller Flush: A Biography (1933)—the life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s spaniel—has only recently received proper critical...
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The Satirical Press of Colonial Australia: A Migrant and Minority Enterprise
This chapter re-assesses the colonial Australian versions of the London Punch, making a case for their importance as essentially migrant and minority...
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How Do We Laugh about This? Literary Satire in Trump Times
In his 1995 text Fables of Subversion, Steven Weisenburger draws a useful distinction between two types of satirical modes: on the one hand,...
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Unsettling Irish America: Self-Authorship and the Writing of Mary McCarthy
This chapter examines Mary McCarthy’s relationship with self-fashioning and its importance to understanding her writing history and the complicated...