This paper attempts to examine the allegorical narrative strategies and politics of identity—race, gender, using postcolonial racial frameworks. The novel, Blackass written by a Nigerian writer is 21st century fierce comic satirical adaptation Metamorphosis, novella Franz Kafka. intricacies culture within society ethnicity in nation such as patriarchy are explored through language, characters, ...

"At the time of its serial publication, The Massacre Amazons was a great success because it reflected concern society Belle Epoque in face growing importance women’s literature. Its author, Han Ryner, did not cease to denounce ridicule these women who denaturalized themselves by appropriating masculine privilege that is fictional writing. He indeed ruthless for novelists. But while expressing h...

Both opinion mining and multimedia retrieval are active research areas with challenging applications, but as far as we know the present vision paper is the first attempt to integrate them into multimedia opinion mining. Here we address the specific case of satirical comments in politics by exploiting the presence of photomontage to infer a tendentially negative opinion. In order to do so, we in...

Abstract A discussion of satire as borderline case invectivity will be presented in this paper. The particular focus lies on literary debates eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. British satirists like Dryden, Haywood or Pope described ridicule sarcasm main features satire, however, it was viewed necessary to uphold the distinction between libel resp. lampoon. This explained by concepts urba...

The article analyzes the literary and critical works of Ivan Yerofeiv, dedicated to activities Vasyl Maslovich, a Kharkiv writer, journalist, founder Demokrit journal. manuscripts studied by Erofeiv contain valuable information that determines role place V. Maslovych in process formation educational center, Ukrainian literature journalism. researcher's attention is focused on nature journal's p...

The paper analyses Vesna Parun’s humorous literature - satirical poetry and short forms such as aphorisms epigrams from the perspective of recent theoretical elaborations humour comic. interpretation is based on presumption that author’s poetic a kind political event can put pressure power systems in various areas human life. It encourages readers to question supposedly unquestionable worldview...

This study tested the effectiveness of fact-check format (regular vs. satirical) to refute different types false information. Specifically, we conducted a pre-registered online survey experiment (N = 849) that compared effects regular fact-checkers and satirist refutations in response mis- disinformation about crime rates. The findings illustrated both fact-checking formats – factual satirical ...