A Modest Proposal is a representative work of Jonathan Swift. Many critics think it a greatest satirical work ever written. Jonathan Swift has always been considered a political writer and poet. His plain style can also been seen in A Modest Proposal but it's not the main concern of this thesis. This thesis mainly focuses on some artistic features of the famous pamphlet. One characteristic of t...

While the criminalization and hyper‐sexualization of Venezuelanmigrants refugees across South America have received growing scholarly attention, fairly little is known about coping strategies migrants in this context. In article, we build on quantitative qualitative data from a survey (N = 100), 72 in‐depth interviews, five focus groups with Venezuelan immigrants Peruvian cities, collected betw...

The phenomenon of “fat shaming” (in particular with its aspect the especially harsh criticism corpulence in young adult women) seems nearly non-existent ancient Classical literature. extant satirical depictions fatness are uncommon and aimed, almost exclusively, at overweight men. author paper analyses this description, background moral philosophy, as well comments on plumpness gluttony context...

Aldous Huxley composed Brave New World in the context of the Depression and the eugenics movement in Britain. Today his novel is best known as satirical and predictive, but an additional interpretation emerges from Huxley's nonfiction writings in which the liberal hurmanist expressed some surprising opinions about eugenics, citizenship, and meritocracy. He felt that his role as an artist and pu...

Satirical news shows constitute an innovative hybrid genre that mixes regular and fiction. The discursive integration hypothesis posits the defining characteristic of satirical is fiction elements are integrated such boundaries between preexisting genres have blurred. current study quantitatively tests this on both long-running American as Daily Show more recent Last Week Tonight. We collected ...

Satirical news blends entertainment with information and opinion. Satire can thus impact various audience responses, such as positive negative affect, learning, persuasion. However, the presence size of these communicative effects have been debated. We conducted a three-level random-effects meta-analysis on satirical ( k = 70, N total 22,969). compared to two reference categories: (1) control m...