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Satire is a
genre of the visual, literary, and
performing arts,
usually in the form of
fiction and less
frequently non-fiction, in
which vices, follies...
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about **** anti-Semitism and the
Holocaust did not
discourage him from
satirising 'a
little pawnbroker in
Hounsditch [sic]
called Meatbein who, when the...
- south-east Wales. The
group produces humorous, and
often explicit songs that
satirise hip hop, today's
consumer society, the "chav"
culture and life in Newport...
- home from a 20-year absence,
ready to
begin his life anew. The
novel satirises some
shortcomings of
British society and
government at the time, including...
- characters, e.g. The
Importance of
Being Earnest (1895), by
Oscar Wilde,
which satirises the ****ual
hypocrisies of
Victorian morality. The comedy-of-manners genre...
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notable for its
deliberately bizarre policies and it
effectively exists to
satirise British politics, and by
fielding novelty candidates to
offer itself as...
- spin-off from Iannucci's
television series The
Thick of It (2005–12), and
satirises British-American politics, in
particular the
invasion of Iraq. At the...
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professor at the
University of
Birmingham until 1987, and some of his
novels satirise academic life,
notably the "Campus Trilogy" –
Changing Places: A Tale of...
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prose satire by the Anglo-Irish
writer and
clergyman Jonathan Swift,
satirising both
human nature and the "travellers' tales"
literary subgenre. It is...
- themes. One
reviewer praised "her
audacious talent and her
ability to
satirise the
modern world."
While reviewers generally liked the work, they found...
