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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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notable for its
deliberately bizarre policies and it
effectively exists to
satirise British politics, and by
fielding novelty candidates to
offer itself as...
- Newport, Wales. The
group produces humorous, and
often explicit songs that
satirise hip hop, today's
consumer society, the "chav"
culture and life in Newport...
- 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...
- Rajasthan, and
employs nonlinear narrative and an
absurdist story line to
satirise mythology, arts,
politics and philosophy. The film won the
Filmfare Critics...
- 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...
- 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...
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political movement. It was
considered an in-joke
among leftists used to
satirise those who were too
rigid in
their adherence to
political orthodoxy. The...
- Arbuthnot, who
together formed the
satirical Scriblerus Club. Its aim was to
satirise ignorance and
pedantry through the
fictional scholar Martinus Scriblerus...
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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...
