Download or read book Satire Or Sedition written by Jonathan Biggins and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The introduction in late 2005 of the re-invigorated sedition laws provoked an angry response from a wide coalition of civil libertarians, authors, publishers, artists and performers, who saw them as an invasion of creators right to social criticism. This title examines the state of theatrical satire in the light of these events.
Download or read book Sedition written by and published by . This book was released on 1770 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Seismic Sedition written by D T E Madden and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seismic Sedition is a satire forged from the fires of 2020: Bungling bureaucracies, anti-rationalism, puritanism, paranoia, and anxiety. Meet Professor Terry Joyner, a seismologist who The Right Side of History(TM) will judge as one of its greatest monsters. Barely hanging onto his job, he's tracking something amiss beneath the earth's surface when a sudden explosion destroys the old steel district in Chicago, ripping through the South Side. Hundreds are dead or missing.Obsessively self-conscious and analytical, Joyner may have cracked the case of the explosion with one of his booze-fueled theories. But his investigation goes off the rails when he gets drawn into attending a "Blue Ribbon Panel" of academic experts that have gathered to solve the mystery behind the explosion - or so he thinks. A dubious choice of words in front of his fellow academics brings Joyner to the attention of a mysterious government agency set upon eliminating all "bias incidents" from academic settings, and they're bent upon silencing him for his speech crimes against humanity. Will Joyner see the light and admit his bias and wrongdoing? Or will he choose the path of defiance and sedition? In Seismic Sedition, you'll laugh along with Joyner as well as at him. And you might be laughing at yourself, too - especially if you've ever felt like you've been the only sane person in the room.
Download or read book Sedition written by Tom Abrahams and published by Tom Abrahams. This book was released on 2012-09-23 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Political Satire Postmodern Reality and the Trump Presidency written by Mehnaaz Momen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an in-depth analysis of the phenomenon of the takeover of politics by entertainment. The author looks for answers in the parallel evolution of satire, the media, and politics, and how each has influenced the other and the implications of this interconnectedness for political discourse.
Download or read book The Last Democrats written by Joseph P. Dailey and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2014 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1958, Chief Justice Earl Warren claimed the Supreme Court had the exclusive power to interpret the Constitution and said its authority had been respected by the nation for 200 year. Even for Warren, it was a remarkable misstatement. Just how remarkable is the subject of The Last Democrats, the story of how four presidents, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, and Lincoln - defeated claims of judicial supremacy, and how a fifth president, Franklin Roosevelt, lost everything they had gained. Drawing on letters, diaries, debates, and speeches, and filled with anecdotes that add color and drama, such as Lincoln's decision to issue an arrest warrent for Chief Justice Taney, the book recounts a largely forgotten history. The story begins in 1787 when a group of delegates to the Federal Convention gathered at Benjamin Franklin's home in Philadelphia to enjoy a csak of London stout and ale. In four months, this assembly of demi-gods, as Jefferson called them, created the first modern government run by the poeple. Popular sovereignty did not extend to the Court, but this book describes how the Framers made sure its power were limited. The story proceeds to the struggle between Jefferson and Chief Justice Marshall, including the decision in Marbury v. Madison that future courts used as a springboard in their rise to power. Jefferson said the Court twisted the Constitution like a piece of wax, and this book tells how he used impeachment proceedings to curb its power. The story continues with Jackson's refusal to enforce two Marshall rulings, followed by Taney's inflammatory ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford that called blacks "an inferior class of beings." Lincoln openly defied Taney, but the practice of overriding election officials returned 30 years later as conservative judges blocked liberal efforts to institute social and economic reofrms. Progressives such as Teddy Roosevelt and Robert LaFollette attacked the rulings and paid dearly: Roosevelt was charged with "legalized terrorism" for opposing the courts, while LaFollette was called a Bolshevik, accused of flying the red flag. The Franklin Roosevelt chapter describes his court-packing plan and explains how one of his supporters, "Bolshevik Burt" Wheeler, led a mutiny against the plan in the Senate, where FDR was compared to Stalin, Mussolini, and Hitler. The Court claimed victory in the battle for supremacy in 1958, as presidents from Eisenhower to Bush stood by while the courts rewrote the Constitution on everything from school prayer to abortion, racial quotas, gay marriage, and the War on Terror. The book concludes with a discussion of the ideas that have been suggested to return the Court to the limited role envisioned by the Framers. -- from dust jacket.
Download or read book Neoclassical Satire and the Romantic School 1780 1830 written by Rolf P. Lessenich and published by V&R unipress GmbH. This book was released on 2012 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romanticism was not only heterogeneous and disunited. It also had to face the hostile counter-movement of the Enlightenment and Augustan Neoclassicism, still going strong at the time of and in the decades following the French Revolution due to support from the ruling Establishment (the ancien regime of the Crown and Church of England). Neoclassicists regarded Romanticism as a heteretical amalgam of dissenting new schools, which threatened the monopoly of the Classical Tradition. The acrimonious debates in aesthetics and politics were conducted with the traditional strategies of the classical ars disputandi on both sides. Under the duress of the heaviest satirical attacks, Romanticism began gradually to see itself as one movement, giving rise to the problematic opposition of Classical and Romantic. The construction of this rough divide, however, was indispensable for the clarification of different positions in the hubbub of conflicting voices, and has also proved critical in literary and cultural studies which cannot do without such subsumptions. The Classical Tradition, encompassing Christianity, emerges as an ongoing event from Greek and Latin antiquity running through to our time.
Download or read book The Efflorescence of Caricature 1759 1838 written by Todd Porterfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Searing disputes over caricature have recently sparked flames across the world¿the culmination, not the beginning, of the story of one of modernity's definitive artistic practices. Modern visual satire erupts during a period marked by reform and revolution, by cohering nationalisms and expanding empires, and by the emerging discipline of art history. This has long been recognized as its Golden Age. It is time to look anew. In The Efflorescence of Caricature, 1759-1838, an international, interdisciplinary, and intergenerational team of scholars reconfigures the geography of modern visual satire, as the expansive narrative reaches from North America to Europe, to China and the Ottoman Empire. Caricature's specific visual cultures are also laid bare, its iconographic means and material support, as well as the diverse milieu of its making¿the military, the art academy, diplomacy, politics, art criticism, and popular entertainment. Some of its greatest practitioners¿James Gillray and Honor¿aumier¿are seen in a new light, alongside some of their far flung and opportunistic pastichers. Most trenchantly, assumptions about the consequences of caricature's rise come under intense scrutiny, interrogated for its cherished and long-vaunted civilizational claims on individual character, artistic supremacy, political liberty, and global domination.
Download or read book Dryden as a Satirist written by K. Kuchenbächer and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sex and Satiric Tragedy in Early Modern England written by Gabriel A. Rieger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon recent scholarship in Renaissance studies regarding notions of the body, political, physical and social, this study examines how the satiric tragedians of the English Renaissance employ the languages of sex - including sexual slander, titillation, insinuation and obscenity - in the service of satiric aggression. There is a close association between the genre of satire and sexually descriptive language in the period, author Gabriel Rieger argues, particularly in the ways in which both the genre and the languages embody systems of oppositions. In exploring the various purposes which sexually descriptive language serves for the satiric tragedian, Rieger reviews a broad range of texts, ancient, Renaissance, and contemporary, by satiric tragedians, moralists, medical writers and critics, paying particular attention to the works of William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton and John Webster
Download or read book The Practice of Satire in England 1658 1770 written by Ashley Marshall and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exhaustive study of satire in the long eighteenth century. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice In The Practice of Satire in England, 1658–1770, Ashley Marshall explores how satire was conceived and understood by writers and readers of the period. Her account is based on a reading of some 3,000 works, ranging from one-page squibs to novels. The objective is not to recuperate particular minor works but to recover the satiric milieu—to resituate the masterpieces amid the hundreds of other works alongside which they were originally written and read. The long eighteenth century is generally hailed as the great age of satire, and as such, it has received much critical attention. However, scholars have focused almost exclusively on a small number of canonical works, such as Gulliver's Travels and The Dunciad, and have not looked for continuity over time. Marshall revises the standard account of eighteenth-century satire, revealing it to be messy, confused, and discontinuous, exhibiting radical and rapid changes over time. The true history of satire in its great age is not a history at all. Rather, it is a collection of episodic little histories.
Download or read book The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History written by Allen Boyer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the development and application of the law of treason in England across more than a thousand years, placing this legal history within a broader historical context. Describing many high-profile prosecutions and trials, the book focuses on the statutes, ordinances and customs that have at various times governed, limited and shaped this worst of crimes. It explores the reasons why treason coalesced around specific offences agreed by both the monarch and the wider political nation, why it became an essential instrument of enforcement in high politics, and why, over the past three hundred years, it has gradually fallen into disuse while remaining on the statute book. This book also considers why treason as both a word and a concept remains so potent in wider modern culture, investigating prevalent current misconceptions about what is and what is not treason. It concludes by suggesting that the abolition or 'death' of treason in the near future, while a logical next step, is by no means a foregone conclusion. The Rise and Fall of Treason in English History is a thorough academic introduction for scholars and history students, as well as general readers with an interest in British political and legal history.
Download or read book A Manual of English Literature written by Henry Morley and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Political Humor 2 volumes written by Jody C. Baumgartner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume set surveys the profound impact of political humor and satire on American culture and politics over the years, paying special attention to the explosion of political humor in today's wide-ranging and turbulent media environment. Historically, there has been a tendency to regard political satire and humor as a sideshow to the wider world of American politics—entertaining and sometimes insightful, but ultimately only of modest interest to students and others surveying the trajectory of American politics and culture. This set documents just how mistaken that assumption is. By examining political humor and satire throughout US history, these volumes not only illustrate how expressions of political satire and humor reflect changes in American attitudes about presidents, parties, and issues but also how satirists, comedians, cartoonists, and filmmakers have helped to shape popular attitudes about landmark historical events, major American institutions and movements, and the nation's political leaders and cultural giants. Finally, this work examines how today's brand of political humor may be more influential than ever before in shaping American attitudes about the nation in which we live.
Download or read book Satire in the Early English Drama written by Eva Marie Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographia Britannica Or the Lives of the Most Eminent Persons written by Kippis and published by . This book was released on 1793 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
