The Irony of Satire

The Irony of Satire Political Ideology and the Motivation to See What You Want to See in The Colbert Report

This study investigated biased message processing of political satire in The Colbert Report and the influence of political ideology on perceptions of Stephen Colbert. Results indicate that political ideology influences biased processing of ambiguous political messages and source in late-night comedy. Using data from an experiment (N = 332), we found that individual-level political ideology sign...

Subversive Satire: the Glasgow Verses

The Glasgow Verses constitutes a formal anomaly in terms of genesis, appearance and meaning. Discovered only in 1995, the verses are part of a larger text, the so-called Hunter Codex, a manuscript MaruliÊ wrote and dedicated to his friend Dmine PapaliÊ. Closer investigation revealed that this collection of poems had been entirely overlooked by traditional scholarship, and that it was neither ch...

A satire on the influenza of 1803.

ONE OF the coloured engraved satires in the Wellcome collection is An Address of thanks from the Faculty to the Right Hon.ble Mr. Influenzy for his kind visit to this country (Fig. 1). It was designed by Temple West, an amateur artist whose name appears on the cross-bar of the commode on which the figure of Influenzy is seated. The print was published by S. W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly on 20 April 1...

Notes on the Variety and Uses of Satire, Sarcasm and Irony in Social Research, with Some Observations on Vices and Follies in the Academy

In this article the author examines the uses of satire and its rhetorical devices, sarcasm and irony, in social research, analysing published research papers as well as drawing on her own autoethnographic data. In particular, she focuses on texts concerning discourses within the academy and the current predicament of the academic, each of which sets out to expose an aspect of the workings of po...

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