ENGB37H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Satirist, Fiction, Plautus
16 May 2017
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To look at the origins of satire and satirical writing and show how subsequent authors refashion and reshape these texts. To examine the different rhetorical strategies that satire employs to communicate its ideas. To appreciate the complexities, subtleties and challenges of literary satire as a writing form. Philosophical and rhetoric (objective #2: rhetorical strategies, philosophical. Inquire: to ask or to see, most satire is not constructed with settled conclusion. Dialogue, debate and disruption forms: rather satire are frequently more open ended. Epistemology of discovering what is true: realistic fiction is said to be the child of satire, co(cid:374)fli(cid:272)t of (cid:449)hat (cid:449)e (cid:271)elie(cid:448)e a(cid:374)d ho(cid:449) it"s (cid:396)ep(cid:396)ese(cid:374)ted, provoke (provocation) Before the 19th century, also to challenge received opinion, or orthodoxy. Scandinavian film production of people fighting, making fun of each other face to face) in satire suggests a more sinister and aggressive kind of play ludic combat.
