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AP/EN 1202

Satire

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Topics

  • Horatian, Juvenalian and Menippean satire
  • Ridicule and defamiliarization
  • Satirical techniques and audience response
  • Satire across fiction, cartoons, film and digital media

Readings

  • Tentative: Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels.
  • Tentative: Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey.
  • Tentative: Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
  • Tentative: George Orwell, Animal Farm.
  • Tentative: Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One.
  • Tentative: Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives.
  • Tentative: Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games.
  • Tentative: Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Friday Black.
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