In two recent posts, I touched on both nonverbal and verbal types of formal humor. In this one, I continue our review of the latter category by discussing two styles of humor seen quite regularly in ...
IT would be entirely wrong, in this soft spoken age, to advocate a thing so disquieting as the revival of satire, were the writer inspired by any but the loftiest motives. Sure of my position, however ...
Students study satire, a literary mode that blends social criticism with humor and wit to the end that human institutions or humanity may be improved. The range of readings is from Aristophanes’ ...