Contemporary British satire and the problem of Jonathan Swift’s personae

This essay brings the example of Jonathan Swift’s literary personae to bear on current trends in satirical culture. A number of recent commentators have written of a crisis in contemporary British satire. They invoke Horkheimer and Adorno’s theory that comedy supports power interests which it purpo...

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Main Author: John Stubbs
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani) 2020-06-01
Series:Ars & Humanitas
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Online Access:https://journals.uni-lj.si/arshumanitas/article/view/9358