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• Fascinated with the meeting of memory and language, adept at conjuring states of mind, and haunted by the violence wracking his homeland, Hemon is a stoic tragedian and a brilliant satirist. The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon: Book summary
• The Roman satirists savagely expose the fawning homage heaped upon the childless rich.
• ‘The satirist is both revealer and concealer,’ he added.
• Corthell concludes that Donne constructs a ‘recusant subject of satire,’ a subject, that is, whose equivocalness is both a response to and a production of the discontinuous discursive formations available to the Elizabethan satirist.
• Both contemporary satirists have really borrowed the idea from the high avatar of absurdism Samuel Beckett.
• Despairing, however, that he would only be remembered as a political satirist and not a genuine artist in his own right, he changed his subject matter to romantic landscapes or apocalyptic visions of the future.
• (Library of Congress - ROWLANDSON / Archives) Reveling in exaggerated actions, the British satirist mocks a musician playing affettuoso ("with feeling") with "Discord" (ca. The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post
• Swift wrote a great deal of poetry, but he is best regarded as a prose satirist.
• The "peculiar domestic institution," the fillibustering tendencies of the nation, the charlatanism which is the price of political power, are butts for the shafts of the satirist, which European poets may well envy Mr. Lowell. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• The cliffhanger nature of serial fiction, exploited by everything from 1940's B-features to modern soap opera, is an easy target for the satirist.