Word: satiricism
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"The strip was a statement by a character, not by me," he said. "It was meant to be a satiric representation of the euphoria of the anti-establishment types about the Watergate case. I wasn't using a character to make a statement--I was making a statement about a...
The two biggest literary splashes of the month are likely to follow the launching of two long-awaited novels by Kurt Vonnegut and Philip Roth. Both are to be published in mid-May. In other ways, too, they seem to be matched and curiously revealing pieces of American fiction (see...
Despite its author's classification, the play is lightly and rather shallowly satiric. It is also, like all Shaw, enormously difficult to act. And without vigorous guidance from director Catherine Clinton concerning the meaning of the play, the actors in the Loeb Ex production are not quite equal to the...
In 1960, with a decade of hard work and good living still left to him, John O'Hara published Sermons and Soda-Water, a collection of three novellas written in the voice of James Malloy, the writer's most obvious fictional alter ego. Like O'Hara, Malloy...
Author De Lillo would probably not be disappointed if Bucky Wunderlick is read as Jesus Christ Superstar in the urban wilderness. Bucky is last seen recovering from a language-erasing drug. It is suggested that he has been purified. But by nudging his hero toward the truly mythic, De Lillo...