“I HEARTILY HATE AND DETEST THAT ANIMAL CALLED MAN”: A CYCLOPAEDIC STUDY OF SATIRE FROM PRIMEVAL TO CONTEMPORARY FICTION

Hashim Khan Head of English & General Subjects Department, Saudi Japanese Automobile High Institute, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, khansnexus@gmail.com
Muhammad Umer Department of English, Islamia College University Peshawar, mumer@icp.edu.pk
Khalid Azim Khan Assistant Professor, Consultant Academic Accreditation, Deanship of University Development and Quality Assurance, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Email: kakhan@uqu.edu.sa

Abstract

Researchers, readers and students of literature come across and have to deal with literary devices. Satire, being both an important literary device and a genre connects human nature with fun, criticism, caricature, disparagement and sometimes abomination. The aim of this article is to explore the origin and the literary journey of satire from primitive to modern times. It encompasses different aspects, forms and need based practice of satire in different eras. This article traces the nature of the term satire with reference to semantic definitions, historical explanations and traditional and modern roles defined and explained in the world’s top ranking dictionaries and encyclopaedias. This study leads the reader’s comprehension to satire’s changed and transformed nature and its role in the contemporary literary tradition and in various forms of literature, media and social media. It aims to provide a succinct and summarised outline of the nature and purpose of satire through different eras for literature students and readers by dwelling on a few distinguished satirists of different epochs.

 

 

 

Keywords:

Satire, literary device, genre, primeval, contemporary

 

 

 


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