The Literature of Satire is an accessible but sophisticated and wide-ranging study of satire from the classics to the present in plays, novels and the press as well as in verse. In it Charles Knight ...

Funnyman Gross can write entertainingly, uproariously, like several kinds of fool, several kinds of knave, but in this book he has not written a word. He Done Her Wrong is a “novel” in ...

Satire, Veneration, and St. Joseph in Art, c. 1300–1550 is the first book to reclaim satire as a central component of Catholic altarpieces, devotional art, and veneration, moving beyond humor's ...

The Book of Clarence satirises the biblical epic ... It’s at odds with the atheist satire it at first purports to be. Samuel’s vision is bold, the comic asides mostly land (though I could ...

Uncle's intrusive career advice for a child sparks humorous debate on future aspirations in this satirical piece.

The Wake County school board will decide whether a book is too “demonic” to remain in an elementary school library or is just a piece of satire that’s acceptable for students to read.