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• Satire
  ...[[Jonathan Swift]] and in other art forms such as editorial cartooning. A satire is never just a reasoned argument or mere invective. It uses mockery or so == Literary satire ==
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• Satire/Definition
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• Satire/Bibliography
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• Satire/Related Articles
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• Satire/Notable satires
  [[Edmund Spenser]] ''Mother Hubberds Tale'' (1591). An allegorical satire on church governance and the court, following the failure of Spenser's hope
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• Satire
  ...[[Jonathan Swift]] and in other art forms such as editorial cartooning. A satire is never just a reasoned argument or mere invective. It uses mockery or so == Literary satire ==
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• Northanger Abbey/Definition
  (1818) A satire on the [[Gothic novel]].
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• Dilbert/Definition
  Comic strip by [[Scott Adams]] which makes satire of corporate America.
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• Titus Maccius Plautus
  ...[Old Comedy]], the authors of the Greek [[New Comedy]] presented a gentler satire based on every-day life. The [[musical comedy]], ''A Funny Thing Happened o
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• Utopia/Definition
  ...of a fictional society created by [[Thomas More|Sir Thomas More]] as a [[satire]] on his own, European, society; by extension, it has come to represent al
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• Frank Zappa
  ..., his skeptical views were embodied in his work through his caustic social satire.
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• Satire/Bibliography
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• Jonathan Swift
  '''Jonathan Swift''' was an Irish [[satire|satirical]] author, famous for his novel ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]''. A memb
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• Comedy
  ...first great comedy dramatist was [[Aristophanes]] who is remembered for [[satire]]. Comedy is, broadly speaking, any drama in which humour is a predominant
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• Daniel Defoe
  His writings include [[Satire|satirical]] poems and pamphlets (''[[The Shortest Way with Dissenters]]''),
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• Uncyclopedia
  ...on what is and is not funny. Its articles contain humor from sophisticated satire to random humor. It was originally independent, but is now owned by [[Wikia ...redeeming and most searingly sarcastic and humorous way possible, through satire". The information on the site is parodied, changed and fabricated to be hum
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• Emperor of America
  ...merica''''' is a novel by [[Richard Condon]] published in 1990. It is a [[satire]] about an "[[Imperial Presidency]]", poking fun at [[Ronald Reagan]].
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• Tom Lehrer
  ...h [[Henry Kissinger]] wins the [[Nobel Peace Prize]], there is no room for satire."
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• Horace
  ...irst poems he brought out were his Epodes (ironic lyrics in iambics) and [[Satire]]s. [[Virgil]] introduced him to [[Maecenas]] who became his friend and pa
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• Aristophanes
  ...nian comic [[drama]]tist. Eleven of his plays have survived. A master of [[satire]], his works include ''[[The Birds (play)|The Birds]]'' (414 BC) in which h
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• Jon Stewart
  ...edian. He is most famously known as the host of ''The Daily Show'', a news satire show on [[Comedy Central]]. Stewart began his career in stand-up comedy, bu
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• Robert Burns/Related Articles
  {{r|Satire}}
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• Stephen Colbert
  ...Illinois]]. After starring on the sketch comedy show ''Exit 57'' and the satire ''Strangers With Candy'', Stephen became a correspondent for ''[[The Daily ...at. By portraying this character, the real Stephen Colbert is able to use satire to address current events, and the nature of news media as a whole. The Col
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• Utopia/Related Articles
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• C.S. Forester
  ...excellent books turned into memorable movies. ''The General'' was a bitter satire on the incompetence of the military leadership in the [[First World War]].
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• Tom Lehrer/Related Articles
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• The Vertical Smile
  '''''The Vertical Smile''''' is a political satire novel by [[Richard Condon]], published in 1971. It deals with politics, se
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• Geoffrey Chaucer/Works
  .../teams/plwtlint.htm ''The Complaint of the Ploughman''] -- A [[Lollard]] [[satire]] later appropriated as a [[Protestant]] text *''[[Pierce the Ploughman's Crede]]'' -- A Lollard satire later appropriated by Protestants
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• Da Ali G Show
  ...and guests as a variety of characters. The main character is [[Ali G]], a satire on the British [[urban]]/"[[chav]]" culture, using [[rap and hip hop]], [[r
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• Springtime for Hitler
  Unfortunately for the conspirators, the audience later mistakes the play for satire, it becomes a huge success, and they go to gaol for fraud.
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• Voltaire
  ...s literary output was extensive, ranging from poems and plays, to works of satire such as [[Candide]], to works of [[history]] and [[philosophy]], including
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• Utopia
  ...of a fictional society created by [[Thomas More|Sir Thomas More]] as a [[satire]] on his own, European, society; by extension, it has come to represent al
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• British situation comedy
  ...pisodic, as opposed to the whole tone of the series dealing with pathos. [[Satire]] features higher in Britcom than in American sitcom, as does exploring the
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• Marcel Aymé
  ...ter the success of his novel, The Green Mare (''La jument verte''), a dark satire about sexuality published in 1933, he dedicated himself entirely to lit
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• Dmitri Shostakovich/Bibliography
  Sheinberg, Esti. ''Irony, Satire, Parody and the Grotesque in the Music of Shostakovich'' (Aldershot: Ashgat
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• Voltaire's Socrates (play)
  ...his death during his [[Socrates#Trial and death|trial]]. It is heavy with satire specifically at government authority and organized religion. The main char
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• Thomas Carlyle
  '''Thomas Carlyle''' (1795–1881) was a Scottish [[Essay|essayist]], [[Satire|satirist]], and historian, known for his belief in "great men" as agents fo
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• Lucian
  ...atin, Lucianus; c. AD [[120]] - after [[180]]) was a [[rhetoric]]ian and [[satire|satirist]], writing in the [[Greek language]], noted for his witty and scof Lucian also wrote a satire called ''The Passing of Peregrinus'', in which the lead character, Peregrin
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• James Bond/Filmography
  *''Casino Royale'' (1967; Columbia Pictures), a James-Bond satire with [[David Niven]] as Sir James Bond 007
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• The Riot Club
  ...s clearly an incendiary affair (some toffs reportedly couldn’t stomach the satire and walked out), Lone Scherfig’s film seems uncertain how far to push the
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• Situation comedy
  ...ts which are unique and ''Britcom'' can stand alone as a comedic genre. [[Satire]] features higher in Britcom than in American sitcom, as does exploring the
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• Rik Mayall
  ..., frustrated loser Richie Richard. Mayall also appeared in the [[political satire]] ''[[The News Statesman]]'' as politician Alan B'stard and in the ''[[Blac
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• Ben Jonson
  ...nd went on to write [[tragedy|tragedies]], most of which do not survive, [[satire|satirical]] [[comedy|comedies]], [[masque]]s for the court of James VI and
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• Henry Vaughan
  ...al and undistinguished poems together with a free translation of the tenth satire of [[Juvenal]]. Further secular poems and translations written after that ...is an extraordinary combination of visualisation, religious sentiment and satire. ''Silex Scintillans'' reappeared in 1655 with a preface attacking "the wi
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• Gurevich system (circus)
  ** Satire Clowning
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• I Was Following This Girl
  ...early fifties.) Many of the early parts of the book seem more like social satire of the so-called [[Swinging London]] scene of the mid- and late-1960s than
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• Satire/Notable satires
  [[Edmund Spenser]] ''Mother Hubberds Tale'' (1591). An allegorical satire on church governance and the court, following the failure of Spenser's hope
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• Rudyard Kipling
  ...ies (didactic, humorous or exotic), horror, humour, [[science fiction]], [[satire]], romance, and adventure. The stories for children include ''The Jungle B
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• On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates
  ...ember 1837, Kierkegaard had considered writing a thesis on "The Concept of Satire", and noted in July 1839 that he might "desire to write a dissertation on s
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• The Lie
  '''''The Lie''''' is a poem of political and social [[satire]] probably written by [[Sir Walter Ralegh]],<ref>While Ralegh is the most l
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• Prizzi's Glory
  ...hip. Condon's ear for dialogue has never been keener, and this razor-sharp satire on the American dream is the most cynical and entertaining view of U.S. pol ...e exerts as much charm as before. But readers with a taste for rough-edged satire will find considerable pleasure along the way—in the vitriolic swipes at
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• Novel
  ...l".) [[Miguel de Cervantes]]' ''[[Don Quixote]]'' (1605) started out as a satire on the romances, but itself included some tales of that nature. In Spain, ...orks, some of which continued the picaresque tradition. The first major [[satire|satirical]] novel was [[Jonathan Swift]]'s ''[[Gulliver's Travels]]'' (1726
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• The Fools in Town Are on Our Side
  ...mas]] that mixes elements of espionage and political thrillers with social satire.
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• The Manchurian Candidate
  ...ale about (what else?) a mother and a son: and (c) an irate sociopolitical satire that tries to flay our sibboleths alive.... [There is] blinding thrust-and- ...confusion like derailed freight cars.... In the end. the effort at global satire proves too strenuous. In spite of a climax as apocalyptic as any since King
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• Harry Mount
  ...Wisdom of Boris Johnson'' which is not, as anyone might expect it to be, a satire.<ref name=theguardian2022-09-02/> His other works include ''Amo, Amas, Amat
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• Cockney
  ...s in use in this sense as early as 1600, when [[Samuel Rowlands]] in his [[satire]] ''The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head-Vaine'', referred to 'a Bow-be
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• James Hogg
  ...s Edinburgh Magazine'', for which he started the ''Chaldee Manuscript'', a satire completed by [[John Gibson Lockhart|J G Lockhart]] and John Wilson, which g
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• Samuel Johnson
  ...periodical to describe itself as a magazine. In 1738 Johnson's Juvenalian satire, ''London'' was published. The biographical ''Life of Mr. Richard Savage''
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• Al Franken
  Franken's interest in politics developed through the political satire he produced for ''Saturday Night Live''.<ref>{{cite web|last=Corliss |first
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• Michael Z. Lewin
  ...ner. He is the son of [[Leonard C. Lewin]], author of the 1967 bestselling satire ''[[The Report from Iron Mountain: On the Possibility and Desirability of P
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• Sri Lanka, history/Bibliography
  * Obeyesekere, Ranjini. ''Sri Lankan Theater in a Time of Terror: Political Satire in a Permitted Space.'' (1999). 210 pp.
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• Prizzi's Honor
  <blockquote>Of course, Mr. Condon is an old pro at mixing satire and suspense. Twenty years ago, he began a novel with an outlandish comic p
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• Roman de Fauvel
  The ''Roman de Fauvel'' is laden with allegories and political satire. The donkey's name, which when broken down forms ''fau-vel'', or "veiled li
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• Paris Peace Talks
  ...[[Nobel Peace Prize]] for 1973, but Tho refused his award.<ref>"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize," is
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• Molière
  ...]] writer for the [[theatre]] and one of the masters of [[comedy|comic]] [[satire]]. He was also a [[theatre director|theatre director]] and [[actor]]. ...nerisms and affectations then common in France. He coined the phrase "that satire," ''castigat ridendo mores'' (criticises customs through [[humour]]), somet
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• Arthur Griffith
  ...well as participation in [[Westminster]]. Griffiths sustained polemic and satire played its role in that parties decline in the next two decades.
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• Prizzi's Family
  <blockquote>At first the ''prequel'' seemed to be satire and then appeared to be heading toward spoof. Complainant waited to laugh a
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• Percy Bysshe Shelley
  * ''The Masque of Anarchy'' (1819). Although this vicious satire on the reactionary government in Britain was sent to Leigh Hunt for publica
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• Ireland, protohistory
  The 2nd century poet [[Juvenal]], in his second ''Satire'', contrasting the victories of the Roman army with the low morals of the p
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• Richard Condon/Citable Version
  ...oving and easily accessible, they generally combined elements of political satire, bare-knuckled outrage at the greed and corruption of those in power, and w ...ine review declared that, "Condon was never a satirist: he was a riot in a satire factory. He raged at Western civilization and every last one of its works.
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• Richard Condon
  ...oving and easily accessible, they generally combined elements of political satire, bare-knuckled outrage at the greed and corruption of those in power, and w ...ine review declared that, "Condon was never a satirist: he was a riot in a satire factory. He raged at Western civilization and every last one of its works.
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• Arthur Szyk
  ...strated ''Rewolucja w Niemczech'' (Revolution in Germany) was published, a satire of post-World War I Germany.
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• François Villon
  ...es of [[bequest]]s, often humorous and sometimes sad. He was a master of [[satire]].
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• Hebrew Bible
  ...i’im or Hagiography), encompassing historical books, psalms, proverbs, the satire of Esther, the eroticism of the Song of Solomon, and the wisdom of Ecclesia
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• Tall tale
  ...h, fulfilling all man’s wishes and thus depicting his greed, is utopia and satire at the same time.<ref>De Keyser 1956:14</ref> Varieties occur; thus, the de
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• David Cameron
  ...s clearly an incendiary affair (some toffs reportedly couldn’t stomach the satire and walked out), Lone Scherfig’s film seems uncertain how far to push the
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• Canadian Copyright in Contrast to American Copyright
  ...Bill-C11 to be more encompassing. This would mean that uses under parody, satire, and education would be expanded to be allowed; backup copies would officia
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• John Donne
  ...help persuade Catholics to take the Oath of Supremacy; in 1611 appeared a satire on the Jesuits, ''Ignatius His Conclave''. Both works attracted the approva
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• T.S. Eliot
  The style of the poem is very varied. It includes satire and parody, dramatic monologues, imagism, travel description, slang, and la
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• Lord Byron
  ...riental tales", featuring moody Byronic heroes. These sold well, though a satire on London society did not. After his marriage in January 1815 he was worki
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• Robert Burns
  ...ly. Nevertheless it did give a prominent position to social and religious satire, including ''The Holy Fair''. Poems glorifying Scottish peasant life were
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• Louis XVI
  ...band. The seven-year delay in consummating their marriage led to malicious satire that Louis was impotent and Marie Antoinette promiscuous. When they did hav
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• Thorstein Veblen
  ...f Workmanship'' in 1914; it was his most ambitious work, but it lacked the satire and ridicule that made his other books best-sellers. ''Imperial Germany an
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• W. S. Gilbert
  ...1), The full quote refers to ''[[Pygmalion and Galatea]]'' and reads: "The satire is shrewd, but not profound; the young author is apt to sneer, and he has b ...[[Gilbert Arthur à Beckett]] on ''[[The Happy Land]]'' (1873), a political satire (in part, a parody of his own ''The Wicked World''), which was briefly bann
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• O. Henry
  ...which he started while working at the bank. ''The Rolling Stone'' featured satire on life, people and politics and included Porter's short stories and sketch
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• Maharashtra
  ...hi]], with shows ranging from soap operas, cooking and travel to political satire and game shows.
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• Conventions (theatre)
  ...authors and directors deliberately corrupt conventions for the purposes of satire. In Mil Perrin’s light little comedy called ''The Flaw'' one character t
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• Charles Dickens
  ...nt of the industrial working class. In that work, he uses both vitriol and satire to illustrate how this marginalised social stratum was termed "Hands" by th
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• The Oldest Confession
  ...made the assessment that, "Condon was never a satirist: he was a riot in a satire factory. He raged at Western civilization and every last one of its works."
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• Geoffrey Chaucer
  ...Material that is troubling is deemed metaphoric, while the more forthright satire (which Foxe prefers) is taken literally.
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• Tea Party movement
  |title=National Tea Party Federation Bags Tea Party Express Following Racist Satire | issue = Vanity Fair Daily 124
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• Charles Darwin
  ...keeping press cuttings of thousands of [[review]]s, [[essay|articles]], [[satire]]s, [[parody|parodies]] and [[caricature]]s. Reviewers were quick to pick o
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• Asperger's syndrome
  ...evelop into a rare gift for humor (especially puns, wordplay, doggerel and satire). A potential source of humor is the eventual realization that their litera
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• El Señor Presidente (Asturias novel)
  <blockquote>This magnificent and tragic satire criticizes the prototype of the Latin American dictator who appeared in sev
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• Manga
  ...early 20th century when Rakuten Kitazawa edited the illustrated humor and satire magazine ''Tokyo Puck''.<ref>Schodt, 1986, ''op. cit.,'' pp. 39-47.</ref> K
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