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Author Stanners, Barbara, author, author

Title Exploring genre : satire / by Barbara Stanners
Published Putney, N.S.W : Phoenix Education, 2012
Putney, New South Wales : Phoenix Education, 2012
©2012

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 MELB  809.5 S7893/E  AVAILABLE
Description 158 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cm
Series Exploring genre and style
Exploring genre and style
Contents Defining satire -- Greek and Roman origins -- Satiric style and comic devices --Critical study of text -- Classical Greek comedy -- Lysistrata / Aristophanes -- Gullíver's Travels and A Modest Proposal /Swift -- William Holgarth-- The School for Scandal / Richard Sheridan -- Northanger Abbey / Jane Austen -- The Importance of Being Earnest / Oscar Wilde -- Brave New World / Aldous Huxley -- Unknown Citizen/ W.H. Auden -- Animal Farm and 1984 / George Orwell -- Catch 22 / Joseph Heller -- Satirìc Poetry / Robert Browning and Bruce Dawe -- Frontline / Working Dog Productions -- Responding to Written Satire -- Advice to Youth / Mark Twain -- Examination Day / Henry Seslar -- Suburban Sonnet /Miriam Stone -- Up the Woll /Bruce Dawe -- Exclusive Pictures / Steve Turner -- Giri Reporter / Philip Hausbaum -- Responding to visual satire -- Scenic Drive / R. Cobb -- Political cartoons -- Composing skills
Summary Each title in this series of teacher resource books, intended for use with students in Years 9-12, starts with a detailed definition of the genre, followed by an examination of a wide range of texts
Analysis Australian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Audience For secondary students
Subject English language -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Fiction genres.
Fiction genres -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Higher School Certificate Examination (N.S.W.) -- Study guides.
Literary form -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Literary form -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Satire -- History and criticism.
Satire -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
Satire -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Australia -- New South Wales.
Genre/Form Study guides.
ISBN 1921586451
9781921586453 (paperback)
Other Titles Satire