Overview: Studies how nonhuman animals have featured in texts that use humor, irony, and/or exaggeration in social critique.Examines poetry, drama, fiction, journalistic writing, film, television, and social me.Animal Satire. presents a cultural history of animal satire, a critically neglected but persistent presence in the history of cultural production, in which animals expose human folly while the strategies of satire expose the folly of human-animal relations. Highlighting the teeming animal presences across the history of satirical expression from Aristophanes to Twitter, with chapters on
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