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From the Latin ''satira'', meaning medley or mixture. | From the Latin ''satira'', meaning medley or mixture. | ||
Nowadays the term describes texts which have a critical tone and ridicule social or moral problems and political deficits. Literary scholars are still undecided whether satire is a genre of its own, or a literary mode (a way of writing). | Nowadays the term describes texts which have a critical tone and ridicule social or moral problems and political deficits. Literary scholars are still undecided whether satire is a genre of its own, or a literary mode (a way of writing). | ||
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''Oxford Companion to English Literature'', ed. Margaret Drabble, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. | |||
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From the Latin satira, meaning medley or mixture. Nowadays the term describes texts which have a critical tone and ridicule social or moral problems and political deficits. Literary scholars are still undecided whether satire is a genre of its own, or a literary mode (a way of writing).
Source:
Oxford Companion to English Literature, ed. Margaret Drabble, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985.