Satire
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Role-Playing, Witty Language, and Woman’s Agency in Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer.
Kawa Othman Omer Ahmed
Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer has been widely considered by critics as one of the most significant comedies in England’s 18th Century. Its popularity is due to the dramatist’s cunning use of satire and humour as artistic means of entertainment. Noticeably, critics mostly have focused on the aesthetic values of the dramatist’s use of satire and humour. However, this research provides a new reading, particularly the significance of the heroine’s bodily and linguistic role-playing. Firstly, the research investigates the extent the heroine’s role-playing enables the male protagonist to undergo personality change from a reserved and anti-social into a more tolerant and open-minded personality. Secondly, the research investigates the extent the heroine’s witty rhetoric, together with her role-playing, exposes patriarchal misconceptions, biases, and prejudices about women and marriage by the authoritarian figures. Notably, the easiness through which the heroine changes identities and social roles, symbolically, throws into question the fixability and naturalness of social roles in the play. Symbolically, the heroine’s performative acts of role-playing , whether bodily or linguistically, confirms postmodern feminist’s theory, particularly Third -Wave Feminism , with regard to constructiveness and performativity of gender and identity. Methodologically, the research applies Close- reading approach; that is, New Criticism, as well as Feminist approach. Moreover, the research is significant because it investigates the co-relation between the heroine’s role-playing and her quest for selfhood.
Volume 12 · Issue 3 · June 2025Social Satire in the Southern Kurdistan Journalism 1920-1950
Karwan Saleem Qaitaran, Muhammad Dler Amin Muhammad
Satire as an important aspect of literature is about mocking and criticizing the follies of the society and people through a literary genre. Social satire, as the subject of this research, is a witty criticism based on the flaws of the society; its goal is to drive social change. Social satire was an essential part of the southern Kurdistan journalism during the (1920-1950). Poets, writers at the period used it to criticize the vices of the Kurdish society for changing and developing their society. The present research is entitled (Social Satire in the Southern Kurdistan Journalism 1920-1950). It is composed of two chapters. The first chapter, in two sections, discusses the concept of satire, its definition, and the history of Kurdish journalism. The second chapter is divided into two sections as well. The first section discusses satire and its types in terms of content. The second section is devoted to the social satire in the southern Kurdistan journalism 1920-1950. The research ends with the results and the list of the references consulted for the study.