Exploring Genre: Satire

Each title in this series of teacher resource books, intended for use with students in middle and senior secondary years, starts with a detailed definition of the genre, followed by an examination of a wide range of texts with:

• background information
• information about text and context
• ideas on genre conventions, representation of themes, characters, style
• suggestions and strategies for dealing with the texts
• a wide range of student activities to suit different year levels, with emphasis on what is being said and how it is being said, with questions
• response tasks

Contents

• Defining Satire
• Greek and Roman Origins
• Satiric Style and Comic Devices
• Critical Study of Text
• Classical Greek Comedy
• Lysistrata – Aristophanes
• Gulliver'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
• Satiric Poetry – Robert Browning
• Satiric Poetry - 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 Wall – Bruce Dawe
• Exclusive Pictures – Steve Turner
• Girl Reporter – Philip Hausbaum
• Responding to Visual Satire
• Scenic Drive – R. Cobb
• Political Cartoons
• Composing Skills