Department or Program
English
Abstract
This thesis focuses on the satirical works of Max Beerbohm’s Zuleika Dobson and Karl Kraus’ The Last Days of Mankind. The thesis, examining the locality of satire and the particularities of each individual text, asks whether satire ever transcends time and geographical barriers, or whether it necessarily remains local and confined within a particular time period. Beerbohm wrote in Oxford in 1911 and Kraus in Vienna in 1918, and the thesis contends that satire must be grounded in the period the satirist is writing in. It then questions whether or not there can be specific elements of the texts that can be deemed universal. Such social parameters as power structures, acquiescence, and complicity provide the ground to probe methodologically at the works of Foucault, Russell, Bakhtin, and Hutcheon.
Level of Access
Open Access
First Advisor
Freedman, Sanford
Date of Graduation
Spring 5-2013
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Recommended Citation
Bettles, Matthew Joseph, "Satire and the Necessity of Locale: Genealogical Readings in Max Beerbohm and Karl Kraus" (2013). Honors Theses. 68.
https://scarab.bates.edu/honorstheses/68
Number of Pages
122
Open Access
Available to all.