Category: politics

  • Product-of-Your-Time Rhetoric – Is Awareness the Answer?

    Agatha Christie is my third mentor for this year, and she’s also the third British writer who published actively in the ’20s and ’30s. Woolf, Wodehouse, and Christie could, very conceivably, have hung out and had some beers together. They were all about the same age and wrote throughout both World Wars. What’s so interesting…

  • Political Commentary Question in Literature

    We talked about satire and politics last week, but Wodehouse also makes little comments in his works, like the following from Mike and Psmith: “‘I am with you, Comrade Jackson. You won’t mind my calling you Comrade will you? I’ve just become a socialist. It’s a great scheme. You ought to be one. You work for the…

  • Satire II: The Political Sphere of Satire; The Fine Line

    Okay, deep breath. Politics will be mentioned today but I want to be very clear that I’m only talking politics insofar as its relationship with satire. We’ve established that satire is generally presented as a ludicrous solution to a real social problem. The difficulty lies in the fact that different people consider different things ludicrous.…