"Satire, who was she?" He told Don Abbondio ne'-I-betrothed, from the bottom of his culture, a culture with small c.
no coincidence that I took one of the most famous jokes Manzoni "Carneades, who was he?" to testify prevailing ignorance of our age, of credulity that drags into oblivion and unconsciousness.
Because of its hybrid nature, its not a genre with well-established boundaries, is often difficult to give an unambiguous definition of satire, especially when taking into account the fact that it can be annoying, and you tend to demonize. From
Zingarelli Italian dictionary of the language we read the following definition: "a poem wittily criticizing human weaknesses, all satirical poems of an author, a period of a literature discussion, writing, and the like that attitude has more or less explicitly intended to ridicule environments, concepts, ways of living and the like. "
From this simple definition we conclude that, besides indicating a work of literature, the concept expands to include even the salacious joke wittily.
Although it underscored the critical judgments of satire, highlighted the sharpness and not simply the act of mock or make fun of, but rather the set of subtlety, intelligence, irony, allusion and humor, the meaning is still a bit 'vague. If we want to be more precise, can help the definition that gave the Supreme Court: "[satire] is the manifestation of thought at times of very high level in the time he took on the task of" Chastise laughing mores "or to indicate the public about questionable or reprehensible aspects of people, in order to get through the rice generated, a final outcome of ethical, that is, corrective to the good. "(First Criminal Chamber of the Court of Cassation, Judgement n.9246/2006) The question is increasingly what its scope, the mode of expression, if the satire may be half of "information" or whether it should only make you laugh, but especially if it must have limits or we should impose red lines.
In this regard I call satire a muse infected, just to distinguish it from the other nine figures of Greek and Roman mythology. They represented the highest ideal of art and each acting in a given field. The satire is another muse than the sublime, is an art which has no precise location in a genre, which also deals with dirt and shallow, though in its own way is a form of poetry. Thanks to the emotional impact that causes the satire, is capable of stirring the conscience and is the oldest form of expression of critical thinking, which is used for social purposes and to reduce impact of demythologizing exaggerated manifestations of the dominant power. He was born to express the negativity of a state, behavior or mentality, and it must be distinguished from the "teasing", which is a mere mockery of physical defects of a particular speech or clumsy behavior. Dario says that it must be sharp and should enter into the merits of human affairs. The Satire is such only if it combines the comic critique of humanity, but that should not be construed as the means to fake moderates, who better to conduct their private affairs, political or economic, would reduce it to barzelletta.La satire was carried on continuously throughout history, often repressed and persecuted by a succession of illiberal regimes, and dictatorial obtuse, confused with defamation. If defamation is defined as the attempt to harm a person attributing faults and defects exist, the meaning dellasatira is diametrically opposed.
The key feature of satire should always be to criticize what is wrong: the policy can and should be one of its arguments, because of its importance, it governs the country, affects the economy and society in a profound way, then a fortiori an activity must be flawless and harshly criticized otherwise.
Even today there are those who must separate from information clearly satire. The politicians, either through ignorance or bad faith or for both reasons, they say one thing to satirize, is one thing to tell: what very true, if not then you do not pretend that the satire is not even a pinch of politics and current events, without 'topical satire does not exist. And to the question "What can the satire? And what limits do you have? " For to answer is the same, saying that it can do anything, has no limit. The only limits are those which makes the actor, but not to stop, or shame and so on, rather than a consequence of rhythm, timing and trends of the show. Unfortunately, today a satire so accusatory no longer seems to exist: the power is well shielded behind the complaints ol'anatema threat of excommunication, and satirists have well-concealed feathers. The satire has gone through all our history, that both our east Tota, nowadays more and more becomes silent! Epiphany
Lo Presti (May 2009)
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