Tag: mock-heroic satire

The Mock-Heroic Mode: Treating the Trivial with Epic Seriousness

How To Write Satire – The Mock-Heroic Mode: Treating the Trivial with Epic Seriousness — How satirists use grand literary forms to expose the gap between pretension and reality

by Bethan Morgan

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Mock-Heroic Satire: When the Epic Meets the Absurd

How To Write Satire – Mock-Heroic Satire: When the Epic Meets the Absurd — The formal technique of applying epic grandeur to trivial subjects, from Pope’s Rape of the Lock to Monty Python

by Hannah Miller

3 Minute

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Encyclopedia of Satire

Tag: mock-heroic satire

The Mock-Heroic Mode: Treating the Trivial with Epic Seriousness

Mock-Heroic Satire: When the Epic Meets the Absurd