TY - ADVS ED - Contemporary Arts Media (Firm) TI - What is satire? U1 - 808.87 PY - 2006///] CY - South Fremantle, Western Australia PB - Contemporary Arts Media KW - Satire N1 - "Contemporary arts media educating imagination"--Container N2 - Students review traditional targets for satire - pompous, domineering and hypocritical people ; social, political and religious institutions - and traditional uses of satire - to amuse, criticise or persuade with varying degrees of subtlety. Songs, essays, poems and works of fiction drawn from many periods illuminate the origins, development and results of this genre. Satirists such as Swift, Shaw, Woody Allen and Dorothy Parker are presented ER -