Fondements socio-politiques et économiques de la tradition satirique
Socio-political and economic assumptions of satirical tradition

Summary/Abstract: Satire is a literary genre with esthetic value determined by laughter. Every kind of laughteris specific for different periods of economic and social development. The forms of materialproduction underlie the perception of the comic. Satirical traditions are intrinsic to nationalideological systems. Satire commits seditious attacks against social ideologies. It influencesthe politics and the politics influences the satire which is only possible with a certain levelof sociopolitical development of a society. Satirical tradition can be formed and establishedonly at conditions of democratic political tradition, otherwise it takes perverted shapes.

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