Literature: Satire & Parody

Literature that holds up a distorting mirror to wisdom, knowledge and culture so their counterfeits become visible: the sophist mocked (Aristophanes' Clouds), folly praising itself (Erasmus), received ideas catalogued (Flaubert), history misremembered (Sellar & Yeatman), culture and science reduced to buzzwords (Weller). For Renaissance 3.0 it is the literary home of the sophomoros books, the mirror of sophomoronia.

· 423 BCE– · active