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Satire Through Mimicry
Cooperman, Stanley | March 5, 1955 issue

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The article presents information on "The Ecstasy of Owen Muir," by Ring Lardner Jr. Wielding the napier of satire, Lardner in "The Ecstasy of Owen Muir," makes shambles of rigid Catholic dogma, political stuffed-shirtism, and moral double-think. His formidable combination of sophistication with outrageous mimicry has enabled him to create a modern "Candide," a frankly opinionated satire that will amuse all but the most inflexible. The flaw in "The Ecstasy of Owen Muir" is that Lardner limits his attack, there are areas of extreme political and social thought equally open to satire which he approaches too gingerly.

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ECSTASY of Owen Muir, The (Book); LARDNER, Ring, 1915-2000; SATIRE; DOGMA; LITERATURE
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