UFG+Proposal-Jameson


 * Unfamiliar Genre Project Proposal**


 * Genre**: Satiric Essay.


 * Why Interested**: I’ve always been interested in satire. I remember reading "A Modest Proposal" as an undergrad. It was the first time I had heard of it, and since the teacher didn't warn anyone, I was pretty surprised when I got to the bit about eating the children of the poor. I generally like literature that is humorous and serious at the same time, so I read a lot of satire, but I haven't really had any reason to write it myself until now.


 * What I know about the genre**: I knew that satire often attempts to recreate the position that the author would like to discredit, by taking arguments to absurd extremes in order to highlight what they see as unethical or immoral reasoning. But narratives can also be satirical, and other forms can employ satire. The only satiric essay I could think of when I first began to research and read was Swift's "Modest Proposal" but I watched a few satirical monologues online because they share many similarities.