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Fun, Frolics and Fandangos with Satire

By Anna Nolan

Fun, Frolics and Fandangos with Satire Contemporary literature

Fun, Frolics and Fandangos with Satire

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This irreverently satirical book pokes fun at the bureaucracy rampaging across quango-land; the vagaries of office life, with its endless meetings, counter-productive wellness programmes and pointless motivational events; the absurdity of many corporate visions and missions; the comicality of jargon beloved by officialdom; the pomposity of inflated job titles; political correctness gone mad; and the wholesale takeover of our daily lives by digital technologies, including artificial intelligence.
The book also attempts to defuse - albeit in a light-hearted way - some of the usage booby-traps strewn across the English language.We laugh at the comical name and farcical purpose of the organisation parodied in the book, at its absurd hierarchy and taxpayer-enabled profligacy, at the pointlessness of its frenzied working practices, at the abundance of its committees with their ridiculous names and remits and at its surreal rebranding exercise.
We also chuckle at the highly inventive names of the book's protagonists and gasp in disbelief at the linguistic ineptitude of the organisation's editorial team and at the ludicrous phraseology used by the mocked bureaucrats in their countless policies, directives, rules, regulations, edicts, decrees, statutes, precepts, schedules, memoranda and the like.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
250
Release Date:
2025-11-28
Publication Date:
2025-11-28
Publisher:
The Book Guild
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1835743463
ISBN13:
9781835743461
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
270 g
Height:
129 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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