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Author : John Galsworthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 930 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book A Modern Comedy written by John Galsworthy and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Will Stockton
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816674590
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Playing Dirty written by Will Stockton and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The repression of desire uncovered in the production of scatological comedy.
Author : John Galsworthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book In Chancery written by John Galsworthy and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Chancery is the second novel of the Forsyte Saga trilogy by John Galsworthy and was originally published in 1920, some fourteen years after The Man of Property. Like its predecessor it focuses on the personal affairs of a wealthy upper middle class English family.
Author : John Galsworthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781406572032
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (72 download)
Download or read book A Modern Comedy written by John Galsworthy and published by . This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Galsworthy OM (1867-1933) was an English novelist and playwright. He is viewed as one of the first writers of the Edwardian era; challenging in his works some of the ideals of society depicted in the preceeding literature of Victorian England. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. From the Four Winds was Galsworthy's first published work in 1897, a collection of short stories. These, and several subsequent works, were published under the pen name John Sinjohn and it would not be until The Island Pharisees (1904) that he would begin publishing under his own name. His first play, The Silver Box (1906) became a success, and he followed it up with The Man of Property (1906), the first in the Forsyte trilogy. Along with other writers of the time such as Shaw his plays addressed the class system and social issues, two of the best known being Strife (1909) and The Skin Game (1920).
Author : John Galsworthy
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1667624393
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (676 download)
Download or read book SILENT WOOING written by John Galsworthy and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2023 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galsworthy's sequel to The Forsyte Saga came in A Modern Comedy, written in the years 1924 to 1928. This comprises a novel, The White Monkey, an interlude, A Silent Wooing, a second novel, The Silver Spoon, a second interlude, Passers By, and a third novel, Swan Song.
Author : Adam Zucker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107003083
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Places of Wit in Early Modern English Comedy written by Adam Zucker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of wit, witlessness and social and comic conventions in the plays of Shakespeare, Jonson and their contemporaries.
Author : James Curtis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496811992
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book Last Man Standing written by James Curtis and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Times Literary Supplement 2017 Book of the Year On December 22, 1953, Mort Sahl took the stage at San Francisco's hungry i and changed comedy forever. Before him, standup was about everything but hard news and politics. In his wake, a new generation of smart comics emerged--Shelley Berman, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Lenny Bruce, Bob Newhart, Dick Gregory, Woody Allen, and the Smothers Brothers, among others. He opened up jazz-inflected satire to a loose network of clubs, cut the first modern comedy album, and appeared on the cover of Time surrounded by caricatures of some of his frequent targets such as Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Adlai Stevenson, and John F. Kennedy. Through the extraordinary details of Sahl's life, author James Curtis deftly illustrates why Sahl was dubbed by Steve Allen as "the only real political philosopher we have in modern comedy." Sahl came on the scene the same year Eisenhower and Nixon entered the White House, the year Playboy first hit the nation's newsstands. Clad in an open collar and pullover sweater, he adopted the persona of a graduate student ruminating on current events. "It was like nothing I'd ever seen," said Woody Allen, "and I've never seen anything like it after." Sahl was billed, variously, as the Nation's Conscience, America's Only Working Philosopher, and, most tellingly, the Next President of the United States. Yet he was also a satirist so savage the editors of Time once dubbed him "Will Rogers with fangs." Here, for the first time, is the whole story of Mort Sahl, America's iconoclastic father of modern standup comedy. Written with Sahl's full cooperation and the participation of many of his friends and contemporaries, it delves deeply into the influences that shaped him, the heady times in which he soared, and the depths to which he fell during the turbulent sixties when he took on the Warren Commission and nearly paid for it with his career.
Author : John Galsworthy
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9781034990321
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)
Download or read book A Modern Comedy written by John Galsworthy and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Galsworthy OM (1867-1933) was an English novelist and playwright. He is viewed as one of the first writers of the Edwardian era; challenging in his works some of the ideals of society depicted in the preceeding literature of Victorian England. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1932. Notable works include The Forsyte Saga (1906-1921) and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. From the Four Winds was Galsworthy's first published work in 1897, a collection of short stories. These, and several subsequent works, were published under the pen name John Sinjohn and it would not be until The Island Pharisees (1904) that he would begin publishing under his own name. His first play, The Silver Box (1906) became a success, and he followed it up with The Man of Property (1906), the first in the Forsyte trilogy.
Author : John Galsworthy
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504081145
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Swan Song written by John Galsworthy and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final novel of “a social satire of epic proportions and one that does not suffer by comparison with Thackeray’s Vanity Fair” (The New York Times). From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1932 Set against the backdrop of a post–World War I Britain, now rocked by a general strike, Swan Song captures the staunch resilience—and ridiculousness—of the British upper middle class, who view this new national crisis as just a minor inconvenience. As the ever-so-steadfast Winifred Dartie says, “If they could get this little fuss over, the coming season would be most enjoyable.” Especially since Jon Forsyte and his American wife have visited from France. Though eager to pitch in to help his homeland, Jon never expects his return will have such an effect on his former love, Fleur Mont, now married to a member of Parliament and a mother. Even when the strike abates, their reunion sends ripples through their friends and family, including Fleur’s father. He knows his daughter wants nothing more than what she doesn’t have—and to save her from herself—he sets out to stay one step ahead of her duplicitous heart . . . “It is such a joy to read a book which is unquestionably a good piece of work, that tells you on the first page that it is going to tell its story gracefully, with technical skill, and with that rare quality of fineness. Swan Song has quite literally greatness—to say more about it would be to spill gilt paint over a calla.” —Chicago Tribune
Author : John Galsworthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781518804366
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (43 download)
Download or read book A Modern Comedy Trilogy written by John Galsworthy and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-28 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Galsworthy was an English author and playwright best known for writing The Forsyte Saga and its sequels, A Modern Comedy and End of the Chapter. Galsworthy even won the Novel Prize in Literature in 1932.This includes the following:The White MonkeyThe Silver SpoonSwan Song
Author : John Galsworthy
Publisher : New York, Charles Scribner's Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Silver Spoon written by John Galsworthy and published by New York, Charles Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1926 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Agnes Heller
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739112465
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (124 download)
Download or read book Immortal Comedy written by Agnes Heller and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first attempt to think philosophically about the comic phenomenon in literature, art, and life. Working across a substantial collection of comic works author Agnes Heller makes seminal observations on the comic in the work of both classical and contemporary figures. Whether she's discussing Shakespeare, Kafka, Rabelais, or the paintings of Brueghel and Daumier Heller's Immortal Comedy makes a characteristic contribution to modern thought across the humanities.
Author : William Paul
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Laughing, Screaming written by William Paul and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of an extremely popular box office genre - the gross-out movie - Laughing Screaming is a serious study of this unashamedly lowbrow product.
Author : Nicholas Holm
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319509500
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (195 download)
Download or read book Humour as Politics written by Nicholas Holm and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that recent developments in contemporary comedy have changed not just the way we laugh but the way we understand the world. Drawing on a range of contemporary televisual, cinematic and digital examples, from Seinfeld and Veep to Family Guy and Chappelle’s Show, Holm explores how humour has become a central site of cultural politics in the twenty-first century. More than just a form of entertainment, humour has come to play a central role in the contemporary media environment, shaping how we understand ideas of freedom, empathy, social boundaries and even logic. Through an analysis of humour as a political and aesthetic category, Humour as Politics challenges older models of laughter as a form of dissent and instead argues for a new theory of humour as the cultural expression of our (neo)liberal moment.
Author : Árpád Szakolczai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 041562391X
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Comedy and the Public Sphere written by Árpád Szakolczai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims at reframing the discussion on the "public sphere," usually understood as the place where the public opinion is formed, through rational discussion. The aim of this book is to give an account of this rationality, and its serious shortcomings, examining the role of the media and the confusing of public roles and personal identity. It focuses in particular on the role of the theatrical and comical in the historical development of the public sphere, and in this manner reformulating definitions of common sense, personal identity, and culture.
Author : Stanley Elkin
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453204105
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Boswell written by Stanley Elkin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2010-10-26 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elkin’s striking debut: The story of one man’s comic attempts at immortality James Boswell is a professional strongman and a wrestler. He is also a loveable leech who amasses friends of wealth and influence as his own insurance policy against death, an obsession that leads him from coast to coast, crashing parties and mentioning any celebrity whose name will grant him an ounce of social currency. But when those around him begin dying, Boswell is forced to confront his own mortality and determine once and for all how to find permanence in an ephemeral world. Poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, Boswell is Elkin’s engaging novel of one man’s desperate attempts to outmaneuver death, and an acerbic take on the follies of the American Dream. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.
Author : Caty Borum Chattoo
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520299760
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar written by Caty Borum Chattoo and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy is a powerful contemporary source of influence and information. In the still-evolving digital era, the opportunity to consume and share comedy has never been as available. And yet, despite its vast cultural imprint, comedy is a little-understood vehicle for serious public engagement in urgent social justice issues – even though humor offers frames of hope and optimism that can encourage participation in social problems. Moreover, in the midst of a merger of entertainment and news in the contemporary information ecology, and a decline in perceptions of trust in government and traditional media institutions, comedy may be a unique force for change in pressing social justice challenges. Comedians who say something serious about the world while they make us laugh are capable of mobilizing the masses, focusing a critical lens on injustices, and injecting hope and optimism into seemingly hopeless problems. By combining communication and social justice frameworks with contemporary comedy examples, authors Caty Borum Chattoo and Lauren Feldman show us how comedy can help to serve as a vehicle of change. Through rich case studies, audience research, and interviews with comedians and social justice leaders and strategists, A Comedian and an Activist Walk Into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice explains how comedy – both in the entertainment marketplace and as cultural strategy – can engage audiences with issues such as global poverty, climate change, immigration, and sexual assault, and how activists work with comedy to reach and empower publics in the networked, participatory digital media age.
