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Download or read book Jesting Angels written by Ken Bazyn and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-06-22 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "All of us ought to be ready to laugh at ourselves," wrote theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, "because all of us are a little funny in our foibles, conceits, and pretensions." Yes, to a greater or lesser extent, we all belong to Hypocrites Anonymous. Laughter helps us to preserve sanity in a crazed world; provides the lubrication we so desperately need to deal with irritating people and situations. Furthermore, it accents our need for humility by pricking the balloons of vain pretension. These vivid poems are thick with allusions to literature, theology, spirituality, history, and legend. They range from sentimental impressions of the Iowa State Fair to a fantasy visit to All Saint's Night in Dublin; from musings on the extinct dodo to a whimsical take on the pranks mischievous angels play; from a litany of the likely suspects in a murder mystery to a beatnik's view of the ascension. In life, no doubt we will become the butt of many well-deserved jokes. As Don Quixote's sidekick, Sancho Panza, once acknowledged, "Master, I confess that all I need to be a complete ass is a tail." Laughter, then becomes, in the words of Niebuhr, "a vestibule to the temple of confession."
Book Synopsis From Jest to Earnest by : Edward Payson Roe
Download or read book From Jest to Earnest written by Edward Payson Roe and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis From Jest to Earnest by : Edward Payson Roe
Download or read book From Jest to Earnest written by Edward Payson Roe and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a Victorian-era American novel. It features a plot hatched by a very popular young belle who seems to have all men adore her, and who decides to ensnare a new visitor ( who happens to be a pastor) just for fun and to amuse her friends. Her plan, however, comes unstuck and does not go the way she thought it would.
Book Synopsis Works: From jest to earnest by : Edward Payson Roe
Download or read book Works: From jest to earnest written by Edward Payson Roe and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Eternity’s Jest by : Jamshed R Bilimoria
Download or read book Eternity’s Jest written by Jamshed R Bilimoria and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-01-19 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to give up your agitation and be successful in your career as well as personal life all at once? Do you also want to pursue the road less taken? There is no contradiction. This memoir is of a man who understood this at an early age. He spent his adult life devoted full time to the quest. It was a roller coaster!
Book Synopsis Shakespeare Jest-books by : William Carew Hazlitt
Download or read book Shakespeare Jest-books written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare Jest-Books written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shakespeare Jest-Books" by Various. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Book Synopsis Infinite Jest by : David Foster Wallace
Download or read book Infinite Jest written by David Foster Wallace and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2009-04-13 with total page 1451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America Set in an addicts' halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human — and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do. With a foreword by Tom Bisell. "The next step in fiction...Edgy, accurate, and darkly witty...Think Beckett, think Pynchon, think Gaddis. Think." —Sven Birkerts, The Atlantic
Book Synopsis Shakespeare in Jest by : Indira Ghose
Download or read book Shakespeare in Jest written by Indira Ghose and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-08 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare in Jest draws fascinating parallels between Shakespeare's humour and contemporary humour. Indira Ghose argues that while many of Shakespeare's jokes no longer work for us, his humour was crucial in shaping comedy in today's entertainment industry. The book looks at a wide variety of plays and reads them in conjunction with examples from contemporary culture, from stand-up comedy to late night shows. Ghose shows the importance of jokes, the functions of which are remarkably similar in Shakespeare’s time and ours. Shakespeare's wittiest characters are mostly women, who use wit to puncture male pretensions and to acquire cultural capital. Clowns and wise fools use humour to mock their betters, while black humour trains the spotlight on the audience, exposing our collusion in the world it skewers. In a discussion of the ethics of humour, the book uncovers striking affinities between Puritan attacks on the theatre and contemporary attacks on comedy. An enjoyable and accessible read, this lively book will enlighten and entertain students, researchers, and general readers interested in Shakespeare, humour, and popular culture.
Book Synopsis A Jest of God by : Margaret Laurence
Download or read book A Jest of God written by Margaret Laurence and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world. Trapped in a milieu of deceit and pettiness – her own and that of others – Rachel longs for love, and contact with another human being who shares her rebellious spirit. Through her summer affair with Nick Kazlik, a schoolmate from earlier years, she learns at last to reach out to another person and to make herself vulnerable. A Jest of God won the Governor General’s Award for 1966 and was released as the successful film, Rachel, Rachel. The novel stands as a poignant and singularly enduring work by one of the world’s most distinguished authors.
Book Synopsis Death's Jest-Book by : Reginald Hill
Download or read book Death's Jest-Book written by Reginald Hill and published by Seal Books. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three times DCI Pascoe has wrongly accused dead-pan joker Franny Roote. This time he’s determined to leave no gravestone unturned as he tries to prove that the ex-con and aspiring academic is mad, bad, and dangerous to know. Meanwhile, Edgar Wield rides to the rescue of a child in danger, only to find he has a rent-boy with a priceless secret under his wing. DC Bowler is looking forward to a blissful New Year with the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, her dreams are filled with a horror too terrible to tell . . . And over all this activity broods the huge form of DS Andy Dalziel. As trouble builds, the Fat Man discovers (as have many deities before him) that omniscience can be more trouble than it’s worth and that sometimes all omnipotence means is that you can have any colour you want, as long as it’s black.
Book Synopsis Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by : Unknown
Download or read book Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare written by Unknown and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The New London Jest Book, for 1828 by :
Download or read book The New London Jest Book, for 1828 written by and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shakespeare Jest-books: Merie tales of Skelton. Jests of Scogin. Sackfull of newes. Tarleton's jests. Merrie conceited jests of George Peele. Jacke of Dover by : William Carew Hazlitt
Download or read book Shakespeare Jest-books: Merie tales of Skelton. Jests of Scogin. Sackfull of newes. Tarleton's jests. Merrie conceited jests of George Peele. Jacke of Dover written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shakespeare Jest-books: Merie tales of Skelton. Jests of Scogin. Sackfull of newes. Tarlton's jests. Merrie conceited jests of George Peele, Jacke of Dover by : William Carew Hazlitt
Download or read book Shakespeare Jest-books: Merie tales of Skelton. Jests of Scogin. Sackfull of newes. Tarlton's jests. Merrie conceited jests of George Peele, Jacke of Dover written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The New London Jest Book by : William Carew Hazlitt
Download or read book The New London Jest Book written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The New London Jest Book by : Anonymous
Download or read book The New London Jest Book written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-20 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
