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Author : David Farley-Hills
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Benevolence of Laughter: Comic Poetry of the Commonwealth and Restoration written by David Farley-Hills and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Farley-Hills
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Benevolence of Laughter: Comic Poetry of the Commonwealth and Restoration written by David Farley-Hills and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Ward
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198894775
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling written by Matthew Ward and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romantic period witnessed decisive interest in how feeling might align with forms of artistic expression. Many critical studies have focused on the serious side and melancholic moods of Romantic poets. Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling instead embraces the sublime and the ridiculous to offer an original and compelling new reading of British Romanticism. It reveals the decisive role laughter and the laughable play in Romantic aesthetics, emotions, and ethics. Matthew Ward shows that laughter was one of the primary means by which Romantics embraced and expanded upon, but also frequently aped and lampooned, sympathetic feeling. The laughter of feeling is both the expression of sympathy and an articulation of its implications, prejudices, and constraints. For Romantic poets like Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats, the sound of laughter carries the hope that greater knowledge of others derives from feeling for and with them through poetry, and this might lead to a better understanding of oneself. Yet laughter also makes these poets acutely aware that our emotional lives are utterly unfamiliar and perhaps ultimately unknowable. Their prosody of laughter enlivens and exposes; it embodies their sense of?and ambitions for?poetry, and yet calls those matters into the most comical and gravest doubt. Laughter helps define what it is to be human. This book shows that it also defines what it is to be a 'Romantic' poet.
Author : Warren L. Chernaik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052124773X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)
Download or read book The Poet's Time written by Warren L. Chernaik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-02-10 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book unites the disciplines of literature and history in an attempt to set the writings of Andrew Marvell in their seventeenth-century context of revolutionary upheaval and counter-revolution. Marvell is seen as a representative figure, illustrating the problems the intellectual inevitably faces when he enters the political arena. Dr Chernaik traces the evolution of Marvell's writings from impartiality to political engagement under the pressure of events. He shows in the earlier part of the book how both 'An Horatian Ode' and 'Upon Appleton House', two of the greatest political poems in the English language, written during the unsettled period of the Commonwealth, are complex works of historical analysis, which present the problem of the choices facing men at a given historical moment. However, after the collapse of Puritan hopes at the Restoration, Marvell moves towards a literature of commitment. Throughout his writings, Chernaik argues, Marvell is both a Puritan and a wit, a fastidious ironist and a moralist like his friend Milton.
Author : John Donne
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253333766
Total Pages : 1158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (337 download)
Download or read book The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 2 written by John Donne and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscript and print history of Donne's poetry, this edition presents newly edited critical texts of the poems and a comprehensive digest of the critical-scholarly commentary on them from Donne's time forward. Textual introductions briefly locate the poems in the context of Donne's life or poetic development, outline the 17th-century textual history of the poems, and sketch the treatment of the text by modern editors. A detailed textual apparatus presents variants collated from many sources and traces the lines of textual transmission"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Nicholas Fisher
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719056833
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (568 download)
Download or read book That Second Bottle written by Nicholas Fisher and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2000-12-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the historical and current place of religion in the Irish education system from the perspective of children's rights and citizenship. It offers a critical analysis of the political, cultural and social forces that have shaped the system, looking at how the denominational model has been adapted to increased religious and cultural diversity in Irish society and showing that recent changes have failed to address persistent discrimination and the absence of respect for freedom of conscience. It relates current debates on the denominational system and the role of the State in education to competing narratives of national identity that reflect nationalist-communitarian or republican political outlooks.This book will be essential reading for students and researchers in the fields of education policy and Church/State relations in Ireland and will also engage non-academic audiences with an interest or involvement in Irish education.
Author : Nigel Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030016839X
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Andrew Marvell written by Nigel Smith and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 635 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Marvell is an intriguing personality, variously identified as a patriot & a spy, a conspirator, closet homosexual, father of the liberal tradition, incendiary satirical pamphleteer & freethinker.
Author : Allan Ingram
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349181641
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Intricate Laughter in the Satire of Swift and Pope written by Allan Ingram and published by Springer. This book was released on 1986-04-02 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harriet Semmes Alexander
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719017063
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book American and British Poetry written by Harriet Semmes Alexander and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Kraft
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350187747
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Enlightenment written by Elizabeth Kraft and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England, with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France, during the European Enlightenment. It argues that comedy in this period is characterized by wit, satire, and humor, provoking both laughter and sympathetic tears. Comic expression in the Enlightenment reflects continuities and engagements with the comedy of previous eras; it is also noted for new forms and preoccupations engendered by the cultural, philosophical, and political concerns of the time, including democratizing revolutions, increasing secularization, and growing emphasis on individualism. Discussions emphasize the period's stage comedy and acknowledge comic expression in various forms of print media including the emerging literary form we now know as the novel. Contributions from scholars reflect a wide variety of interests in the field of 18th-century studies, and the inclusion of a generous number of illustrations throughout demonstrates that the period's visual culture was also an important part of the Enlightenment comic landscape. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: form, theory, praxis, identities, the body, politics and power, laughter and ethics. These eight different approaches to Enlightenment comedy add up to an extensive, synoptic coverage of the subject.
Author : John Donne
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253058392
Total Pages : 845 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, Volume 4.2 written by John Donne and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the ninth in the series of The Variorum Edition of the Poetry of John Donne, presents newly edited critical texts of 25 love lyrics. Based on an exhaustive study of the manuscripts and printed editions in which these poems have appeared, Volume 4.2 details the genealogical history of each poem, accompanied by a thorough prose discussion, as well as a General Textual Introduction of the Songs and Sonets collectively. The volume also presents a comprehensive digest of the commentary on these Songs and Sonets from Donne's time through 1999. Arranged chronologically within sections, the material for each poem is organized under various headings that complement the volume's companions, Volume 4.1 and Volume 4.3.
Author : Jure Gantar
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773528925
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Pleasure of Fools written by Jure Gantar and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Men cannot laugh heartily without showing their teeth," quipped Samuel Butler. From St Paul to Descartes to Adorno, scholars and writers have questioned the ethics of laughter - any laughter. In The Pleasure of Fools, Jure Gantar wrestles with our moral right to laugh and the limitations of contemporary critical approaches.The crucial question is not whether or not there is offensive laughter but whether or not all laughter offends. Almost everyone has felt the bitter stab of malicious laughter and knows that laughter can be cruel, but it is more difficult to decide if there is also laughter that can never insult. Through a reading of Aristophanes, Rabelais, Molière, Fielding, and Rostand, Victorian nonsense poetry, and the philosophical texts of Plato, Dante, and More, Gantar explores the reasons for critics' prejudice against comedy, the specific position of laughter in various utopian societies, and self-deprecating laughter and role of the comedian as its primary producer. His conclusions contradict basic postmodern thought and contribute to current debates on the epistemological nature of criticism.
Author : Charles A. Knight
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139452282
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Literature of Satire written by Charles A. Knight and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-12 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Literature of Satire is an accessible but sophisticated and wide-ranging study of satire from the classics to the present in plays, novels and the press as well as in verse. In it Charles Knight analyses the rhetorical problems created by satire's complex relations to its community, and examines how it exploits the genres it borrows. He argues that satire derives from an awareness of the differences between appearance, ideas and discourse. Knight provides illuminating readings of such satirists familiar and unfamiliar as Horace, Lucian, Jonson, Molière, Swift, Pope, Byron, Flaubert, Ostrovsky, Kundera, and Rushdie. This broad-ranging examination sheds light on the nature and functions of satire as a mode of writing, as well as on theoretical approaches to it. It will be of interest to scholars interested in literary theory as well as those specifically interested in satire.
Author : Germaine Greer
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 0746308884
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (463 download)
Download or read book John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester written by Germaine Greer and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a renowned scholar and broadcaster, this account of Wilmot's work strives to place it in its socio-political context and describe the way the poet and his work were co-opted after his premature death to serve contrasting political agendas.
Author : A. B. Chambers
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271039507
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Andrew Marvell and Edmund Waller written by A. B. Chambers and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Jose
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349066354
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Ideas of the Restoration in English Literature, 1660-71 written by Nicholas Jose and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Liam Semler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429684789
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book The Early Modern Grotesque written by Liam Semler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Early Modern Grotesque: English Sources and Documents 1500-1700 offers readers a large and fully annotated collection of primary source texts addressing the grotesque in the English Renaissance. The sources are arranged chronologically in 120 numbered items with accompanying explanatory Notes. Each Note provides clarification of difficult terms in the source text, locating it in the context of early modern English and Continental discourses on the grotesque. The Notes also direct readers to further English sources and relevant modern scholarship. This volume includes a detailed introduction surveying the vocabulary, form and meaning of the grotesque from its arrival as a word, concept and aesthetic in 16th century England to its early maturity in the 18th century. The Introduction, Items and Notes, complemented by illustrations and a comprehensive bibliography, provide an unprecedented view of the evolving complexity and diversity of the early modern English grotesque. While giving due credit to Wolfgang Kayser and Mikhail Bakhtin as masters of grotesque theory, this ground-breaking book aims to provoke new, evidence-based approaches to understanding the specifically English grotesque. The textual archive from 1500-1700 is a rich and intriguing record that offers much to interested readers and researchers in the fields of literary studies, theatre studies and art history.
