The Facetiae Of Poggio And Other Medieval Story Tellers

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Revival: The Facetiae of Poggio and Other Medieval Story-tellers (1928)

Author : Poggio Bracciolini,
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351339788
Total Pages : 206 pages
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Download or read book Revival: The Facetiae of Poggio and Other Medieval Story-tellers (1928) written by Poggio Bracciolini, and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The facetie, as a literary form, has an ancient lineage, while, if we regard it merely as a humorous tale or jocular anecdote, its history must be almost as old as the first laughs and smiles of prehistoric man. To go back no further, we may trace it in a direct line through Latin literature, to the Greek apopthegm. Facetiae, in the literary sense, are also to be found in Oriental literature, espeically the Persian and the Arabian. The Greek apopthegm and its Roman successor had a different character from the Florentine facetia, but the difference is one rather of matter than form. The ribald, licentious note is not so common in the classic facetaie, and the historical anecdotes treating of kings, princes, and persons of high estate were mostly reverent and often adulatory. Satire and disrespect appeared in the humorous tales of Poggio and his peers. The apopthegm was, as a rule, a brief narrative, as often as not enclosing a moral lesson in an historical anecdote. Or else it was the saying of some wise or great man.

The Facetiae of Poggio and Other Medieval Story-tellers

Author : Poggio Bracciolini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
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Lowering the Bar

Author : Marc Galanter
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299213541
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Lowering the Bar written by Marc Galanter and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2006-08-08 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you call 600 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? Marc Galanter calls it an opportunity to investigate the meanings of a rich and time-honored genre of American humor: lawyer jokes. Lowering the Bar analyzes hundreds of jokes from Mark Twain classics to contemporary anecdotes about Dan Quayle, Johnnie Cochran, and Kenneth Starr. Drawing on representations of law and lawyers in the mass media, political discourse, and public opinion surveys, Galanter finds that the increasing reliance on law has coexisted uneasily with anxiety about the “legalization” of society. Informative and always entertaining, his book explores the tensions between Americans’ deep-seated belief in the law and their ambivalence about lawyers.

Creating East and West

Author : Nancy Bisaha
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812201299
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Conservative Modernists

Author : Christos Hadjiyiannis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108636454
Total Pages : 257 pages
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The Collected Works of John Ford

Author : Brian Vickers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192689398
Total Pages : 653 pages
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Voices of the Renaissance

Author : John A. Wagner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
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Annual Supplement to the Catalogue of the Library of Parliament in Alphabetical and Subject Order

Author : Canada. Library of Parliament
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1220 pages
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The Road to Unity in Psychoanalytic Theory

Author : Elliott Oring
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0765704293
Total Pages : 168 pages
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The Jokes of Sigmund Freud

Author : Elliott Oring
Publisher : Jason Aronson, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 1461631513
Total Pages : 169 pages
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Folktales and Fairy Tales [4 volumes]

Author : Anne E. Duggan Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1610692543
Total Pages : 1751 pages
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The Broadview Book of Medieval Anecdotes

Author : Richard Kay
Publisher : Peterborough [Ont.] : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1228 pages
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The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record

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Philippine Education Magazine

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Total Pages : 780 pages
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Archetypes and Motifs in Folklore and Literature: A Handbook

Author : Jane Garry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135157616X
Total Pages : 552 pages
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Folk Groups And Folklore Genres

Author : Elliott Oring
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 087421324X
Total Pages : 293 pages
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Download or read book Folk Groups And Folklore Genres written by Elliott Oring and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 1986-08-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oring's introductory folklore text consists of a series of essays by leading scholars that give the student a solid sense of major folklore topics and interpretive techniques. Since 1986, when it was first published, this book has met the need for good instructional material at a time of tremendous growth in folklore programs and introductory courses in colleges and universities around the world.