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Author : Thomas Franklin Dunn (jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Facetiae of the Mensa Philosophica written by Thomas Franklin Dunn (jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ulrich Marzolph
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814347754
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)
Download or read book 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition written by Ulrich Marzolph and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive exploration of the Middle Eastern roots of Western narrative tradition. Against the methodological backdrop of historical and comparative folk narrative research, 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition surveys the history, dissemination, and characteristics of over one hundred narratives transmitted to Western tradition from or by the Middle Eastern Muslim literatures (i.e., authored written works in Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Turkish). For a tale to be included, Ulrich Marzolph considered two criteria: that the tale originates from or at least was transmitted by a Middle Eastern source, and that it was recorded from a Western narrator's oral performance in the course of the nineteenth or twentieth century. The rationale behind these restrictive definitions is predicated on Marzolph's main concern with the long-lasting effect that some of the "Oriental" narratives exercised in Western popular tradition—those tales that have withstood the test of time. Marzolph focuses on the originally "Oriental" tales that became part and parcel of modern Western oral tradition. Since antiquity, the "Orient" constitutes the quintessential Other vis-à-vis the European cultures. While delineation against this Other served to define and reassure the Self, the "Orient" also constituted a constant source of fascination, attraction, and inspiration. Through oral retellings, numerous tales from Muslim tradition became an integral part of European oral and written tradition in the form of learned treatises, medieval sermons, late medieval fabliaux, early modern chapbooks, contemporary magazines, and more. In present times, when national narcissisms often acquire the status of strongholds delineating the Us against the Other, it is imperative to distinguish, document, visualize, and discuss the extent to which the West is not only indebted to the Muslim world but also shares common features with Muslim narrative tradition. 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition is an important contribution to this debate and a vital work for scholars, students, and readers of folklore and fairy tales.
Author : William F. Hansen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801436703
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Ariadne's Thread written by William F. Hansen and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ariadne's Thread is a mini-encyclopedia of more than a hundred such international oral tales, all present in the literature of ancient Greece and Rome. It takes into account writings, including early Jewish and Christian literature, recorded in or translated into Greek or Latin by writers of any nationality. As a result, this book will be invaluable not only to classicists and folklorists but also to a wide range of other readers who are interested in stories and storytelling."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Barbara C. Bowen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000948412
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Humour and Humanism in the Renaissance written by Barbara C. Bowen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the articles in this volume, eight concern a world-famous author (François Rabelais); the others are studies of little-known authors (Cortesi, Corrozet, Mercier) or genres (the joke, the apophthegm). The common theme, in all but one, is humour: how it was defined, and how used, by orators and humanists but also by court jesters, princes, peasants and housewives. Though neglected by historians, this subject was of crucial importance to writers as different as Luther, Erasmus, Thomas More and François Rabelais. The book is divided into four sections. 'Humanist Wit' concerns the large and multi-lingual corpus of Renaissance facetiae. The second and third parts focus on French humanist humour, Rabelais in particular, while the last section is titled '"Serious" Humanists' because humour is by no means absent from it. For the Renaissance, as Erasmus and Rabelais amply demonstrate, and as the 'minor' authors studied here confirm, wit, whether affectionate or bitingly satirical, can coexist with, and indeed be inseparable from, serious purpose. Rabelais, as so often, said it best: 'Rire est le propre de l'homme.'
Author : Barbara C. Bowen
Publisher : Summa Publications, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book One Hundred Renaissance Jokes written by Barbara C. Bowen and published by Summa Publications, Inc.. This book was released on 1988 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ian Munro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351961454
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book 'A womans answer is neuer to seke': Early Modern Jestbooks, 1526–1635 written by Ian Munro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns witty and inane, crude and learned, scurrilous and moralistic, jestbooks offer an important and often overlooked viewpoint on the lives of women in early modern England. This volume reproduces seven jestbooks with connections to early modern Englishwomen as well as showing something of the broad genre itself. Four have a direct connection to women through their jests and framing (Wyddow Edyth, VVestward for Smelts, Long Meg of VVestminster, and Pasqvils Iests), excerpts from two books specifically focus on women in some sections (The Schoolemaster and Wits Fittes and Fancies) and the volume also includes the extremely popular, general jestbook (A C. Mery Talys).
Author : Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Washington University Studies written by Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Folklore Fellows
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book FF Communications written by Folklore Fellows and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Washington University Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Indiana University Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 1266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeff Persels
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351936824
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art written by Jeff Persels and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feces, urine, flatus, phlegm, vomitus - unlike ourselves, our most educated forebears did not disdain these functions, and, further, they employed scatological references in all manner of works. This collection of essays was provoked by what its editors considered to be a curious lacuna: the relative academic neglect of the copious and ubiquitous scatological rhetoric of Early Modern Europe, here broadly defined as the representation of the process and product of elimination of the body's waste products. The contributors to this volume examine the many forms and functions of scatology as literary and artistic trope, and reconsider this last taboo in the context of Early Modern European expression. They address unflinchingly both the objective reality of the scatological as part and parcel of material culture - inescapably a much larger part, a much heavier parcel then than now - and the subjective experience of that reality among contemporaries.
Author : Herbert Richard Grummann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Mean Velocity of Flow of Water in Open Channels written by Herbert Richard Grummann and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Adolphus William Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of English Literature: Renascence and reformation written by Sir Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans Warren
Publisher : Terrace Books
ISBN 13 : 9780299209803
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Secretly Inside written by Hans Warren and published by Terrace Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Dutch countryside the war seems far away. For most people, at least. But not for Ed, a Jew in Nazi-occupied Holland trying to find some safe sanctuary. Compelled to go into hiding in the rural province of Zeeland, he is taken in by a seemingly benevolent family of farmers. But, as Ed comes to realize, the Van 't Westeindes are not what they seem. Camiel, the son of the house, is still in mourning for his best friend, a German soldier who committed suicide the year before. And Camiel's fiery, unstable sister Mariete begins to nurse a growing unrequited passion for their young guest, just as Ed realizes his own attraction to Camiel. As time goes by, Ed is drawn into the domestic intrigues around him, and the farmhouse that had begun as his refuge slowly becomes his prison.
Author : Lewis Francis Thomas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Localization of Business Activities in Metropolitan St. Louis written by Lewis Francis Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc Galanter
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299213536
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Lowering the Bar written by Marc Galanter and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 450 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.
Author : Sir Adolphus William Ward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of English Literature written by Sir Adolphus William Ward and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
