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The Little Sublime Comedy

Author : John Gallas
Publisher : Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784104752
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book The Little Sublime Comedy written by John Gallas and published by Carcanet Press Ltd. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Little Sublime Comedy John Gallas reanimates one of the great works of world literature for the twenty-first century. Relocated from medieval Italy to modern-day New Zealand, Dante's Divine Comedy is given a new lease of life in Gallas's darkly funny, surreal adaptation. Discovered snoozing on a mountainside above Lake Rotoiti, Mr Gallas – our millennial Dante – is taken under the wing by his Horatian guide, one Samuel Beckett. Over the course of 147 'songs' we accompany the pair on their journey through the Bad Place, the Better Place and the Good Place, and witness the horrors and delights that befall the dead. On our way we encounter a skiing Pohutukawa Tree, a Golden Kiwi, Lineout the dog, a Vegetable Ewe, souls falling off things, Philosophy, and lots of bright, coloured lights. Divine order is replaced by modern Physics, by Klein bottles, super-speeds and black holes. Gallas's Comedy is a metaphysical plunge through torment and triumph, as subtly satirical as it is unsubtly silly.

Eight Cozy Nights

Author : Julia Wolf
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781731015785
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Eight Cozy Nights written by Julia Wolf and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It'll take a miracle for the two of them to last more than eight nights... Larissa: Hanukkah's never been my favorite holiday. In fact, I usually forget it's happening. This year though, despite nearly being killed by my tall drink of water new neighbor, I'm in the mood to celebrate. Only I can't seem to find my menorah... Yo: Hanukkah's one of my favorite holidays. I look forward to celebrating every December. This year could be more interesting than ever, when a gorgeous, curvy (and grumpy) woman moves in next door. Only I seem to have misplaced my candles... Together these two opposites will light up the night. If you love Hallmark movies, but sometimes wish the language was a tad saltier and the loves scenes, well, existed, then this funny, sweet, and sexy Hanukkah novella is for you.

My Begging Chart

Author : Keiler Roberts
Publisher : Drawn & Quarterly
ISBN 13 : 1770465383
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book My Begging Chart written by Keiler Roberts and published by Drawn & Quarterly. This book was released on 2021-11-25 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keiler Roberts mines the passing moments of family life to deliver an affecting and funny account of what it means to simultaneously exist as a mother, daughter, wife, and artist. Drawn in an unassuming yet charming staccato that mimics the awkward rhythm of life, no one’s foibles are left unspared, most often the author’s own. When Roberts considers whether or not to dust the ceiling fan, it’s effectively relevant. She can get lost in the rewarding melodrama of playing Barbies with her daughter and will momentarily snap out of her depression. Her harmless fibs to get through the moment are brought up by her daughter a year or two later, yet without hesitation Roberts will request that her daughter’s imaginary friend not visit when she is around. Her MS diagnosis lingers in the background, never taking center stage. In My Begging Chart, her most encompassing work yet, Keiler meditates on routine and stillness. The vignettes of her everyday life exude immense presence, making her comics thoroughly relatable and reflective of our all-too-human lives as they unfold with humour, sadness, and relieving joy. In transporting these stories onto paper, Keiler observes, and at times relishes, a fleeting present.

A New Sublime

Author : Piero Boitani
Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN 13 : 160945538X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book A New Sublime written by Piero Boitani and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book “as bewitching and entertaining as a novel” a renowned Italian literary critic “uncovers the unexpected, extraordinary modernity of the classics” (Piero Dorfles). In A New Sublime, literary critic Piero Boitani reveals the timeless beauty and wisdom of ancient literature, highlighting its profound and surprising connections to the present. Ranging from Homer to Tacitus, with Thucydides, Aristotle, Sophocles, Cicero, and many others in between, Boitani’s fresh and inspiring insights remind us of the enduring importance and beauty of the classics of the Western canon. Boitani explores what the classics have to say about the mutability and fluidity of identity and matter, the power and position of women in society. He also looks closely at their depictions of force and subjugation, fate and free will, the ethical life, hospitality, love, compassion, and mysticism. Through it all, he shows how the classics can play active roles in our contemporary lives.

One Day Guy

Author : Julia Wolf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (144 download)

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Download or read book One Day Guy written by Julia Wolf and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first time I saw Joe Silver, I was an awkward seventeen-year-old girl and he was the blue-eyed, tight-jeaned rocker performing on stage. In an unexpected twist, we became friends, until I wanted more. Then he utterly demolished my heart. Now I'm thirty-one, slightly less awkward, and Joe Silver just strolled into my little town. Instead of a rock star, he's now a music teacher, but he's still got the same irresistible pull as he did that first night. He's everything I want in a man: funny, sweet, gainfully employed, and sexy as hell. He's also the guy who turned my life upside down. I'm wary and my battered heart doesn't quite trust him, even though he's working his way past my poorly constructed barriers. Joe Silver might be my forever...or he might earn a second entry on my list of heartbreaks. One Day Guy is a small town, slow burn, second chance romance that is high on swoony and funny moments, and low on angst (but just enough!)....plus some rad nineties dance moves. (One Day Guy was originally titled Cut Short. It is newly revised and expanded for 2020!)

Reading the Romantic Ridiculous

Author : Andrew McInnes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 104009886X
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Romantic Ridiculous written by Andrew McInnes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-02 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading The Romantic Ridiculous aims to take Romantic Studies from the sublime to the ridiculous. Building on recent work that decentres the myth of the solitary genius, this duograph theorises the ridiculous as an alternative affect to the sublime, privileging collective laughter above solitude and selfishness and reflecting on these ideals through the practice of joint authorship. Tracing the history of the ridiculous through Romantic and post-Romantic debates about sublimity, from the rediscovery of Longinus and the aesthetic theories of Burke and Kant to contemporary queer and postcolonial theory interested in silliness, lowness, and vulnerability, Reading the Romantic Ridiculous explores Romanticism's surprising commitments to ridiculousness in canonical material by writers such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, and Charles Lamb as well as lesser-known material from joke books to children's literature. In theory and practice, this duograph also considers the legacies of Romanticism – and ridiculousness – today, analysing their influence on independent film, sitcoms, and young adult fiction, as well as their place in higher education now.

Victorian Comedy and Laughter

Author : Louise Lee
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 1137578823
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Comedy and Laughter written by Louise Lee and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative collection of essays is the first to situate comedy and laughter as central rather than peripheral to nineteenth century life. Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality,Jokes and Dissent offers new readings of the works of Charles Dickens, Edward Lear,George Eliot, George Gissing, Barry Pain and Oscar Wilde, alongside discussions of much-loved Victorian comics like Little Tich, Jenny Hill, Bessie Bellwood and Thomas Lawrence. Tracing three consecutive and interlocking moods in the period, all of the contributors engage with the crucial critical question of how laughter and comedy shaped Victorian subjectivity and aesthetic form. Malcolm Andrews, Jonathan Buckmaster and Peter Swaab explore the dream of print culture togetherness that is conviviality, while Bob Nicholson, Louise Lee, Ann Featherstone,Louise Wingrove and Oliver Double discuss the rise-on-rise of the Victorian joke — both on the page and the stage — while Peter Jones, Jonathan Wild and Matthew Kaiser consider the impassioned debates concerning old and new forms of laughter that took place at the end of the century.

Linguistic Theories of Humor

Author : Salvatore Attardo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111280330
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Theories of Humor written by Salvatore Attardo and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2024-07-22 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linguistic Theories of Humor appeared thirty years ago. It attracted a lot of attention and ended up being one of the most quoted books in the linguistics of humor. Partly due to its broad coverage which includes both theoretical and socio-pragmatic aspects and partly due to the depth of its bibliography it remained an indispensable reference in many areas, despite the growth of the field. The original fully corrected text is supplemented by a long essay, in which the author revisits the topics of the book to discuss how three decades have shifted the perspective of the field.

The Sense of Humor

Author : Max Eastman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Sense of Humor written by Max Eastman and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine

Author : Josiah Gilbert Holland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 988 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine written by Josiah Gilbert Holland and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Scribner's Monthly

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Scribner's Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Use of Comic Episodes in Tragedy

Author : William Henry Hadow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Use of Comic Episodes in Tragedy written by William Henry Hadow and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Judy, Or the London Serio-comic Journal

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judy, Or the London Serio-comic Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Eighteenth Century English Novel

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438114931
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book The Eighteenth Century English Novel written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early novelists such as Samuel Richardson, Daniel Defoe, and Laurence Sterne helped create the formula for the modern novel.

The English Novel, Vol II

Author : Richard. W. F. Kroll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317894642
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book The English Novel, Vol II written by Richard. W. F. Kroll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English Novel, Volume II: Smollett to Austen collects a series of previously-published essays on the early eighteenth-century novel in a single volume, reflecting the proliferation of theoretical approaches since the 1970s. The novel has been the object of some of the most exciting and important critical speculations, and the eighteenth-century novel has been at the centre of new approaches both to the novel and to the period between 1750 and 1800. Richard Kroll's introduction seeks to frame the contributions by reference to the most significant critical discussions. These include: the general importance of 'sentimentalism' as a cultural movement after 1750; its relationship to the emergence of the Gothic novel as a specific genre or mode; the rapid rise in the number of women novelists in the later eighteenth century; the relationship between the novel as mediator of social relations and the idea of the 'public sphere'; the relationship between novelistic codes and the massive growth of a consumerist society; the class conflicts of writers like Smollett; the effect on the novel of the new 'British' nation; and the effects of the French Revolution and the subsequent political debates on writers like Wollstonecraft, Godwin, and Austen. This collection will be of interest to students of the later enlightenment, and also to all who are interested in late eighteenth-century radicalism, and the general relationship between literature, history, and politics.

Encyclopedia of Humor Studies

Author : Salvatore Attardo
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483364704
Total Pages : 985 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Humor Studies written by Salvatore Attardo and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 985 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Humor: A Social History explores the concept of humor in history and modern society in the United States and internationally. This work’s scope encompasses the humor of children, adults, and even nonhuman primates throughout the ages, from crude jokes and simple slapstick to sophisticated word play and ironic parody and satire. As an academic social history, it includes the perspectives of a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, child development, social psychology, life style history, communication, and entertainment media. Readers will develop an understanding of the importance of humor as it has developed globally throughout history and appreciate its effects on child and adult development, especially in the areas of health, creativity, social development, and imagination. This two-volume set is available in both print and electronic formats. Features & Benefits: The General Editor also serves as Editor-in-Chief of HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research for The International Society for Humor Studies. The book’s 335 articles are organized in A-to-Z fashion in two volumes (approximately 1,000 pages). This work is enhanced by an introduction by the General Editor, a Foreword, a list of the articles and contributors, and a Reader’s Guide that groups related entries thematically. A Chronology of Humor, a Resource Guide, and a detailed Index are included. Each entry concludes with References/Further Readings and cross references to related entries. The Index, Reader’s Guide themes, and cross references between and among related entries combine to provide robust search-and-browse features in the electronic version. This two-volume, A-to-Z set provides a general, non-technical resource for students and researchers in such diverse fields as communication and media studies, sociology and anthropology, social and cognitive psychology, history, literature and linguistics, and popular culture and folklore.

Impure Cinema

Author : Lúcia Nagib
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857723065
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Impure Cinema written by Lúcia Nagib and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impure Cinema goes back to Bazin's original title precisely for its defence of impurity, applying it on the one hand to cinema's interbreeding with other arts and on the other to its ability to convey and promote cultural diversity. In contemporary progressive film criticism, ideas of purity, essence and origin have been superseded by favourable approaches to 'hybridization', 'transnationalism', 'multiculturalism' and cross-fertilizations of all sorts. Impure Cinema builds on this idea in novel and exciting ways, as it draws on cinema's combination of intermedial and intercultural aspects as a means to bridge the divide between studies of aesthetics and culture. Film is revealed here as the location par excellence of media encounters, mutual questioning and self-dissolution into post-medium experiments. Most importantly, the book argues, film's intermedial relations can only be properly understood if their cultural determinants are taken into account. Scholars and students of film, cinefiles and students of the arts will discover here unexpected connections across many artistic practices.