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Tricksters and Pranksters

Author : Alison Williams
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004488790
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Tricksters and Pranksters written by Alison Williams and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume represents a contribution to comparative scholarship in Medieval and Renaissance studies in its investigation of the ingenious diversity of roguish practices found in Medieval and Renaissance literature and its recognition of the coherent normative function of tales of tricksters and pranksters. The wide variety of works analysed, from those forming part of the established canon of texts on undergraduate degree schemes to lesser-known works, makes the volume of interest to students and researchers alike. The roguish behaviour of women, priests, foxes and outlaws and the knavery of Eulenspiegel and Panurge are used to illustrate how rituals of inversion and humiliation typical of the medieval carnival are reflected in literary accounts of trickery, and to question whether the restorative function attributed to carnival celebration is equally to be found in the intra-textual and extra-textual outcomes of trickery. This analysis is supported by studies into the trickster in mythology, sociological investigations into the role of disorder, Bakhtinian theories of carnival and the carnivalesque, and theories of black humour.

Tricksters Then Pranksters Today

Author : Rebecca Bishop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Tricksters Then Pranksters Today written by Rebecca Bishop and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bishop examines the fascination of the human race with being clever, witty, sly, cunning and tricky as it applies to cultural identities; often thus illustrated in the form of practical jokes. Through the exploration of practical jokes of various people, cultures and generations, Bishop seeks to shed light into the humanistic qualities and enjoyment of practical jokes while entertaining the reader.

Pranksters

Author : Kembrew McLeod
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814796303
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Pranksters written by Kembrew McLeod and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Benjamin Franklin's newspaper hoax that faked the death of his rival to Abbie Hoffman’s attempt to levitate the Pentagon, pranksters, hoaxers, and con artists have caused confusion, disorder, and laughter in Western society for centuries. Profiling the most notorious mischief makers from the 1600s to the present day, Pranksters explores how “pranks” are part of a long tradition of speaking truth to power and social critique. Invoking such historical and contemporary figures as P.T. Barnum, Jonathan Swift, WITCH, The Yes Men, and Stephen Colbert, Kembrew McLeod shows how staged spectacles that balance the serious and humorous can spark important public conversations. In some instances, tricksters have incited social change (and unfortunate prank blowback) by manipulating various forms of media, from newspapers to YouTube. For example, in the 1960s, self-proclaimed “professional hoaxer” Alan Abel lampooned America’s hypocritical sexual mores by using conservative rhetoric to fool the news media into covering a satirical organization that advocated clothing naked animals. In the 1990s, Sub Pop Records then-receptionist Megan Jasper satirized the commodification of alternative music culture by pranking the New York Times into reporting on her fake lexicon of “grunge speak.” Throughout this book, McLeod shows how pranks interrupt the daily flow of approved information and news, using humor to underscore larger, pointed truths. Written in an accessible, story-driven style, Pranksters reveals how mischief makers have left their shocking, entertaining, and educational mark on modern political and social life.

Tricksters and Pranksters in Medieval and Renaissance French and German Literature

Author : Alison Jane Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book Tricksters and Pranksters in Medieval and Renaissance French and German Literature written by Alison Jane Williams and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Trickster Figure in American Literature

Author : Winifred Morgan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137344725
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The Trickster Figure in American Literature written by Winifred Morgan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes and offers fresh insights into the trickster tradition including African American, American Indian, Euro-American, Asian American, and Latino/a stories, Morgan examines the oral roots of each racial/ethnic group to reveal how each group's history, frustrations, and aspirations have molded the tradition in contemporary literature.

Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110556529
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sciences in the pre-modern world. Under the umbrella term 'magic,' the contributors to this volume examine a wide range of texts, both literary and religious, both medical and philosophical, in which the topic is discussed from many different perspectives. The fundamental concerns address issue such as how people perceived magic, whether they accepted it and utilized it for their own purposes, and what impact magic might have had on the mental structures of that time. While some papers examine the specific appearance of magicians in literary texts, others analyze the practical application of magic in medical contexts. In addition, this volume includes studies that deal with the rise of the witch craze in the late fifteenth century and then also investigate whether the Weberian notion of disenchantment pertaining to the modern world can be maintained. Magic is, oddly but significantly, still around us and exerts its influence. Focusing on magic in the medieval world thus helps us to shed light on human culture at large.

Clowns and Tricksters

Author : Kimberly A. Christen
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clowns and Tricksters written by Kimberly A. Christen and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 1998-11-18 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference explores an imagined world, where creatures much like humans strive and connive and behave and misbehave. Describing these jokers and troublemakers by popular name, appearance, and origins, about 200 cross-referenced and indexed entries examine their relationships to their cultures and recount tales featuring them. Numerous bandw illustrations bring the ragtag assembly to life. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy

Author : Eric Weitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316154289
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy written by Eric Weitz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Laughter', says Eric Weitz, 'may be considered one of the most extravagant physical effects one person can have on another without touching them'. But how do we identify something which is meant to be comic, what defines something as 'comedy', and what does this mean for the way we enter the world of a comic text? Addressing these issues, and many more, this is a 'how to' guide to reading comedy from the pages of a dramatic text, with relevance to anything from novels and newspaper columns to billboards and emails. The book enables you to enhance your grasp of the comic through familiarity with characteristic structures and patterns, referring to comedy in literature, film and television throughout. Perfect for drama and literature students, this Introduction explores a genre which affects the everyday lives of us all, and will therefore also capture the interest of anyone who loves to laugh.

German-speaking Exiles in Great Britain

Author : Ian Wallace
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042013735
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book German-speaking Exiles in Great Britain written by Ian Wallace and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven essays, most in English and a handful in German, reflect the experience of German and Austrian refugees who landed in Great Britain during the Nazi era. Three are case studies of academics and professionals who built new careers in England; two focus on refugee children, one concentrating on the fate of those educated at leading German-Jewish institutions, and one on the reading habits of children across two cultures; and the remaining essays examine developments in the political and cultural spheres. The index lists names only, not subjects. c. Book News Inc.

Moving Subjects

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401200246
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Moving Subjects written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Procession, arguably the most ubiquitous and versatile public performance mode until the seventeenth century, has received little scholarly or theoretical attention. Yet, this form of social behaviour has been so thoroughly naturalised in our accounts of western European history that it merited little comment as a cultural performance choice over many centuries until recently, when a generation of cultural historians using explanatory models from anthropology called attention to the processional mode as a privileged vehicle for articulation in its society. Their analyses, however, tended to focus on the issue of whether processions produced social harmony or reinforced social distinctions, potentially leading to conflict. While such questions are not ignored in this collection of essays, its primary purpose is to reflect upon salient theatrical aspects of processions that may help us understand how in the performance of “moving subjects” they accomplished their often transformative cultural work.

American Tricksters

Author : William J. Jackson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630877336
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book American Tricksters written by William J. Jackson and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tricksters are known by their deeds. Obviously not all the examples in American Tricksters are full-blown mythological tricksters like Coyote, Raven, or the Two Brothers found in Native American stories, or superhuman figures like the larger-than-life Davy Crockett of nineteenth-century tales. Newer expressions of trickiness do share some qualities with the Trickster archetype seen in myths. Rock stars who break taboos and get away with it, heroes who overcome monstrous circumstances, crafty folk who find a way to survive and thrive when the odds are against them, men making spectacles of themselves by feeding their astounding appetites in public--all have some trickster qualities. Each person, every living creature who ever faced an obstacle and needed to get around it, has found the built-in trickster impulse. Impasses turn the trickster gene on, or stimulate the trick-performing imagination--that's life. To explore the ways and means of trickster maneuvers can alert us to pitfalls, help us appreciate tricks that are entertaining, and aid us in fending off ploys which drain our resources and ruin our lives. Knowing more about the Trickster archetype in our psyches helps us be more self-aware.

Pranks, Bants and Whatev's Fanbook

Author : Harriet Paul
Publisher : Lion Fiction
ISBN 13 : 9781783705566
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Pranks, Bants and Whatev's Fanbook written by Harriet Paul and published by Lion Fiction. This book was released on 2017 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective

Author : William Robins
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487535139
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective written by William Robins and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into ten days of ten novellas each, Boccaccio’s Decameron is one of the literary gems of the fourteenth century. The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective is an interpretive guide to the stories of the text’s Day Eight – a day dedicated to tales of tricks and practical jokes. By drawing on literary precursors such as fabliaux, epic, philosophy, exempla, Dante’s Commedia, and scripture, and by meditating on the dynamics of civic engagement in fourteenth-century Florence, Boccaccio develops in these stories of jests a self-consciously literary representation of the Florentine social imaginary. The essays in this volume, all written by prominent scholars, survey previous scholarship and open up new cultural and historical perspectives on Boccaccio’s sophisticated art of storytelling. They analyze both the literary sources that Boccaccio’s comic narratives transform, as well as the political, legal, and ethical contexts with which they engage. Each contributor tackles a single tale, yet their essays also register major themes and concerns that recur throughout Day Eight, allowing for close connections among the essays.

Tear Off the Masks!

Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400843731
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Tear Off the Masks! written by Sheila Fitzpatrick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When revolutions happen, they change the rules of everyday life--both the codified rules concerning the social and legal classifications of citizens and the unwritten rules about how individuals present themselves to others. This occurred in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, which laid the foundations of the Soviet state, and again in 1991, when that state collapsed. Tear Off the Masks! is about the remaking of identities in these times of upheaval. Sheila Fitzpatrick here brings together in a single volume years of distinguished work on how individuals literally constructed their autobiographies, defended them under challenge, attempted to edit the "file-selves" created by bureaucratic identity documentation, and denounced others for "masking" their true social identities. Marxist class-identity labels--"worker," "peasant," "intelligentsia," "bourgeois"--were of crucial importance to the Soviet state in the 1920s and 1930s, but it turned out that the determination of a person's class was much more complicated than anyone expected. This in turn left considerable scope for individual creativity and manipulation. Outright imposters, both criminal and political, also make their appearance in this book. The final chapter describes how, after decades of struggle to construct good Soviet socialist personae, Russians had to struggle to make themselves fit for the new, post-Soviet world in the 1990s--by "de-Sovietizing" themselves. Engaging in style and replete with colorful detail and characters drawn from a wealth of sources, Tear Off the Masks! offers unique insight into the elusive forms of self-presentation, masking, and unmasking that made up Soviet citizenship and continue to resonate in the post-Soviet world.

What Remains?

Author : Rupert Callender
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1915294126
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book What Remains? written by Rupert Callender and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death is not my friend, neither is it my enemy; it is my destiny. “Rupert Callender hope[s] to redefine the funeral.”—The Telegraph When he became an undertaker, Rupert Callender undertook to deal with the dead for the sake of the living. What Remains? is the brilliant, unforgettable story of the life and work of the world’s ﬁrst punk undertaker—but it is also a book about ordinary, everyday humanity and our capacity to face death with courage and compassion. To say goodbye to the people we love in our own way. In becoming the world’s first “punk undertaker” and establishing the Green Funeral Company in Devon, UK, Ru Callender and his partner Claire challenged the stilted, traditional, structured world of the funeral industry; fusing what he had learned from his own deeply personal experiences with death, with the surprising and profound answers and raw emotion he discovered in rave culture and ritual magick. From his unresolved grief for his parents and his cultural ancestors to political and religious non- conformists, social outlaws, experimental pioneers, and acid house culture, Ru Callender has taken too an outsider “DIY” ethos to help people navigate grief and death. He has carried coffins across windswept beaches, sat in pubs with caskets on beer-stained tables, helped children fire flaming arrows into their father’s funeral pyre, turned modern occult rituals into performance art and, with the band members of KLF, is building the People’s Pyramid of bony bricks in Liverpool. What Remains? is a profound, deeply moving, and politically charged book that will change the way readers think about life, death, and the all-important end-of-life experience. “Death has shown me unimaginable horror, the unbreakable core of love and courage that lies at the heart of what it means to be human.”—Rupert Callender, from What Remains?

A Portrait of the Artist as Australian

Author : Paul Matthew St. Pierre
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773526440
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book A Portrait of the Artist as Australian written by Paul Matthew St. Pierre and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first critical assessment of Humphries' entire oeuvre, especially his career as an author. Arguing that Humphries is one of Australia's greatest writers, the author reveals a multi-faceted artist whose success is rooted in the British music hall tradition, Dadaism and grotesquerie. Being Australian has also fundamentally shaped the performer and writer, and the author's defence of Humphries against charges of expatriatism is pertinent to the debate on Australian national identity.

Pickle

Author : Kimberly Baker
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1596437650
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book Pickle written by Kimberly Baker and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a bogus name, the League of Picklemakers, sixth-grader Ben and three recruits start a prank-pulling club and receive funding from their middle school's PTA. Illustrations.