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Wit and the Writing of History

Author : Paul Plass
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299118044
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Wit and the Writing of History written by Paul Plass and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wit has many uses in political discourse--to entertain, to underscore or unmask, to hinder or enhance insight. Wit and the Writing of History focuses on how this potential is realized in the historiography of the earlier Principate. Preeminently in Tacitus, to a lesser degree in Suetonius and Dio Cassius, wit is a vehicle for political understanding and judgment of the historical account. As part of Roman political life, hostile anecdotal or epigrammatic wit was deeply embedded in the sources used by historians and is reflected in the rhetoric of their narratives. Some anecdotes may, in fact, have been mere jests later taken as fact, hence the frequent problem of credulity. But what is historically false can be politically true. Not only were political jokes a weapon for making some fair points against the Principate; ancient rhetorical theory recognized that wit in general arises from a violation of normal, expected ways of thinking. What is "funny" is thus disturbing in a serious way as well as amusing, and in the hands of Tacitus wit becomes scalpel as well as sword.

Voltaire's Alphabet of Wit

Author : Voltaire
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258825980
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Voltaire's Alphabet of Wit written by Voltaire and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wit

Author : Margaret Edson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466871830
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Wit written by Margaret Edson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award Margaret Edson's powerfully imagined Pulitzer Prize–winning play examines what makes life worth living through her exploration of one of existence's unifying experiences—mortality—while she also probes the vital importance of human relationships. What we as her audience take away from this remarkable drama is a keener sense that, while death is real and unavoidable, our lives are ours to cherish or throw away—a lesson that can be both uplifting and redemptive. As the playwright herself puts it, "The play is not about doctors or even about cancer. It's about kindness, but it shows arrogance. It's about compassion, but it shows insensitivity." In Wit, Edson delves into timeless questions with no final answers: How should we live our lives knowing that we will die? Is the way we live our lives and interact with others more important than what we achieve materially, professionally, or intellectually? How does language figure into our lives? Can science and art help us conquer death, or our fear of it? What will seem most important to each of us about life as that life comes to an end? The immediacy of the presentation, and the clarity and elegance of Edson's writing, make this sophisticated, multilayered play accessible to almost any interested reader. As the play begins, Vivian Bearing, a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the intricate, difficult Holy Sonnets of the seventeenth-century poet John Donne, is diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer. Confident of her ability to stay in control of events, she brings to her illness the same intensely rational and painstakingly methodical approach that has guided her stellar academic career. But as her disease and its excruciatingly painful treatment inexorably progress, she begins to question the single-minded values and standards that have always directed her, finally coming to understand the aspects of life that make it truly worth living.

Women's Wit and Wisdom: A Book Of Quotations

Author : Susan L. Rattiner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486111857
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Women's Wit and Wisdom: A Book Of Quotations written by Susan L. Rattiner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 400 memorable quotes from the last 2,500 years by Sappho, Queen Elizabeth I, Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt, Erma Bombeck, Oprah Winfrey, and many others. A delight!

Ruse and Wit

Author : Dominic Parviz Brookshaw
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674066700
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Ruse and Wit written by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays examine a millennium of humorous and satirical writing in the Islamic world. Humor in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish narrative emerges here as a culturally modulated phenomenon that demands examination with reference to its historical framework and that, in turn, communicates as much about its producers as it does about its audience.

Great Presidential Wit

Author : Robert J. Dole
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743203925
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Great Presidential Wit written by Robert J. Dole and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former senator and presidential candidate collects bipartisan presidential humor from famous, and not-so-famous, chief executives, from Washington to Clinton.

History of West Virginia, Old and New

Author : James Morton Callahan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of West Virginia, Old and New written by James Morton Callahan and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beyond the Soundtrack

Author : Daniel Ira Goldmark
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520940555
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Soundtrack written by Daniel Ira Goldmark and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-06-08 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking collection by the most distinguished musicologists and film scholars in their fields gives long overdue recognition to music as equal to the image in shaping the experience of film. Refuting the familiar idea that music serves as an unnoticed prop for narrative, these essays demonstrate that music is a fully imagined and active power in the worlds of film. Even where films do give it a supporting role—and many do much more—music makes an independent contribution. Drawing on recent advances in musicology and cinema studies, Beyond the Soundtrack interprets the cinematic representation of music with unprecedented richness. The authors cover a broad range of narrative films, from the "silent" era (not so silent) to the present. Once we think beyond the soundtrack, this volume shows, there is no unheard music in cinema.

A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical

Author : Thomas Arnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical written by Thomas Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century

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Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1030 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living and Deceased, from the Earliest Accounts to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century written by Samuel Austin Allibone and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Index Catalogue of the Woodside District Library

Author : Glasgow (Scotland). Public Libraries. Woodside District Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Index Catalogue of the Woodside District Library written by Glasgow (Scotland). Public Libraries. Woodside District Library and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lectures on the History of Literature

Author : Friedrich von Schlegel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lectures on the History of Literature written by Friedrich von Schlegel and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wit's Treasury

Author : Stephen Orgel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812299876
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Wit's Treasury written by Stephen Orgel and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As England entered the Renaissance and as humanism, with its focus on classical literature and philosophy, informed the educational system, English intellectuals engaged in a concerted effort to remake the culture, language, manners—indeed, the whole national style—through adapting the classics. But how could English literature, art, and culture, become "classical," not only in imitating the ancients, but in the sense subsequently applied to music: "classical" as opposed to popular, as formal, serious, and therefore as good? For several decades in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Stephen Orgel writes, the return to the classics held out the promise of refinement and civility. Poetry was to be modeled on Greek and Roman examples rather than on the great English medieval works, which though admirable, lacked "correctness." More than poetry was at stake, however, and the transition would not be easy. Classical rules seemed the wave of the future, rescuing England from what was seen as the crudeness and the sheer popularity of its native traditions, but advocacy was tempered with a good deal of ambivalence: classical manners and morals were often at variance with Christian principles, and the classicism of the age would need to be deeply revisionist. "Christian humanism" was never untroubled, Orgel writes, always an unstable or even paradoxical amalgam. In Wit's Treasury, one of our foremost interpreters of Renaissance literature and culture charts how this ambivalence yielded the rich creative tension out of which emerged an unprecedented flowering of drama, lyric, and the arts. Orgel has here written a book that will appeal to anyone interested in English Renaissance art and literature, and particularly in the cultural ferment that produced Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, Jonson, and Milton.

Wit's End

Author : James Combs
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443824690
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Wit's End written by James Combs and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the “Great Movies,” that fluid category of feature films deemed by various authorities—film societies, critics, academics, and movie enthusiasts—to be the enduring and memorable works of cinematic history. But what are they about? In Wit’s End, the author attempts to “make sense” of these films in order to understand their greatness in the context of their relation to other films and to the worlds they come from and recreate on screen. To that end, we employ the conceptual power of pragmatic social theory and the rich idea of aesthesis to explore and arrange these films as a means of understanding what they express about the universality of human life in our keen use of wit, organization of social wont, and direction of cultural way. It is hoped that such an inquiry will illuminate the glory of the great films and contribute to the advance of film studies.

The Subject Index to Periodicals

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1560 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Subject Index to Periodicals written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Progress of Wit

Author : Aaron Hill
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781354588918
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (889 download)

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Download or read book The Progress of Wit written by Aaron Hill and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.