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Author : Mark Twain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (839 download)
Download or read book Humanity Has Unquestionably One Really Effective Weapon--laughter written by Mark Twain and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ayon Banerjee
Publisher : BecomeShakespeare.com
ISBN 13 : 9390040094
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book As you Life it - Work as usual. Life as unusual written by Ayon Banerjee and published by BecomeShakespeare.com. This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time is a queer commodity that is reconstructed in memories and deconstructed in regrets as it goes by. Most of us sleepwalk through our youth in trying to win some kind of an identity . Then we stumble upon middle age & scramble to preserve that identity . And suddenly, standing at mid-point , we realize that somewhere in this medley of all the artificial races we were enlisting in, we have quietly let go of our greatness. Partly by default , partly by design. The first pangs of urgency hit us. We know this is no dress rehearsal. It is our own life that is gliding past. We straighten up and reach for it. And try to snare it on print. This book is Ayon’s attempt to capture his journey at intermission, narrated through a heterogeneous ensemble of his articles that take you through events, relationships, successes and failures which add up into the randomness of his life that he joins backwards into coherent stories.
Author : Minnie M. Brashear
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806187557
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Art, Humor, and Humanity of Mark Twain written by Minnie M. Brashear and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Twain is revealed here in an entirely new autobiographical light from his own writings as they reflect his career, his thinking, and his humor. This volume captures the grandeur that distinguishes Mark Twain as, in the words of George Bernard Shaw, “by far the greatest American writer.” Made up of short stories and excerpts from Twain’s principal works, this collection demonstrates Twain’s artistry in handling anecdotes, tales, description, and characterization; the fervency of his ethical convictions; his effective use of irony, satire, burlesque, and caricature; and his essential humanity. By arranging the materials in chronological order and weaving them together with critical commentary, the editors present the many facets of Mark Twain’s experience and his dynamic personality with greater continuity than in previous collections of Twain’s writings. Here is the optimism of the young Mark Twain responding to the rough and rugged vitality of the mid-nineteenth-century American scene, and the skepticism and pessimism of the older Mark Twain reacting to the American democratic experiment of the late nineteenth century.
Author : Bernard Schweizer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429589662
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)
Download or read book Christianity and the Triumph of Humor written by Bernard Schweizer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the development of religious comedy and leverages that history to justify today’s uses of religious humor in all of its manifestations, including irreverent jokes. It argues that regulating humor is futile and counterproductive, illustrating this point with a host of comedic examples. Humor is a powerful rhetorical tool for those who advocate and for those who satirize religious ideals. The book presents a compelling argument about the centrality of humor to the story of Western Christianity’s cultural and artistic development since the Middle Ages, taking a multi-disciplinary approach that combines literary criticism, religious studies, philosophy, theology, and social science. After laying out the conceptual framework in Part 1, Part 2 analyzes key works of religious comedy across the ages from Dante to the present, and it samples the breadth of contemporary religious humor from Brad Stine to Robin Williams, and from Monty Python to South Park. Using critical, historical, and conceptual lenses, the book exposes and overturns past attempts by church authorities, scholars, and commentators to limit and control laughter based on religious, ideological, or moral criteria. This is a unique look into the role of humor and comedy around religion. It will, therefore, appeal to readers interested in multiple fields of inquiry, including religious studies, humor studies, the history of ideas, and comparative literature.
Author : Joseph Csicsila
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826271863
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book Centenary Reflections on Mark Twain's No. 44, the Mysterious Stranger written by Joseph Csicsila and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first book on No. 44 in thirty years, thirteen especially commissioned essays by some of today's most accomplished Twain scholars cover an array of topics, from domesticity and transnationalism to race and religion, and reflect a variety of scholarly and theoretical approaches to the work. This far-reaching collection considers the status of No. 44 within Twain's oeuvre as they offer cogent insights into such broad topics as cross-culturalism, pain and redemption, philosophical paradox, and comparative studies of the "Mysterious Stranger" manuscripts. All of these essays attest to the importance of this late work in Twain's canon, whether considering how Twain's efforts at truth-telling are premeditated and shaped by his own experiences, tracing the biblical and religious influences that resonate in No. 44, or exploring the text's psychological dimensions. Several address its importance as a culminating work in which Twain's seemingly disjointed story lines coalesce in meaningful, albeit not always satisfactory, ways. An afterword by Alan Gribben traces the critical history of the "Mysterious Stranger" manuscripts and the contributions of previous critics. A wide-ranging critical introduction and a comprehensive bibliography on the last century of scholarship bracket the contributions. Close inspection of this multidimensional novel shows how Twain evolved as a self-conscious thinker and humorist--and that he was a more conscious artist throughout his career than has been previously thought. Centenary Reflections deepens our understanding of one of Twain's most misunderstood texts, confirming that the author of No. 44 was a pursuer of an elusive truth that was often as mysterious a stranger as Twain himself.
Author : Paul Bowden
Publisher : Paul Bowden
ISBN 13 : 1461095611
Total Pages : 699 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Telling It Like It Is written by Paul Bowden and published by Paul Bowden. This book was released on 2011-05-13 with total page 699 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Telling It Like It Is' is a collection of quotations that either give good advice or are useful truths. Of course there will be quotations that you disagree with or don't identify with, but with about 700 pages how could it be otherwise! Taken as a whole though, the book tries to present a coherent view of life that has honesty and integrity and is true. Ultimately, however, you must decide for yourself whether each quote strikes a chord with you and whether all the quotes taken together present a picture of human affairs and behavior that you recognize and agree with. Whatever your final opinion, you will find this collection of quotations both fascinating and provocative.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486123316
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Mark Twain at Your Fingertips written by Mark Twain and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathered from Twain's classic novels, diary entries, newspaper articles, and correspondence, this collection of wry quips and quotes offers the great humorist and storyteller's observations on animals, critics, politics, youth, and more.
Author : Terence M. Dorn Ph.D.
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1662447957
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Quotes: The Famous and Not so Famous written by Terence M. Dorn Ph.D. and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-11-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The accumulation of the following quotes began when I served the Army chief of staff as a speechwriter and is a result of encouragement that my father provided to me every day of our lives together. This is a very small slice of the wisdom of the ages uttered by the more famous and not-so-famous people of their respective time periods. Much of that wisdom uttered decades and even hundreds of years ago are still as relevant today as they were when they were uttered. The times may change, but people don’t.
Author : Matthew Kaiser
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350187801
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Empire written by Matthew Kaiser and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together contributions from scholars in a range of fields within 19th- and 20th-century cultural, literary, and theater studies, this volume provides a thorough and varied overview of the many forms comedy took in the 19th century. Given the earth-shattering cultural changes and political events that mark the decades between 1800 and 1920-shifting borders, socioeconomic upheaval, scientific and technological innovation, the rise of consumerism and mass culture, unprecedented overseas expansion by European and American imperial powers-it is no wonder that people in the Age of Empire turned to comedy in order to make sense of the contradictions that structure modern identity and navigate the sociocultural fault lines within modern life. Comical, humorous, and satirical cultural artifacts from the period capture the anxieties and aspirations, the petty resentments and lofty ideals, of a world buffeted by change. This volume explores the aesthetic, political, and ethical dimensions of comedy in the context of blackface minstrelsy, nonsense poetry, music hall and pantomime, comic almanacs and joke books, journalism, silent film, popular novels, and hygiene magazines, among other phenomena. It also provides a detailed account of contentious debates among social Darwinists, psychoanalysts, and political philosophers about the meaning and significance of comedy and laughter to human life. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: form, theory, praxis, identity, the body, politics and power, laughter, and ethics. These eight divergent approaches to comedy in the Age of Empire add up to an extensive, synoptic coverage of the subject.
Author : Mike Buchanan
Publisher : LPS publishing
ISBN 13 : 095716887X
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (571 download)
Download or read book Feminism: The Ugly Truth written by Mike Buchanan and published by LPS publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-21 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extracts from Erin Pizzey's Foreword: ‘Mike Buchanan is a very brave man. I've known other men who've tried to draw the public's attention to the damage done by the radical feminist movement. Many lost their jobs and none of them were able to find a publisher for their books. Men have been thrown out of their own houses and unjustly accused of domestic violence towards their partners, and some of sexually abusing their children. The legitimate interests of men in Western society are being systematically assaulted by radical feminists and this book goes a long way to providing the evidence. Men are starting to campaign more effectively for their interests, though they have a long way to go before they halt the tide of radical feminist influence, let alone start to reverse it. Feminists can also expect more challenging from another quarter. An increasing number of women are summoning up the courage to openly criticise them. This shouldn't surprise us, given that the vast majority of women don't share the radical feminists' political ideology. With every year that passes more women become aware of the damage man-hating and family-hating radical feminists wreak on society in general, and women's interests in particular. These women are becoming more vocal, and their number is on the rise... How much more damage will feminists be allowed to wreak before they're more widely recognised as the evil women they are?' This book provides long-awaited answers to over 50 of the most challenging questions in the modern era including: 1. Are you a misogynist if you only hate feminists? 2. What is feminism in the modern era? 3. How do radical feminists view the world? 4. Are feminists less intelligent than normal women? 5. Are feminists less attractive than normal women? 6. Do feminists suffer from PPS (Permanent Premenstrual Syndrome)? 7. Why do feminists deny the different natures of men and women? 8. Why must taxpayers stop financing Women's Studies and Gender Studies courses? 9. What are the big fat feminist fantasies, lies, delusions and myths? 10. Are feminists delusional? Is the pope a Catholic? Do bears crap in woods? 11. How are feminists killing men and women? 12. Are some feminists (e.g. Tracey Emin) a pain in the arts? The book contains an appendix of quotations and ends with a sample chapter titled ‘Would you like to have sex with my wife?' from Mike Buchanan's international bestseller ‘Two Men in a Car (a businessman, a chauffeur, and their holidays in France)'. It also contains the plate section from the book (16 photographs).
Author : Lottie Jackson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1529151104
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (291 download)
Download or read book See Me Rolling written by Lottie Jackson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderfully witty and fiercely passionate memoir on living with a disability, and how we can redefine what it means to be disabled. ________________________________ 'Jackson's frank, fearless and sometimes hilarious book deserves to be read as widely as possible.' Daily Express 'I am blown away . . . Beautifully written, funny and such an important call to action.' Venetia La Manna 'I loved, loved, loved this book. A profound, heartfelt and eye-opening look into the way people with disabilities are treated, with the power of championing change and inclusion for all.' Charli Howard ____________________________________________ In this heartfelt, thought-provoking and often hilarious book, Lottie Jackson reflects on her experiences of living with disability: from the pitfalls of going shopping on a mobility scooter, and the headache of defining oneself on a tick-box form, to a slapstick scuffle with the so-called 'easy-pull' tights aid, and the intense pleasure of finally swapping a hospital gown for a slinky dress. Lottie captivatingly expresses the raw vulnerabilities, injustices and untold joys of disability, as well as the bizarre everyday occurrences that able-bodied people usually don't experience. Lottie powerfully explores the ways in which we undervalue and underrepresent disabled people in our society, and demonstrates how negative stigmas about 'abnormal' bodies seep into all aspects our lives. In this dazzling debut, Lottie reveals why we must strive for change and redefine what it means to be disabled in every facet of life.
Author : Rick Meyerowitz
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683357671
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead written by Rick Meyerowitz and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprints and reminiscences from the magazine’s first decade: “Fun to flip through . . . Where would American humor be without the National Lampoon?”—The New Yorker From its first issue in April 1970, the National Lampoon blazed like a comet, defining comedy as we know it today. To create Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, former Lampoon illustrator Rick Meyerowitz selected the funniest material from the magazine and sought out the survivors of its first electrifying decade to gather their most revealing and outrageous stories. The result is a mind-boggling tour through the early days of an institution whose alumni left their fingerprints all over popular culture: Animal House, Caddyshack, Saturday Night Live, Ghostbusters, SCTV, Spinal Tap, In Living Color, Ren & Stimpy, The Simpsons—even Sesame Street counts a few Lampooners among its ranks. This is the story of a band of young talents who “irrevocably rewrote the landscape of American humor” (Publishers Weekly). “A vivid picture of a tight-knit family of twentysomething humorists at the dawn of their careers.” —Newsweek "The other night I started laughing so hard I had to leave the room . . . And then I realized that I hadn’t laughed so hard in 35 years, since I was a teenager, reading National Lampoon.” —The Wall Street Journal “If you grew up with the Lampoon, this book is a trip down memory lane like no other; if not, it will demonstrate that the much maligned 70s could produce humor that has never been surpassed.” —Vanity Fair
Author : Mike Dodd
Publisher : Michael Dodd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book One Small Step written by Mike Dodd and published by Michael Dodd. This book was released on with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To those troubled one small step seems like an enormous leap. During difficult times I was encouraged to take small steps through quotations from many sources, some biblical, some from well known public figures, others anonymous. One Small Step began as a personal project to move simple thoughts out of my mind by putting them down on paper. Thoughts stem from quotations that have had an impact in my life. I wish to say in a simple sentence how I perceive them. For many this would be an easy task, but I struggle with English, words don’t flow, they get stuck, they don’t say what I want them to say and often come out sounding rather simple. As a child I struggled with English, I’m pretty sure it was dyslexia (but it didn’t exist in my day). I consequently failed English ‘O’ level at school. Quotations share pages with my photographs. On most pages I attempt to loosely link an image to one of the quotations on the page to aid memory. I spent twenty-five years working overseas. Images stem from the enchanting chaos of Bangkok to the wonderful serenity of the African safari. Quotations are from times past and include Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, Mark Twain and Theodore Roosevelt. Some are Latin Proverbs. Many are from Scripture. The book has a quotation and brief reflection for every day of the year to stimulate reaffirming thoughts at the beginning or end of each day. Alternatively, each month has a different theme to help the reader find quotations for a particular area of concern. Interestingly, old quotations reflect modern life and show today’s struggles are nothing new. These quotations serve as a collective reminder to words we often hear, but which tend to go in one ear and out the other. This book was originally written for my own enjoyment - but, I hope the collective wisdom guides your thoughts and helps you through your difficult time.
Author : Kevin Young
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1642588148
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (425 download)
Download or read book Diary of a...Madman? written by Kevin Young and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-10-19 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, you are confronted by people, situations, and obstacles that literally wear you down. You are bombarded by so many distractions that you have lost sight of what it means to be a Christian. The "busyness" of life has managed to superficially fill a void within you. Is it possible to regain understanding of how you should truly be living? Could simply altering your perception of the world bring you to a more mature state of understanding? Is it possible to release the hold that evil has on you? In Diary of a... Madman?, you will be introduced to a philosophical perspective of living. You will gain an understanding as to why life can be so tough. You will learn how your perceptions can be misguided. You will learn how to identify the barriers that are holding you back from making the most of your spiritual journey. You will be reminded of just how special we are as creations of God and can even break the grip that evil holds on us. For correspondence, please contact [email protected].
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494241667
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (416 download)
Download or read book The Mysterious Stranger written by Mark Twain and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain The Mysterious Stranger is the final novel attempted by the American author Mark Twain. He worked on it periodically from 1897 through 1908. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of the Moral Sense and the "damned human race." Twain wrote multiple versions of the story; each is unfinished and involves the character of "Satan." "St. Petersburg Fragment" Twain wrote the "St. Petersburg Fragment" in September 1897. It was set in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, a name Twain often used for Hannibal, Missouri. The Chronicle of Young Satan The first substantial version is commonly referred to as The Chronicle of Young Satan and relates the adventures of Satan, the sinless nephew of the biblical Satan, in Eseldorf, an Austrian village in the Middle Ages (year 1702). The story ends abruptly in the middle of a scene involving Satan' entertaining a prince in India. Twain wrote this version between November 1897 and September 1900. "Eseldorf" is German for "assville" or "donkeytown." Schoolhouse Hill The second substantial version Twain attempted to write is known as Schoolhouse Hill. It is set in the US and involves the familiar characters Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer and their adventures with Satan, referred to in this version as "No. 44, New Series 864962." Schoolhouse Hill is the shortest of the three versions. Twain began writing it in November 1898 and, like the "St. Petersburg Fragment," set it in the fictional town of St. Petersburg.
Author : Roald Dijkstra
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027257469
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Humour in the Beginning written by Roald Dijkstra and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2022-10-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humour in the Beginning presents a multidisciplinary collection of fourteen in-depth case-studies on the role of humour – both benign and blasphemous, elitist and ordinary, orthodox and heterodox – in early, formative stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and (late-antique) Judaism. Its coherence is strengthened by four preceding theoretical essays, many cross-references and a conclusion. Thus, the volume allows for a methodologically sound comparison and explanation of historical views on humour in the world’s most important religions. At first sight, the foundational period of religions do not seem to offer much opportunities for humour. A closer look on primary sources, however, reveals the ways in which people formulated answers to existing ideas on humour and laughter, in moments of religious renewal. Main topics include the incongruous nature of the divine, the role of anthropomorphism, superior and didactic humour, moderate laughter, responses from dissenters and the gap between religious regulations and reality.
Author : Trung Nguyen
Publisher : EnCognitive.com
ISBN 13 : 0981107109
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (811 download)
Download or read book Naturalopy Precept 11: Happiness written by Trung Nguyen and published by EnCognitive.com. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. The condition for happiness exists when our needs exceed our wants. Many people are unhappy because they live according to standards set by popular culture, when they should be listening to their inner voice...
