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The Age of Irreverence

Author : Christopher Rea
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520959590
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Irreverence written by Christopher Rea and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Irreverence tells the story of why China’s entry into the modern age was not just traumatic, but uproarious. As the Qing dynasty slumped toward extinction, prominent writers compiled jokes into collections they called "histories of laughter." In the first years of the Republic, novelists, essayists and illustrators alike used humorous allegories to make veiled critiques of the new government. But, again and again, political and cultural discussion erupted into invective, as critics gleefully jeered and derided rivals in public. Farceurs drew followings in the popular press, promoting a culture of practical joking and buffoonery. Eventually, these various expressions of hilarity proved so offensive to high-brow writers that they launched a concerted campaign to transform the tone of public discourse, hoping to displace the old forms of mirth with a new one they called youmo (humor). Christopher Rea argues that this period—from the 1890s to the 1930s—transformed how Chinese people thought and talked about what is funny. Focusing on five cultural expressions of laughter—jokes, play, mockery, farce, and humor—he reveals the textures of comedy that were a part of everyday life during modern China’s first "age of irreverence." This new history of laughter not only offers an unprecedented and up-close look at a neglected facet of Chinese cultural modernity, but also reveals its lasting legacy in the Chinese language of the comic today and its implications for our understanding of humor as a part of human culture.

Irreverence

Author : Gianfranco Cecchin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042991525X
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Irreverence written by Gianfranco Cecchin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irreverence: A Strategy for Therapists' Survival marks the end result of a collaboration between three creative and highly respected therapists and writers in the family therapy field. It continues the tradition of the Milan group and later systemic thinkers by examining the way a therapist's own thinking can block the process of therapy and lead to feeling stuck. The authors define and demonstrate the use of a concept in the therapeutic field - irreverence - which allows therapists to free themselves from the limitations of their own theoretical schools of thought and the familiar hypotheses they apply to their client families. They illustrate their ideas with some very challenging family therapy cases and include an interesting consultation with the staff caring for a hospitalised patient. The book also extends the notion of irreverence beyond therapy to the fields of training and research where its application is both fresh and profound.

Pious Irreverence

Author : Dov Weiss
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081224835X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Pious Irreverence written by Dov Weiss and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judaism is often described as a religion that tolerates, even celebrates arguments with God. In Pious Irreverence, Dov Weiss has written the first scholarly study of the premodern roots of this distinctively Jewish theology of protest, examining its origins and development in the rabbinic age (70 CE-800 CE).

Infernal

Author : Bianca Scardoni
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781999387426
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Infernal written by Bianca Scardoni and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hell is empty. The Devil is here. There is no road so long and winding as the one that leads you to the finish line. Every bend is meant to test you, every junction meant to bring you closer to that place where love and sacrifice meet. To that place in the valley where the sun doesn

Borges and Translation

Author : Sergio Gabriel Waisman
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838755921
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book Borges and Translation written by Sergio Gabriel Waisman and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies how Borges constructs a theory of translation that plays a fundamental role in the development of Argentine literature, and which, in turn, expands the potential for writers in Latin America to create new and innovative literatures through processes of re-reading, rewriting, and mis-translation. The book analyzes Borges's texts in both an Argentine and a transnational context, thus incorporating Borges's ideas into contemporary debates about translation and its relationship to language and aesthetics, Latin American culture and identity, tradition and originality, and center-periphery dichotomies. Furthermore, a central objective of this book is to show that the study of the importance of translation in Borges and of the importance of Borges for translation studies need not be separated. Furthermore, translation studies has much to gain by the inclusion of Latin American thinkers such as Borges, while literary studies has much to gain by in-depth considerations of the role of translation in Latin American literatures. Sergio Waisman is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at The George Washington University.

Irreverence and the Sacred

Author : Hugh B. Urban
Publisher : Paperbackshop UK Import
ISBN 13 : 0190911964
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Irreverence and the Sacred written by Hugh B. Urban and published by Paperbackshop UK Import. This book was released on 2019 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irreverence and the Sacred brings together some of the most cutting edge, interdisciplinary, and international scholars working today in order to debate key issues in the critical and comparative study of religion. The project is inspired in large part by the work of Bruce Lincoln, whose influential and wide-ranging scholarship has consistently posed challenging, provocative, and often-irreverent questions that have really pushed the boundaries of the field of religious studies in important, sometimes controversial ways. Retracing the history of the discipline of religious studies, Lincoln argues that the field has tended to champion a "validating, feel-good" approach to religion, rather than posing more critical questions about religious claims to authority and their role in history, politics, and social change. A critical approach to the history of religions, he suggests, would focus on the human, temporal, and material aspects of phenomena that are claimed to have a superhuman, eternal, or transcendent status. This volume takes up Lincoln's challenge to "do better," by engaging in critical analyses of four key themes in the study of religion: myth, ritual, gender, and politics. The book also interrogates the "politics of scholarship" itself, critically examining the relations of power and material interests at work in the study as well as the practice of religion. The scholars involved in this project include not only some of the most important figures in the American study of religion--such as Wendy Doniger, Russell McCutcheon, Ivan Strenski, and Lincoln himself--but also European scholars whose work is hugely influential overseas but not as well known in the U.S.--such as Stefan Arvidsson, Claude Calame, Nicolas Meylan, and others.

The Age of Irreverence

Author : Christopher Rea
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520283848
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Irreverence written by Christopher Rea and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Age of Irreverence tells the story of why ChinaÕs entry into the modern age was not just traumatic, but uproarious. As the Qing dynasty slumped toward extinction, prominent writers compiled jokes into collections they called Òhistories of laughter.Ó In the first years of the Republic, novelists, essayists and illustrators alike used humorous allegories to make veiled critiques of the new government. But, again and again, political and cultural discussion erupted into invective, as critics gleefully jeered and derided rivals in public. Farceurs drew followings in the popular press, promoting a culture of practical joking and buffoonery. Eventually, these various expressions of hilarity proved so offensive to high-brow writers that they launched a concerted campaign to transform the tone of public discourse, hoping to displace the old forms of mirth with a new one they called youmo (humor). Christopher Rea argues that this periodÑfrom the 1890s to the 1930sÑtransformed how Chinese people thought and talked about what is funny. Focusing on five cultural expressions of laughterÑjokes, play, mockery, farce, and humorÑhe reveals the textures of comedy that were a part of everyday life during modern ChinaÕs first Òage of irreverence.Ó This new history of laughter not only offers an unprecedented and up-close look at a neglected facet of Chinese cultural modernity, but also reveals its lasting legacy in the Chinese language of the comic today and its implications for our understanding of humor as a part of human culture.

Summa Theologiae: Volume 40, Superstition and Irreverence

Author : Saint Thomas (Aquinas)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521029481
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Summa Theologiae: Volume 40, Superstition and Irreverence written by Saint Thomas (Aquinas) and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-26 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paperback reissue of one volume of the English Dominicans' Latin/English edition of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae.

Printer's Error

Author : J. P. Romney
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062412337
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Printer's Error written by J. P. Romney and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by television’s favorite rare-book expert from HISTORY’s hit series Pawn Stars. Since the Gutenberg Bible first went on sale in 1455, printing has been viewed as one of the highest achievements of human innovation. But the march of progress hasn’t been smooth; downright bizarre is more like it. Printer’s Error chronicles some of the strangest and most humorous episodes in the history of Western printing, and makes clear that we’ve succeeded despite ourselves. Rare-book expert Rebecca Romney and author J. P. Romney take us from monasteries and museums to auction houses and libraries to introduce curious episodes in the history of print that have had a profound impact on our world. Take, for example, the Gutenberg Bible. While the book is regarded as the first printed work in the Western world, Gutenberg’s name doesn’t appear anywhere on it. Today, Johannes Gutenberg is recognized as the father of Western printing. But for the first few hundred years after the invention of the printing press, no one knew who printed the first book. This long-standing mystery took researchers down a labyrinth of ancient archives and libraries, and unearthed surprising details, such as the fact that Gutenberg’s financier sued him, repossessed his printing equipment, and started his own printing business afterward. Eventually the first printed book was tracked to the library of Cardinal Mazarin in France, and Gutenberg’s forty-two-line Bible was finally credited to him, thus ensuring Gutenberg’s name would be remembered by middle-school students worldwide. Like the works of Sarah Vowell, John Hodgman, and Ken Jennings, Printer’s Error is a rollicking ride through the annals of time and the printed word.

Eventide

Author : Therese Bohman
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590518942
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Eventide written by Therese Bohman and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Eventide is full of damn fine writing, but it’s the novel’s irreverent attitude toward feminism that makes it necessary to read.” —Los Angeles Review of Books In her forties, childless, and living alone, Karolina Andersson feels adrift after the breakup of a long relationship. An art history professor, she finds fulfillment in her work, and when she starts advising a new postgraduate student, she is struck by his confidence. He claims to have discovered new materials from a female artist working around 1900 that could change the history of Swedish visual arts. Karolina soon finds herself embroiled in a complex game with both emotional and professional consequences. Eventide is a perceptive novel of ideas about love, art, and solitude in our time, and the distorted standards to which women are held in their relationships and careers.

Summer of Irreverence: The Rock Star

Author : Cathrine Goldstein
Publisher : The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN 13 : 1509208682
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Summer of Irreverence: The Rock Star written by Cathrine Goldstein and published by The Wild Rose Press Inc. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Straight-laced, veterinary surgeon, Summer Wynters is ready to break the rules. And who better to break them with than the most irreverent of all men, mega rock star Malcolm Angel? With one last summer free from work obligations, Summer moves to New York City, and at the coaxing of her friend, pretends to be a model so she can spend one wild night with Malcolm. Rock star, Malcolm Angel, tortured by a dark past, may be the poet laureate of romance, but he, like science-minded Summer, has never believed in romantic love. How could he? With his history, he doesn't deserve to be loved. When Summer's honesty, kindness, and exuberance for life changes his perspective, the two discover they are in deeper than either dreamed possible. But when Malcolm discovers Summer's been perpetuating a lie, will he forgive her? Even if forgiveness is possible, can a man immune to love teach someone else to believe in it?

Irreverence the Precursor of Infidelity. A tract for the present session of Parliament. As a postscript to “A Few Words on the Progress of Infidelity in London, during the spring of 1857.”

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Author : William Brudenell BARTER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Irreverence the Precursor of Infidelity. A tract for the present session of Parliament. As a postscript to “A Few Words on the Progress of Infidelity in London, during the spring of 1857.” written by William Brudenell BARTER and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Barefoot Irreverence

Author : James R. Delisle
Publisher : PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
ISBN 13 : 1882664795
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Barefoot Irreverence written by James R. Delisle and published by PRUFROCK PRESS INC.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book "Delisle tackles such crucial issues as standardized testing, differentiation, the theory of Multiple Intelligences, the social and emotional lives of gifted children, character education, and the portrayal of gifted children in the media."

Reverent Irreverence

Author : Tom Thresher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781616584450
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Reverent Irreverence written by Tom Thresher and published by . This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rev.Tom Thresher draws on his years of experience in leading his chruch to lay out some innovative approaches to comprehending Christian worship and worshipers. He shares details about Christian Fellowship activities on behalf of worshipers and the church.

Irreverent Persia

Author : Riccardo Zipoli
Publisher : Leiden University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789087282271
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Irreverent Persia written by Riccardo Zipoli and published by Leiden University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry expressing criticism of social, political and cultural life is a vital integral part of Persian literary history. Its principal genres - invective, satire and burlesque - have been very popular with authors in every age. Despite the rich uninterrupted tradition, such texts have been little studied and rarely translated. Their irreverent tones range from subtle irony to crude direct insults, at times involving the use of outrageous and obscene terms. This anthology includes both major and minor poets from the origins of Persian poetry (10th century) up to the age of Jâmi (15th century), traditionally considered the last great classical Persian poet. In addition to their historical and linguistic interest, many of these poems deserve to be read for their technical and aesthetic accomplishments, setting them among the masterpieces of Persian literature.

Rare Bird Of Fashion

Author : Eric Boman
Publisher : Thames and Hudson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Rare Bird Of Fashion written by Eric Boman and published by Thames and Hudson. This book was released on 2007-03-27 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true original: this lavishly photographed book captures the style of American fashion maverick Iris Apfel, who, over the past 40 years, has cultivated a personal chic that is exuberantly idiosyncratic.

Virtual Faith

Author : Tom Beaudoin
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
ISBN 13 : 9780787955274
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Faith written by Tom Beaudoin and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2000-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the deep and pervasive search for meaning that haunts Generation X. This book is must reading for anyone who would understand the spirituality of young people at the turn of a new millennium.--Robert A. Ludwig, author of Reconstructing Catholicism for a New Generation In Virtual Faith, Beaudoin explores fashion, music videos, and cyberspace concluding that his generation has fashioned a theology radically different from, but no less potent or valid than, that of their elders. Beaudoin's investigation of popular culture uncovers four themes that underpin his generation?s theology. First, all institutions are suspect -- especially organized religion. Second, personal experience is everything, and every form of intense personal experience is potentially spiritual. Third, suffering is also spiritual. Finally, this generation sees ambiguity as a central element of faith. This book opens a long overdue conversation about where and how we find meaning, and how we all can encourage each other in this central human searching. Tom Beaudoin earned his Master of Theological Studies from Harvard University School of Divinity in 1996 and is currently working toward a Ph.D. in Religion and Education at Boston College.