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Wisecracks

Author : David Shoemaker
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226832988
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Wisecracks written by David Shoemaker and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Humor enriches our lives, but it can also raise moral trouble. Is humor that relies on deception, maliciousness, or stereotyping always immoral? Does motive matter in determining the moral value of a joke? Why are certain topics out of bounds for humor? In Wisecracks, philosopher David Shoemaker delves into the fascinating relationship between humor and morality in our everyday lives. In this book, Shoemaker sets aside the crafted forms of humor we find in comedy specials, TV skits, and more and focuses on the informal, improvised wit that occurs in interpersonal relationships-such as teasing, mockery, and pranks-known as wisecracks. The key difference between wisecracks and jokes? Jokes are told, whereas wisecracks are made. Sometimes wisecracks involve lying, sometimes they are mean, and sometimes they play on racial or sexual stereotypes. Shoemaker untangles the intricate threads of when and why these immoral qualities are or aren't acceptable in humor. In showing how a well-developed sense of morality is central to a good sense of humor (and how to develop each), Wisecracks makes the case for how humor can heal, even when it takes a hurtful form"--

Wisecracks

Author : Tom Burns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780764158483
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book Wisecracks written by Tom Burns and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humorous animal photos are captioned with witty one-liners that touch on virtually every aspect of our lives. The threefold purpose of this clever little gift book is to provoke a smile, remind the reader of typical human foibles, and inspire readers to recognize something of themselves in the humorous phrases. For instance, a typical photo shows a family of lazy walruses lounging at the seashore, and the accompanying caption reads: ï¿1/2Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it, I wash my mouth out with chocolate.ï¿1/2 Close-up, black-and-white photos appear on every two-page spread, and each cleverly-captioned picture reminds us that animals and human beings have more in common than we sometimes like to admit.

The Book of Wisecracks

Author : Gerald Mann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780964727212
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Wisecracks written by Gerald Mann and published by . This book was released on 1998-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wisecracks

Author : Rosemarie Jarski
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Wisecracks written by Rosemarie Jarski and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1999 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Hollywood did not invent the wisecrack, moviemakers, screenwriters, and actors have crafted pinpoint put-downs and split-second come-ons into an art form. This thematically arranged (and thoroughly indexed) collection of classic, comic one-liners features hundreds of celluloid icons, including Mae West, W. C. Fields, and Groucho Marx. Encompassing all film genres from frothy musicals to hard-boiled noir, run-of-DeMille epics to Looney Tunes cartoons, Wisecracks features the finest of classic film comebacks that are guaranteed to delight every film fan.

Abe Martin's Wisecracks

Author : Kin Hubbard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Abe Martin's Wisecracks written by Kin Hubbard and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wit & Wisecracks

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781014945471
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Wit & Wisecracks written by Mark Twain and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 72 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 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. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Hitler's RAF Collaborators

Author : M.S. Morgan
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 1399039563
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Hitler's RAF Collaborators written by M.S. Morgan and published by Air World. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delves into the controversial actions of British prisoners of war during World War II, exploring cases of alleged betrayal, collaboration, and espionage. During the Second World War over 200,000 British prisoners of war were detained by the Third Reich. A large proportion of these PoWs were members of the Royal Air Force, or airmen who served in it. A number of them have been immortalised in the many books and movies that have portrayed their valiant exploits and escapes, none more so than the events surrounding the Great Escape in 1944. The names of camps such as Stalag Luft III, at Sagan, and Colditz Castle are well known to the general public, the prisoners incarcerated there often being held in high regard. But there were a few PoWs whose loyalty to the cause and their fellow prisoners might not have been as strong. The names of Pilot Officer Railton Freeman, Sergeant Jack Alcock and Sergeant Raymond Hughes are among those found in that inglorious group of alleged traitors, for all three men betrayed their colleagues and the nation. The trio assisted the Nazi regime in making radio broadcasts, or even joining the British Frei Korps, a unit of the dreaded SS. One gave information about the Monica radar system to the Luftwaffe, and others got fellow prisoners to divulge information on fake Red Cross forms. Other prisoners such as Flight Lieutenant Julius Zuromski and Squadron Leader Robert George Carpenter also came under suspicion when reports began to arrive at MI9 in London. Enquiries were subsequently undertaken by the RAF Special Investigation Branch and MI5 – investigations that would ultimately lead to the imprisonment of some and the release of others. What these men did and why some were prosecuted, and others were released without charge, is examined by the author. Why one man in particular, an ardent Nazi and traitor, was not sentenced to death, having liaised with the likes of the infamous William Joyce, also known as ‘Lord Haw Haw’, and even Josef Goebbels, is a mystery to this day. Sadly, not all our aviators were heroes. But there has long been debate that some of them might have actually been working for the Security Services. So, were these men traitors who collaborated with Hitler’s Third Reich, or agents working for the British State?

Wise Up

Author : Karen Duffy
Publisher : Seal Press
ISBN 13 : 1541620488
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Wise Up written by Karen Duffy and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestselling author shares wryly funny and heartwarming lessons on life, motherhood, and python attacks. Named one of Oprah Daily’s 50 Most Anticipated Books of 2022 From becoming an iconic MTV VJ to starring in Dumb and Dumber to being diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, Karen Duffy has been through a lot. But it was only when she became a mother that she realized she had some pretty solid life lessons to pass down. In her new book, she offers advice on building a friend group that is weasel free, finding the love of your life, and determining how much to tip the waiter (as with everything—be generous!). With dry humor and maternal warmth, she shows how we all can learn from unexpected philosophers, even from Bulgarian dancing bears. There are times in life when we should turn to the wisdom of great thinkers. And there are times when you need the kind of enlightenment that only a former Coney Island Mermaid Queen can give. Wise Up offers wisecracks—and some profound insights—in a unique book of parental inspiration.

The Legacy of the Wisecrack

Author : Eddie Tafoya
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1599424959
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book The Legacy of the Wisecrack written by Eddie Tafoya and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the claim of many a Borscht Belt comic that he is a practitioner of "the world's second-oldest professsion," stand-up comedy is a young and distinctly American literary form. It was not until the last decades of the nineteenth century when, enabled by unprecedented prosperity and the right to free expression, that monologists began appearing in American vaudeville halls. Yet even though it has since become an entertainment industry mainstay, stand-up comedy has received precious little scholarly attention. The Legacy of the Wisecrack: Stand-up Comedy as the Great American Literary Form looks at the theory of stand-up comedy, its literary dimensions, and its distinctly American qualities as it provides a detailed history of the forces that shaped it. The study concludes with a look at the works of specific comedians such as Steven Wright, whose three decades of performances comprise a single picaresque tale, and Richard Pryor, whose 1982 masterpiece Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip serves as modern America's answer to Dante Aligheri's epic poem, Inferno. The result is one of the first serious treatments of stand-up comedy as a literary form.

Jerusalem

Author : Alan Moore
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631491350
Total Pages : 1954 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Jerusalem written by Alan Moore and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 1954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, the Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal Winner of the Audie Award The New York Times bestseller from the author of Watchmen and V for Vendetta finally appears in a one-volume paperback. Begging comparisons to Tolstoy and Joyce, this “magnificent, sprawling cosmic epic” (Guardian) by Alan Moore—the genre-defying, “groundbreaking, hairy genius of our generation” (NPR)—takes its place among the most notable works of contemporary English literature. In decaying Northampton, eternity loiters between housing projects. Among saints, kings, prostitutes, and derelicts, a timeline unravels: second-century fiends wait in urine-scented stairwells, delinquent specters undermine a century with tunnels, and in upstairs parlors, laborers with golden blood reduce fate to a snooker tournament. Through the labyrinthine streets and pages of Jerusalem tread ghosts singing hymns of wealth and poverty. They celebrate the English language, challenge mortality post-Einstein, and insist upon their slum as Blake’s eternal holy city in “Moore’s apotheosis, a fourth-dimensional symphony” (Entertainment Weekly). This “brilliant . . . monumentally ambitious” tale from the gutter is “a massive literary achievement for our time—and maybe for all times simultaneously” (Washington Post).

Movies as Literature

Author : Kathryn Stout
Publisher : Design-A-Study
ISBN 13 : 1891975099
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (919 download)

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Download or read book Movies as Literature written by Kathryn Stout and published by Design-A-Study. This book was released on 2002 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This complete, one-year high school English course uses classic movies on video to introduce and study the elements of literary analysis. Student discussion and composition questions are provided for each of 17 lessons, several of which can also be used to supplement studies in grades 7 and 8. Also included are an extensive teacher s guide/answer key, plot summaries, glossary of literary terms, and final exam. This course will not only give students the tools to appreciate good books more fully, but will equip them with the ability to discern underlying messages in movies rather than simply absorb them. The following 17 movies are covered by Movies As Literature: Shane, Friendly Persuasion, The Quiet Man, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Music Man, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Maltese Falcon, Rear Window, Emma, The Philadelphia Story, The Journey of August King, To Kill A Mockingbird, A Raisin in the Sun, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Henry V, A Man For All Seasons, and Chariots of Fire."

Action, Detection and Shane Black

Author : Nils Bothmann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3658240784
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Action, Detection and Shane Black written by Nils Bothmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-11 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nils Bothmann applies antiessentialist genre theory to study the fusion of the action and the detection genre in the hybrid genre of detAction, focusing on the work of screenwriter and director Shane Black. After providing antiessentialist definitions of all three genres, the author undertakes close readings of Black’s work in order to analyze depictions of race and gender as well as the role of intermediality and genre hybridity in detAction.

The Engineer of Human Souls

Author : Josef Škvorecký
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
ISBN 13 : 9781564781994
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book The Engineer of Human Souls written by Josef Škvorecký and published by Dalkey Archive Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "So entertaining that it would be dangerous to read it without laughing aloud." Los Angeles Times Book Review

New Hard-boiled Writers, 1970s-1990s

Author : LeRoy Panek
Publisher : Popular Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879728205
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (282 download)

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Download or read book New Hard-boiled Writers, 1970s-1990s written by LeRoy Panek and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With an eye toward the origins and development of the hard-boiled story, LeRoy Lad Panek comments both on the way it has changed over the past three decades and examines the work of ten significant contemporary hardboiled writers. Chapters show how the new writers have used the hard-boiled story and the hard-boiled hero to make powerful statements about reality in the last quarter of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

"Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words"

Author : Wolfgang Mieder
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9781433103780
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book "Proverbs Speak Louder Than Words" written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents a composite picture of the richness of proverbs as significant expressions of folk wisdom as is manifest from their appearance in art, culture, folklore, history, literature, and the mass media. The book draws attention to the fact that proverbs as metaphorical signs continue to play an important role in oral and written communication. Proverbs as so-called monumenta humana are omnipresent in all facets of life, and while they are neither sacrosanct nor saccharine, they usually offer much common sense or wisdom based on recurrent experiences and observations."--BOOK JACKET.

Mind Full

Author : Dermot Whelan
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN 13 : 071719180X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Mind Full written by Dermot Whelan and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2021-04-16 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007, comedian and broadcaster Dermot Whelan arrived at a comedy festival in an ambulance after having a panic attack en route. Realising this was not a sustainable way to travel to future gigs, he decided to become a meditation teacher and learn how to de-stress without annoying the emergency services. Telling Dermot's own story and offering useful everyday tips and techniques, Mind Full is his funny and accessible guide to meditation. If you feel like you've lost touch with the happier version of yourself and would like to: SLEEP BETTER REDUCE STRESS, ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION HAVE MORE PATIENCE WITH THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE FEEL LESS 'MEH' ENJOY LIFE MORE ... this book is for you. You'll discover that learning to meditate doesn't require you to blow up your life and move to Nepal, but it does help you make very small changes that make a long-lasting difference. With exclusive access to Dermot's guided meditations, Mind Full will help you restore your sense of fulfilment, happiness and true contentment. 'Fixed whatever block I had harboured towards the concept of meditation ... I had convinced myself that I wasn't one of those people. Now I realise there is no prerequisite character type. It's just for ... people. A lovely, funny, honest book.' Cillian Murphy, From The Foreword

Crime Fiction from a Professional Eye

Author : Lili Pâquet
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476634033
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Crime Fiction from a Professional Eye written by Lili Pâquet and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-08-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a new category of authors blurring the line between fiction and nonfiction: women who work or have worked in criminal justice--lawyers, police officers and forensic investigators--who publish crime fiction with characters that resemble real-life counterparts. Drawing on their professional experience, these writers present compelling portrayals of inequality and dysfunction in criminal justice systems from a feminist viewpoint. This book presents the first examination of the true-crime-infused fiction of authors like Dorothy Uhnak, Kathy Reichs and Linda Fairstein.