Earnest Earnest

Author : Eleanor Boudreau
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780822987895

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Earnest, Earnest? by Eleanor Boudreau Pdf

Winner, Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Finalist, 2021 Eric Hoffer Award Silver Medal, 2020 Florida Book Award In Earnest, Earnest?, the speaker, Eleanor, writes postcards to her on-again-off-again lover, Earnest. The fact that her lover’s name is Earnest and that their relationship is fraught, raises questions of sincerity and irony, and whether both can be present at the same time. While Earnest can be read literally as Eleanor’s lover, he is best understood as another side of the poet’s self. The ambiguity at play in Earnest, Earnest? is embodied in the form of the “Earnest Postcards” that structure the book—these postcards are experimental in their use of images and formal in their dialogue with the sonnet. Thus, Earnest, Earnest? is a question of tone, address, and form.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : First Avenue Editions ™
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781467756549

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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Jack Worthing gets antsy living at his country estate. As an excuse, he spins tales of his rowdy brother Earnest living in London. When Jack rushes to the city to confront his "brother," he's free to become Earnest and live a different lifestyle. In London, his best friend, Algernon, begins to suspect Earnest is leading a double life. Earnest confesses that his real name is Jack and admits the ruse has become tricky as two women have become enchanted with the idea of marrying Earnest. On a whim, Algernon also pretends to be Earnest and encounters the two women as they meet at the estate. With two Earnests who aren't really earnest and two women in love with little more than a name, this play is a classic comedy of errors. This is an unabridged version of Oscar Wilde's English play, first published in 1899.

Author : Carl Lindahl
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature
ISBN : 025332503X

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Earnest Games by Carl Lindahl Pdf

In Ernest Games Carl Lindahl recovers a folkloric world long hidden from readers of Chaucer. Lindahl is the first critic to demonstrate how the poem reflects the social and artistic patterns of medieval folk performance. Combining current approaches from the fields of literary criticism, social history, and folklore, Earnest Games begins with a study of Chaucer's setting and characters. Lindahl discovers that Chaucer gives each community -- the gentils, the churls, and the pilgrims -- a game strategy that faithfully reflects the social realities of the English Middle Ages.

Author : Molly Horan
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780358566236

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Epically Earnest by Molly Horan Pdf

In this delightfully romantic LGBTQ+ comedy-of-errors inspired by Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, a high school senior works up the courage to ask her long-time crush to prom all while deciding if she should look for her bio family.

Author : William David Upshaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UGA:32108005976330

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"Earnest Willie," by William David Upshaw Pdf

Author : Wallace Chafe
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789027292971

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The Importance of Not Being Earnest by Wallace Chafe Pdf

The thesis of this book is that neither laughter nor humor can be understood apart from the feeling that underlies them. This feeling is a mental state in which people exclude some situation from their knowledge of how the world really is, thereby inhibiting seriousness where seriousness would be counterproductive. Laughter is viewed as an expression of this feeling, and humor as a set of devices designed to trigger it because it is so pleasant and distracting. Beginning with phonetic analyses of laughter, the book examines ways in which the feeling behind the laughter is elicited by both humorous and nonhumorous situations. It discusses properties of this feeling that justify its inclusion in the repertoire of human emotions. Against this background it illustrates the creation of humor in several folklore genres and across several cultures. Finally, it reconciles this understanding with various already familiar ways of explaining humor and laughter.

Author : William Law
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725204522

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An Earnest and Serious Answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse; An Appeal to all who Doubt the Truths of the Gospel, Volume 6 by William Law Pdf

Author : Danny Gregory
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781440320255

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An Illustrated Journey by Danny Gregory Pdf

Features selections from the sketchbooks of forty artists, illustrators, and designers that capture their travels around the world in drawings and paintings.

Author : Nathan Altshiller-Court
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486449685

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Mathematics in Fun and in Earnest by Nathan Altshiller-Court Pdf

A world-renowned mathematician takes a lighthearted look at the philosophy, form, and re-creations of mathematics, discussing the science's charm as well as its utility and historical role. 1958 edition.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0225659026

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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Author : Jesse Murry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Art
ISBN : 1940190304

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Painting Is a Supreme Fiction: Writings by Jesse Murry, 1980-1993 by Jesse Murry Pdf

"Painting is a Supreme Fiction presents the writings of artist and poet Jesse Murry (1948-1993), an original mind who sought to unite the histories of Romantic landscape painting with the realities of Black experience"--

Author : P. D. James
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307417572

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Time to Be in Earnest by P. D. James Pdf

In 1997, P. D. James, the much loved and internationally acclaimed author of mysteries, turned seventy-seven. Taking to heart Dr. Johnson's advice that at seventy-seven it is "time to be in earnest," she decided to undertake a book unlike any she had written before: a personal memoir in the form of a diary. This enchanting and highly original volume is the result. Structured as the diary of a single year, it roams back and forth through time, illuminating James's extraordinary, sometimes painful and sometimes joyful life. Here, interwoven with reflections on her writing career and the craft of crime novels, are vivid accounts of episodes in her own past — of school days in 1920s and 1930s Cambridge . . . of the war and the tragedy of her husband's madness . . . of her determined struggle to support a family alone. She tells about the birth of her second daughter in the midst of a German buzz-bomb attack; about becoming a civil servant (and laying the groundwork for her writing career by working in the criminal justice system); about her years of public service on such bodies as the Arts Council and the BBC's Board of Governors, culminating in entry to the House of Lords. Along the way, with warmth and authority, she offers views on everything from author tours to the problems of television adaptations, from book reviewing to her obsession with Jane Austen. Written with exceptional grace, this "fragment of autobiography" has already been received with enthusiasm by British reviewers and readers. The thousands of Americans who have enjoyed P. D. James's novels will be equally charmed. Diary or memoir or both, Time to Be in Earnest is a delight.

Author : Ernest R. Norling
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486130002

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Perspective Made Easy by Ernest R. Norling Pdf

Perspective is easy; yet, surprisingly few artists know the simple rules that make it so. Remedy that situation with this simple, step-by-step book, the first devoted entirely to the topic. 256 illustrations.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781101560150

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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde Pdf

A universal favorite, The Importance of Being Earnest displays Oscar Wilde’s wit and theatrical genius at their brilliant best. Subtitled “A Trivial Comedy for Serious People,” this hilarious attack on Victorian manners and morals turns a pompous world on its head, lets duplicity lead to happiness, and makes riposte the highest form of art. Written, according to Wilde, “by a butterfly for butterflies,” it is a dazzling masterpiece of comic entertainment. Although it was originally written in four acts, The Importance of Being Earnest is usually performed in a three-act version. This authoritative edition features an appendix that restores valuable lines that appeared in the original. Also included in this special collection are Wilde’s first comedy success, Lady Windermere’s Fan, and his richly sensual melodrama, Salomé, which he called “that terrible coloured little tragedy I once in some strange mood wrote”—and which shocked and enraged the censors of his time. Includes an Introduction by Sylvan Barnet and an Afterword by Elise Bruhl and Michael Gamer

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547393801

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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde Pdf

The Importance of Being Earnest is the final play of Oscar Wilde, and it is considered his masterpiece. The play is a farcical comedy with the theme of switched identities: the play's two protagonists engage in "bunburying" (the maintenance of alternative personas in the town and country) which allows them to escape Victorian social mores. Working within the social conventions of late Victorian London, the play's major motives are the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways.