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Author : Steven H. Gale
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English wit and humor
ISBN : 0824059905
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Steven H. Gale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1307 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English wit and humor
ISBN : LCCN:95002282
Author : Steven H. Gale
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1307 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English wit and humor
ISBN : LCCN:95002282
Author : Book Builders LLC.
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 9781438108698
Presents a two-volume A to Z reference on English authors from the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, providing information about major figures, key schools and genres, biographical information, author publications and some critical analyses.
Author : Mark Bryant
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781000599404
British cartoonists and caricaturists are renowned worldwide. Originally published in 2000, this indispensable handbook offers a unique ‘who’s who’ of all the major artists working in Britain in the twentieth century and contains nearly 500 entries. Extensively illustrated, the book provides information on the work of artists such as Steve Bell, Gerald Scarfe, Posy Simmonds, Ronald Searle, Trog, mac and Larry as well as such past masters as David Low, Vicky, H. M. Bateman, Illingworth, Heath Robinson and more. The dictionary concentrates primarily on political cartoonists, caricaturists and joke or ‘gag’ cartoonists, actively working for the main Fleet Street national dailies and weeklies from 1900 to 1995. Each entry is cross-referenced and provides a concise biographical outline with an account of the artist’s style, influences and preferred medium. Where relevant the entry includes suggestions for further reading and notes solo exhibitions, books illustrated and works held in public collections. The Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Cartoonists and Caricaturists offers an insight into the lives of satirical artists working during a century that provoked cartoonists and caricaturists to a pitch of comic and artistic invention that has rarely been matched.
Author : Tracy Chevalier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1032 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135314101
This groundbreaking new source of international scope defines the essay as nonfictional prose texts of between one and 50 pages in length. The more than 500 entries by 275 contributors include entries on nationalities, various categories of essays such as generic (such as sermons, aphorisms), individual major works, notable writers, and periodicals that created a market for essays, and particularly famous or significant essays. The preface details the historical development of the essay, and the alphabetically arranged entries usually include biographical sketch, nationality, era, selected writings list, additional readings, and anthologies
Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1141 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136787447
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Jo A. Cates
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780313058844
Journalism: A Guide to the Reference Literature is a critically annotated bibliographic guide to print and electronic sources in print and broadcast journalism. The first edition was published in 1990; the second in 1997. It has been described as one of the critical reference sources in journalism today, and it is a key bibliographic guide to the literature. Choice magazine called it a benchmark publication for which there are no comparable sources. The format is similar to the second edition. What makes this edition significantly different is the separation of Commercial Databases and Internet Resources. Commercial Databases includes standard fee-based resources. The new chapter on Internet sources features Web-based resources not included in the commercial databases chapter as well as portals, other online files, listservs, newsgroups, and Web logs/blogs. All chapters have been revised, and there are significant revisions in Directories, Yearbooks, and Collections; Miscellaneous Sources; Core Periodicals; Societies and Associations; and Research Centers and Archives. The second edition has 789 entries. The third edition contains almost 1,000 entries. James Carey of Columbia University, who provided the foreword for the first two editions, has updated his foreword for this edition.
Author : Don Lee Fred Nilsen
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998-05-30
Category : Humor
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020174830
During the 18th and 19th centuries in Britain there was a wide range of literary humor. Much of this humor was satiric, ranging from the sharp barbs of Pope and Swift to the more subtle but stinging wordplay of Addison. In the 18th century, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, and Sterne wrote humorous novels, in which they criticized society. The period was largely dominated by satire, in which the dunce was a common figure. There was a proliferation of satires in prose and verse, along with satiric operas, pamphlets, and other writings. During the 19th century, writers such as Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, and Carlyle continued to use humor to comment on the issues of their day, though their writings were often far more gentle than those of their predecessors. This reference book is a comprehensive guide to how British writers of the 18th and 19th centuries used humor in their works. An introductory chapter overviews humor in British literature of the era. The sections that follow then treat humor in British literature of the 18th century and of the early, middle, and later 19th century. Each of these sections includes a short introduction, followed by chronologically arranged profiles of various authors. Each profile discusses how the author used humor and includes extensive bibliographic information. A thorough index allows the reader to access information alphabetically, while the chronological arrangement of the profiles shows how humor in British literature evolved over time.
Author : Steven H. Gale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781317360407
First published in 1992, this book focuses on the oeuvre of S. J. Perelman. Taken together, the essays included serve as an introduction to this important humorist’s work, both in terms of the specific short prose pieces, plays, and films examined and as an overview of his lengthy professional career. They provide insightful and in-depth literary analyses as well. The work encourages a better appreciation for Perelman’s contributions to American literary history.
Author : Steven H. Gale
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781317362272
First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.
Author : Victor Raskin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 679 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-06
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9783110198492
The book is intended to provide a definitive view of the field of humor research for both beginning and established scholars in a variety of fields who are developing an interest in humor and need to familiarize themselves with the available body of knowledge. Each chapter of the book is devoted to an important aspect of humor research or to a disciplinary approach to the field, and each is written by the leading expert or emerging scholar in that area. There are two primary motivations for the book. The positive one is to collect and summarize the impressive body of knowledge accumulated in humor research in and around Humor: The International Journal of Humor Research. The negative motivation is to prevent the embarrassment to and from the "first-timers," often established experts in their own field, who venture into humor research without any notion that there already exists a body of knowledge they need to acquire before publishing anything on the subject-unless they are in the business of reinventing the wheel and have serious doubts about its being round! The organization of the book reflects the main groups of scholars participating in the increasingly popular and high-powered humor research movement throughout the world, an 800 to 1,000-strong contingent, and growing. The chapters are organized along the same lines: History, Research Issues, Main Directions, Current Situation, Possible Future, Bibliography-and use the authors' definitive credentials not to promote an individual view, but rather to give the reader a good comprehensive and condensed view of the area.
Author : LEONARD R. N. ASHLEY
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781493186242
LIVING LANGUAGE is 25 essays on many aspects of a big subject. It is authoritative, by the long-time president of The American Society of Geolinguistics (ASG). ASG was founded in 1965 by Mario A. Pei for the study of language in action in the modern world as it affects culture, commerce, politics, personal and national identity, and indeed the whole macrosociolinguistic picture. ASG publishes the journal Geolinguistics and holds an annual international conference and it publishes the proceedings of participants from Europe, Asia, Australia, Central America, US, UK, etc. From those and other sources along with some brand new materials here is a variety of essays, presented in a familiar style, chiefly on American and British English but also English as the world’s second language, and more. This book is wide-ranging, wise, witty, opinionated, deeply researched, useful, & controversial.
Author : Anna Wing-bo Tso,Scarlett Lee
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476673981
Beginning with a brief history and evolution of the short story genre, alongside an overview of the key short story writers, and an explanatory chapter of literary criticism, this book aims to give readers insight into the works by canonical British, Irish, and American authors, including Edgar Allan Poe, James Joyce, Flannery O'Connor, and more. Applying close reading skills and critical literary approaches to twelve selected short stories in English, this work conducts comparative analyses to reveal the interrelationships between the texts, the authors, the readers, and the sociocultural contexts. Developed and tested in literature classes at university over several semesters, this book addresses key issues, topics and trends in the short story genre.
Author : Steven H. Gale
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0791449327
Examines the screenplays of the master British dramatist and screenwriter Harold Pinter.