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Author : Michael Coleman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1888444045
Instead of hibernating with her parents, a young turtle decides to explore the winter world outside their shed.
Author : Mark Lamprell
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770894556
A funny, compelling novel about love, family, and the precarious business of being a man. Michael O’Dell is hit by a car. When he doesn’t die, he is surprised and pleased. But he can’t seem to move from the crash position. In fact, the accident is just the first in a series of family crises: His wife Wendy is heroically supportive, but when his daughter Rosie punches out a vindictive schoolmate, all hell breaks loose. His son Declan is found with a stash of illicit drugs. A strange policeman starts harassing the family and ordinary mishaps take on a sinister desperation. To top it all off, Michael’s professional life starts to crumble. Mark Lamprell’s extraordinary debut examines the terrible truth: sometimes you can’t pull yourself together until you’ve completely fallen apart.
Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Humor
ISBN : UOM:39015041006266
An investigation of the origins of comedy and the meaning of laughter, drawing on biology, anthropology, classical studies, behavioural science, philosophy and psychology - with a few authorial jokes along the way.
Author : Bonnie Marranca,Gautam Dasgupta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015039924785
As a theatrical form, the "ridiculous" thrived in the 1970s and early 1980s, playfully subverting dramatic and social convention in its mix of camp, role-playing, literary and cinematic allusions--and anticipating the current interest in gender, cross-dressing, and popular culture. Originally published in 1979, THEATRE OF THE RIDICULOUS (now revised and updated) was the first book to document this innovative and challenging form.
Author : Kelly I. Aliano
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781476634722
Theatre of the Ridiculous is a significant movement that highlighted the radical possibilities inherent in camp. Much of contemporary theatre owes this form a great debt but little has been written about its history or aesthetic markers. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the important practitioners, along with critical commentary of their work. Beginning with Ridiculous’ most recognizable name, Charles Ludlam, the author traces the development of this campy, queer genre, from the B movies of Maria Montez to the Pop Art scene of Andy Warhol to the founding of the Play-House of the Ridiculous and the dawn of Ludlam’s career and finally to the contemporary theatre scene.
Author : Kenneth Elliott
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781609389208
Beyond Ridiculous tells the story of Theatre-in-Limbo, a downtown band of actors formed in 1984 by director Kenneth Elliott and playwright and drag legend Charles Busch. They launched Vampire Lesbians of Sodom at the Limbo Lounge, a raffish club in the fringes of the East Village, but it would later become the longest-running non-musical in off-Broadway history. From 1984 to 1991, Busch starred in eight Limbo productions, always in outrageously fabulous drag. In Beyond Ridiculous, Elliott narrates in first-person the company’s Cinderella tale of fun, heartbreak, and dishy drama. At the center of the book is a young Charles Busch, an unforgettable personality fighting to be seen, be heard, and express his unique style as a writer-performer in plays such as Psycho Beach Party and The Lady in Question. The tragedy of AIDS among treasured friends in the company, the struggle for mainstream acceptance of LGBTQ+ theatre during the reign of President Ronald Reagan, and the exploration of new ways of being a gay theatre artist make the book a bittersweet and joyous ride.
Author : Gary Rosenshield
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804769853
This book is a study devoted to exploring the use of a Russian version of the Jewish stereotype (the ridiculous Jew) in the works of three of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century. Rosenshield does not attempt to expose the stereotype—which was self-consciously and unashamedly employed. Rather, he examines how stereotypes are used to further the very different artistic, cultural, and ideological agendas of each writer. What distinguishes this book from others is that it explores the problems that arise when an ethnic stereotype is so fully incorporated into a work of art that it takes on a life of its own, often undermining the intentions of its author as well as many of the defining elements of the stereotype itself. With each these writers, the Jewish stereotype precipitates a literary transformation, taking their work into an uncomfortable space for the author and a challenging one for readers.
Author : Shundrawn Thomas
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2006-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780768492934
Truly I say to you,I have not found such great faith with anyone in Israel (Matthew 8:10) Now here is a book that will change everything! You are about to experience so many answered prayers that your friends will insist you have ridiculous faith! Ridiculous Faith moves the search for faith beyond clichés and formulas we all have heard a thousand times to a kind of faith that will help you overcome any problem and launch you into the destiny God has for you.Writing from the perspective of a fellow traveler on the journey to greater faith, the author relates his personal experience of one who has had to learn this ridiculous faith for himself. Ridiculous Faith gives you: Tools to dig deeper into Scripture. Framework to build and strengthen your faith. Foundation on which to heighten your relationship with God. Keys to experience the abundant life that your heavenly Father has for you. The author's exposition of Scripture iswoven togetherwith personal anecdotes and insights, making it ideal for individual reflection or for use in book clubs or a classroom setting.
Author : Karen Favreau
Publisher : Cowley Publications
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781461712602
Karen Favreau is a Generation X seeker who has run the spiritual gamut. Raised Catholic, she lapsed into atheism and began a long, strange journey back to Christian faith. In Ridiculous Packaging she chronicles her trip, offering a humorous, non-preachy, and heartfelt memoir in which she attempts to decipher why a cynical, thirty-three year old atheist would open her heart and accept God's love after having spent an entire lifetime running away from him.
Author : Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Publisher : Golgotha Press
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781610427272
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man is a story by Fyodor Dostoevsky written in 1877. It chronicles the experiences of a man who decides that there is nothing to live for in the world, and is therefore determined to commit suicide. A chance encounter with a young girl changes his mind.
Author : Gregg Bordowitz
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262524599
The first collection of writings by a noted artist and activist whose work has focused on the AIDS epidemic. The HIV epidemic animates this collection of essays by a noted artist, writer, and activist. "So total was the burden of illness—mine and others'—that the only viable response, other than to cease making art entirely, was to adjust to the gravity of the predicament by using the crisis as a lens," writes Gregg Bordowitz, a film- and video-maker whose best-known works, Fast Trip Long Drop (1993) and Habit (2001), address AIDS globally and personally. In The AIDS Crisis Is Ridiculous—the title essay is inspired by Charles Ludlam, founder of the Ridiculous Theater Company—Bordowitz follows in the tradition of artist-writers Robert Smithson and Yvonne Rainer by making writing an integral part of an artistic practice. Bordowitz has left his earliest writings for the most part unchanged—to preserve, he says, "both the youthful exuberance and the palpable sense of fear" created by the early days of the AIDS crisis. After these early essays, the writing becomes more experimental, sometimes mixing fiction and fact; included here is a selection of Bordowitz's columns from the journal Documents, "New York Was Yesterday." Finally, in his newest essays he reformulates early themes, and, in "My Postmodernism" (written for Artforum's fortieth anniversary issue) and "More Operative Assumptions" (written especially for this book), he reexamines the underlying ideas of his practice and sums up his theoretical concerns. In his mature work, Bordowitz seeks to join the subjective—the experience of having a disease—and the objective—the fact of the disease as a global problem. He believes that this conjunction is necessary for understanding and fighting the crisis. "If it can be written," he says, "then it can be realized."
Author : Charles Edelman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0719035074
Paying close attention to the performance conditions in the Elizabethan theatre, Edelman (English, Edith Cowan U., Western Australia) explores how Shakespeare's many battle scenes, duels, and single combats would have been presented by his own company. He draws on the whole range of plays to argue that such scenes reinforce poetic and dramatic themes, rather than merely provide a popular spectacle for the crowd. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Arlene Corwin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781503574557
Since 2010, Arlene Corwin has published twelve books of poetry – hefty, 200 pagers all. She is a prolific writer, going from the sublime to the ridiculous, scribbling phantasmagorical ideas and working them until they have the rhythm, rhyme and development that satisfies her. When asked, she says she has no plan, aim or scheme to help her. A jazz musician and longtime yogini, she puts the thought to into free-flow, which then evolves of its own accord. Improvisation – she trusts the improvisatory.
Author : Frank Simcoe
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595301355
Depressed, out-of-work, out-of-confidence political lawyer E. Everton is walking in a restricted, forested area in Virginia when he encounters three objects he can only describe as "moving statues." In an overpowering, almost comically loud voice, they begin telling him preposterous things: That within a few years most of humanity will be dead; that they would like to offer everyone a dying wish; that he should "tell others". Though they prove that, in an odd way, they can grant wishes, they are not remotely interested in explaining who they are, what their motive is, how they operate, or how mankind is supposed to perish. As E. reluctantly takes on the task of "spreading the word", he is unwillingly drawn into the halls of power, tapped by the forces of would-be revolution, and enmeshed in an impossible romance. As E.'s journey progresses, thousands of lives begin to change, and even the ancient concepts of death and salvation take a strange, twisted turn.
Author : D. L. Carter
Publisher : Ridiculous Lovers
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1794241183
Funny. Sexy. Cross Dressing.Not your mother's Regency Romance.After the death of her miserly cousin Antony North, Millicent Boarder is determined her family should never be poor or vulnerable again.To protect them she conceals her cousin's death and assumes his identity. Now she must face the Ton and the world as Mr. North and accept the price she must pay for her family's safety -- she will never be loved.Which means now is the perfect time for her to rescue a duke ... up to his neck in a mud puddle!