Stifled Laughter

Author : Claudia Johnson
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781682753613

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Stifled Laughter by Claudia Johnson Pdf

Pulitzer Prize Nominated Winner of the 1993 PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award for Claudia Johnson's extraordinary efforts to restore banned literary classics from Florida classrooms. Part memoir, part courtroom drama, and part primer for advocates fighting assaults on free speech, Stifled Laughter is the story of one woman's efforts to restore literary classics to the classrooms of rural north Florida. Updated with a new introduction, Johnson's honest, often hilarious, first-person account of censorship in its modern form provides valuable insight into why the books children read at school remains a controversial issue, and why free speech in America remains a precarious right. Johnson fights tirelessly to keep texts like Lysistrata and "The Millers Tale" in Florida school textbooks regardless of a preacher's efforts to take them out. Readers are given a glimpse into the courtroom and all the drama, passion, and hard work that follows. Johnson's writing is witty, emotional, and humorous, and it makes you want to jump in and fight censorship and book banning right alongside her. For anyone who has ever wondered just how far those who seek to ban books will go in limiting free expression, this book proves once again that the personal is political. At a time when book banning has reached new heights, parents and teachers, writers, and readers will all benefit from Johnson's experience and be touched by her spirit and courage.

Author : James Nikopoulos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429639661

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The Stability of Laughter by James Nikopoulos Pdf

A "sad and corrupt" age, a period of "crisis" and "upheaval"—what T.S. Eliot famously summed up as "the panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." Modernism has always been characterized by its self-conscious sense of suffering. Why, then, was it so obsessed with laughter? From Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Bergson and Freud to Pirandello, Beckett, Hughes, Barnes, and Joyce, no moment in cultural history has written about laughter this much. James Nikopoulos investigates modernity’s paradoxical relationship with mirth. Why was the gesture we conventionally associate with happiness deemed the only sensible way of responding to a world, as Max Weber wrote, that had been "disenchanted of its gods?" In answering these questions, Nikopoulos also delves into our ongoing relationship with laughter. He looks to contemporary research in emotion and evolutionary theory, as well as to the two-thousand-plus-year history of the philosophy of humor, in order to propose a novel way of understanding laughter, humor, and their complicated relationships with modern life. The Stability of Laughter explores how art unsettles the simplifications we revert to in our attempts to make sense of human history and social interaction.

Author : Molly Stillman
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400243204

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If I Don't Laugh, I'll Cry by Molly Stillman Pdf

In this laugh-out-loud and heartfelt memoir, writer, speaker, and podcaster Molly Stillman shares her unforgettable story of losing her mother, squandering an unexpected quarter-of-a-million-dollar inheritance in less than two years, attempting to launch a career in comedy but ending up on a farm instead, and finding faith, hope, and joy in the middle of it all. Molly Stillman has lived the type of life that when shared, people stop in their tracks and ask, "Wait, what happened?" Molly's mother, Lynda Van Devanter Buckley served as an Army nurse during the Vietnam War and wrote the bestselling memoir, Home Before Morning. When Molly was seventeen, Lynda passed away after an eight-year battle with an autoimmune disorder due to her exposure to Agent Orange. Four years later, Molly turned twenty-one and unexpectedly inherited a quarter of a million dollars from her mother's estranged family's estate. Through "retail therapy" and a long series of grossly irresponsible financial decisions, Molly found herself broke with over $36,000 in credit card debt less than two years later. Shame, guilt, and embarrassment set in. With aspirations of a career in comedy, Molly used humor to mask the pain and brokenness she felt, believing that if she looked joyful and put together on the outside, it would eventually be true on the inside. Instead, she spent the next few years depressed, lonely, and feeling alienated from those closest to her. But an unlikely call with a compassionate credit counselor, meeting the spreadsheet-loving man who eventually became her husband, and a surprising visit to a church started her on a path that changed everything. If I Don't Laugh, I'll Cry will bring readers into the tension of feeling both joy and grief and show them that every broken, messed up story has a purpose, and it's possible to gain everything if they're willing to surrender it all to Jesus.

Author : Angela B. Moorjani,Carola Veit
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9042015993

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Samuel Beckett by Angela B. Moorjani,Carola Veit Pdf

From the contents: Beckett and the quest for meaning (Martin Esslin). - Beckett's tonic laughter (Manfred Pfister). - The magic triangle: James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Arno Schmidt (Friedhelm Rathjen). - Beckett performed in Italy (Annamaria Cascetta). - Beckett and synaesthesia (Yoshiki Tajiri). - Beckett versus the reader (Michael Guest).

Author : Jean Duffy,Alastair Duncan
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781846312854

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Claude Simon by Jean Duffy,Alastair Duncan Pdf

This collection of essays celebrates the work of the French Nobel prize-winning novelist Claude Simon. Scholars from France, Germany, the United States and the United Kingdom reconsider the fifty years of Simon’s fiction in the light of his large-scale autobiographical novel Le Jardin des Plantes (1997). From a variety of perspectives – postmodernist, psychoanalytic, aesthetic – contributors reflect on the central paradox of Simon’s work: his writing and rewriting of an experience of war so disruptive and traumatic that words can never be adequate to communicate it. The layers of artifice in Le Jardin des Plantes and the nature of Simon’s aesthetic are analysed in essays which explore intertextual resonances between Simon and Proust, Flaubert, Borges and Poussin. A complementary view of Simon’s Photographies 1937–1970 shows that it too can be seen as form of indirect autobiography.

Author : Robert L. Latta
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110806137

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The Basic Humor Process by Robert L. Latta Pdf

Author : Jennifer Birkett,Kate Ince
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317885832

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Samuel Beckett by Jennifer Birkett,Kate Ince Pdf

Bringing together seminal writings on Beckett from the 1950s and 1960s with critical readings from the 1980s and 1990s, this collection is inspired by a wide variety of literary-theoretical approaches and covers the whole range of Beckett's creative work. Following an up-to-date review and analysis of Beckett criticism, fifteen extracts of Beckett criticism are introduced and set in context by editors' headnotes. The book aims to make easily accessible to students and scholars stimulating and innovative writing on the work of Samuel Beckett, representing the wide range of new perspectives opened up by contemporary critical theory: philosophical, political and psychoanalytic criticism, feminist and gender studies, semiotics, and reception theory.

Author : Phil Polizatto
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Nineteen seventies
ISBN : 9781598587371

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Hunga Dunga by Phil Polizatto Pdf

GIACCO GIORDANO is insane He has organic brain damage from too much LSD. He's harmless, but incurable. The State awards him a paltry stipend, but enough to contribute to the communal coffers of Hunga Dunga and to pursue enlightenment on a grand scale. This is Giacco's story about that brief but unforgettable time in our history when fl ower children were sure peace and love would guide the planet. It was only a matter of time. Or so they thought. What happened? Giacco would like to remind you. Time is running out. HUNGA DUNGA is often holy, often horny. Sometimes saintly, sometimes sexually explicit. From New York to Los Angeles, Lovelock to Woodstock, Tucson to Prince George, San Francisco to Twisp, and an amazing journey around the world in search of The Guru. You are in for some very strange rides. If you are lucky, you may just find the secret to god-realization. But make sure you are sitting under a blanket. ..".this is damned good stuff Superlative dialogue. Written with a comfort and assuredness that vacuumed me into that world. Excellent, amusing and poignant..." - Colonel, Retired, U.S. Army Donald McRae, author of Montana Gold and Conflict of Interest "Polizatto had given the world an amazing (and accurate) picture of that very special time in history. He's woven such a sweet and beautiful story in such a conversational manner, that all the intellectual references gently drip like honey so that anyone can partake in the feast." - Lee Balan, author of Exhumations and Alien Journal ..".this book is defi nitely Kerouacian in it's scope, both on the human (cast of characters - and what characters ) and geographical scale. For those who have ears to hear, Hunga Dunga is a reminder of some of our deepest and hardest won truths." - Randolph Maxted, publisher, The Intriguist Literary and Arts Magazine PHIL POLIZATTO attended a very reputable university and graduated reputably. He has been a feature writer for the overseas division of UPI, a copywriter for CBS, and an award-winning corporate film producer. He wrote the score, lyrics and book for the musical, Pokin' Around and immortalized the music of Cowboy Bob in the unforgettable CD, Cowboy Bob: The Morbid Years. Mr. Polizatto is a published poet and a regular contributor to a popular arts and literary journal. Hunga Dunga is his first novel. He resides in the Pacific Northwest.

Author : Elizabeth Jane Whately
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000318915

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Maude, Or the Anglican Sister of Mercy by Elizabeth Jane Whately Pdf

Author : Eva Jordan
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504070737

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Time Will Tell by Eva Jordan Pdf

A woman and her family confront past traumas and present-day suspicions after news emerges of a celebrity’s mysterious death . . . Lizzie and her loving but somewhat dysfunctional family are still grieving over the loss of a much-loved family member. Lizzie is doing her best to keep her family together—but the recent death of a high-profile record producer has them in a spin. The police suspect foul play; Lizzie and other family members suspect one another. A troubling personal connection to the dead man and his sordid behavior leads Lizzie to begin searching for answers. And soon, she finds herself being dragged back into the past, and into the life of her father, which up until now she has never been privy to . . .

Author : Irving
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00097918

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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Irving Pdf

Author : Nora Gilbert
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198876540

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Gone Girls, 1684-1901 by Nora Gilbert Pdf

In Gone Girls, 1684-1901, Nora Gilbert argues that the persistent trope of female characters running away from some iteration of 'home' played a far more influential role in the histories of both the rise of the novel and the rise of modern feminism than previous accounts have acknowledged. For as much as the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British novel may have worked to establish the private, middle-class, domestic sphere as the rightful (and sole) locus of female authority in the ways that prior critics have outlined, it was also continually showing its readers female characters who refused to buy into such an agenda--refusals which resulted, strikingly often, in those characters' physical flights from home. The steady current of female flight coursing through this body of literature serves as a powerful counterpoint to the ideals of feminine modesty and happy homemaking it was expected officially to endorse, and challenges some of novel studies' most accepted assumptions. Just as the #MeToo movement has used the tool of repeated, aggregated storytelling to take a stand against contemporary rape culture, Gone Girls, 1684-1901 identifies and amplifies a recurrent strand of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British storytelling that served both to emphasize the prevalence of gendered injustices throughout the period and to narrativize potential ways and means for readers facing such injustices to rebel, resist, and get out.

Author : Mary Anne H. Nicholl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Religious communities
ISBN : NLS:V000648483

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Augusta: Or, The Refuted Slanders of Thirty Years Ago on the Late Miss Sellon and Her Sisters, Once More Refuted ... by Mary Anne H. Nicholl Pdf

Author : Maude
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000635039

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Maude; Or, The Anglican Sister of Mercy by Maude Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 969 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015018052970

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The Oxford Magazine by Anonim Pdf