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Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Lost highway (Motion picture)
ISBN : UOM:39015050265845
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Victoria
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172131984167
Author : H. Mortimer Franklyn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044092834837
Author : Martina Domines Veliki,Cian Duffy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030504298
This collection of essays explores the remarkable range and cultural significance of the engagement with ‘infancy’ during the Romantic period. Taking its point of departure in the commonplace claim that the Romantics invented childhood, the book traces that engagement across national boundaries, in the visual arts, in works of educational theory and natural philosophy, and in both fiction and non-fiction written for children. Essays authored by scholars from a range of national and disciplinary backgrounds reveal how Romantic-period representations of and for children constitute sites of complex discursive interaction, where ostensibly unrelated areas of enquiry are brought together through common tropes and topoi associated with infancy. Broadly new-historicist in approach, but drawing also on influential theoretical descriptions of genre, discipline, mediation, cultural exchange, and comparative methodologies, the collection also seeks to rethink the idea of a clear-cut dichotomy between Enlightenment and Romantic conceptions of infancy.
Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-23
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780191580017
This unique and authoritative dictionary contains over 1,100 of the most widely used proverbs in English and uses research from the Oxford English Corpus, the world's largest language databank. This edition has been revised and fully updated and includes numerous entirely new entries. It also features expanded coverage of foreign language proverbs currently in use in English. With an emphasis on examples of usage, including the earliest written evidence of its use, this A-Z guide provides a thorough - and fascinating - history for every entry. Arranged in A-Z format and with a useful thematic index, A Dictionary of Proverbs is ideal for browsing and perfectly suited for quick reference. Look up your old favourites, learn punchy new expressions to get your point across, and find the answer to that crossword clue. Seeing is believing: find proverbs relevant to every aspect of life in this entertaining and informative collection.
Author : Terri Powers,Theresa Powers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 141078987X
Author : Mojca Küplen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319198996
This book presents a solution to the problem known in philosophical aesthetics as the paradox of ugliness, namely, how an object that is displeasing can retain our attention and be greatly appreciated. It does this by exploring and refining the most sophisticated and thoroughly worked out theoretical framework of philosophical aesthetics, Kant’s theory of taste, which was put forward in part one of the Critique of the Power of Judgment. The book explores the possibility of incorporating ugliness, a negative aesthetic concept, into the overall Kantian aesthetic picture. It addresses a debate of the last two decades over whether Kant's aesthetics should allow for a pure aesthetic judgment of ugliness. The book critically reviews the main interpretations of Kant’s central notion of the free play of imagination and understanding and offers a new interpretation of free play, one that allows for the possibility of a disharmonious state of mind and ugliness. In addition, the book also applies an interpretation of ugliness in Kant’s aesthetics to resolve certain issues that have been raised in contemporary aesthetics, namely the possibility of appreciating artistic and natural ugliness and the role of disgust in artistic representation. Offering a theoretical and practical analysis of different kinds of negative aesthetic experiences, this book will help readers acquire a better understanding of his or her own evaluative processes, which may be helpful in coping with complex aesthetic experiences. Readers will gain unique insight into how ugliness can be offensive, yet, at the same time, fascinating, interesting and captivating.
Author : Terry Reed
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781628940350
This book presents a provocatively, outrageously assertive exposure of fools in their not infrequently bizarre manifestations, the object being to leave no halfwits behind. It explores the world of the fool from many perspectives, including Engines of Limited Cognition: Dumb Bells, Dumb Clucks and Dumb Waiters; Imprudence and Its Imbecilic Implications; Fools, Eccentrics & Sons of Momus; and Idiotic Opportunities: Putting Fools to Work. This is not to infer (or even hint) that either the author or his readership is in any demonstrable sense of the word foolish, now or at any other time. After all, no fool would write a book like this, and no fool would read it. Precisely who does read it is a discretely personal decision we leave to those gifted with more than ordinarily inquiring minds. Indeed, those who elect to come along for the ride are likely to find their minds piqued, tickled and enriched by this tour de farce. True to form, Reed illustrates Ambrose Bierce's definition of educational -- 'that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the fools their lack of understanding.' Abundantly documented, endlessly subtle, hopelessly eccentric and deadly funny, the book blends history, sociology, literature, philosophy, etymology and even theology, all with a good laugh.
Author : Rex Butler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317324430
Slavoj Žižek is the most popular and discussed philosopher in the world today. His prolific writings – across philosophy, psychoanalysis, political and social theory, film, music and religion – always engage and provoke. The power of his ideas, the breadth of his references, his capacity for playfulness and confrontation, his willingness to change his mind and his refusal fundamentally to alter his argument – all have worked to build an extraordinary international readership as well as to elicit much critical reaction. The Žižek Dictionary brings together leading Žižek commentators from across the world to present a companion and guide to Žižekian thought. Each of the 60 short essays examines a key term and, crucially, explores its development across Žižek’s work and how it fits in with other concepts and concerns. The dictionary will prove invaluable both to readers coming to Žižek for the first time and to those already embarked on the Žižekian journey.
Author : William Francis Henry King
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Quotations
ISBN : IND:39000005879288
Author : Matthew Ward
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198894766
Romantic Poets and the Laughter of Feeling embraces the sublime and the ridiculous to offer a compelling new reading of British Romanticism. Matthew Ward reveals the decisive role laughter and the laughable play in Romantic aesthetics, emotions, and ethics.
Author : Jeffrey M. Duban
Publisher : CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781905570805
Hailed by Plato as the “Tenth Muse” of ancient Greek poetry, Sappho is inarguably antiquity’s greatest lyric poet. Born over 2,600 years ago on the Greek island of Lesbos, and writing amorously of women and men alike, she is the namesake lesbian. What’s left of her writing, and what we know of her, is fragmentary. Shrouded in mystery, she is nonetheless repeatedly translated and discussed – no, appropriated – by all. Sappho has most recently undergone a variety of treatments by agenda-driven scholars and so-called poet-translators with little or no knowledge of Greek. Classicist-translator Jeffrey Duban debunks the postmodernist scholarship by which Sappho is interpreted today and offers translations reflecting the charm and elegant simplicity of the originals. Duban provides a reader-friendly overview of Sappho’s times and themes, exploring her eroticism and Greek homosexuality overall. He introduces us to Sappho’s highly cultured island home, to its lyre-accompanied musical legends, and to the fabled beauty of Lesbian women. Not least, he emphasizes the proximity of Lesbos to Troy, making the translation and enjoyment of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey a further focus. More than anything else, argues Duban, it is free verse and its rampant legacy – and no two persons more than Walt Whitman and Ezra Pound – that bear responsibility for the ruin of today’s classics in translation, to say nothing of poetry in the twentieth century. Beyond matters of reflection for classicists, Duban provides a far-ranging beginner’s guide to classical literature, with forays into Spenser and Milton, and into the colonial impulse of Virgil, Spenser, and the West at large.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z259084509
Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1824
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : BL:A0021801760
