The Art Of Invective

Author : Dennis Potter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781783197026

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The Art of Invective by Dennis Potter Pdf

Dennis Potter (1935-94) was Britain’s leading television dramatist for almost thirty years and remains an inspiration to today’s programme makers as a result of such ground-breaking work as Pennies from Heaven, Blue Remembered Hills and The Singing Detective. But he also engaged with his audience through reviews, journalism, interviews, broadcasts and speeches. The Art of Invective, the first collection of its kind, brings together some of his finest non-fiction work. Published to mark 80 years since Potter’s birth, this book includes his merciless television columns, penetrating literary criticism and angry writings on class and politics, as well as his sketches for Sixties satire shows including That Was the Week That Was. From Frost-Nixon to Coronation Street, David Hare to Doctor Who, Orwell to Emu, this collection shows Potter’s distinctive voice at its entertaining, thought-provoking and uncompromising best.

Author : Samuel Neil
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600070379

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The Art of Public Speaking ... by Samuel Neil Pdf

Author : Nicolino Applauso
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498567794

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Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy by Nicolino Applauso Pdf

Dante's Comedy and the Ethics of Invective in Medieval Italy proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in Italy during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and opens the way for an innovative understanding of Dante’s masterpiece. The Middle Ages in Italy offer a wealth of vernacular poetic invectives—polemical verses aimed at blaming specific wrongdoings of an individual, group, city or institution— that are both understudied and rarely juxtaposed. No study has yet provided a scholarly examination of the connection between this medieval invective tradition, and its elements of humor, derision, and reprehension in Dante’s Comedy. This book argues that these comic texts are rooted in and actively engaged with the social, political, and religious conflicts of their time. Political invective has a dynamic ethical orientation that is mediated by a humor that disarms excessive hostility against its individual targets, providing an opening for dialogue. While exploring medieval comic poems by Rustico Filippi (from Florence), Cecco Angiolieri (from Siena), and Folgore da San Gimignano, this study unveils new biographical data about these poets retrieved from Italian state archives (most of these data are published here in English for the very first time), and ultimately shows what the medieval invective tradition can add to our understanding of Dante’s Comedy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1344 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951001919201H

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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Literary and political reviews
ISBN : UGA:32108057765227

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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, Art, and Finance by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gary C. Woodward
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742572782

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Center Stage by Gary C. Woodward Pdf

This up-to-date and lively text focuses on a wide range of issues, such as politics as theater, the economic forces shaping contemporary political media, the rhetoric of the 'War on Terrorism,' and the growth of new media. Separate chapters explore a range of contexts, including the presidency, Congress and the courts, foreign news reporting, and political art. The text concludes with ways to open up additional pathways for imagining our national life, ranging from Internet-supported activism to innovative uses of documentary film. Center Stage: Media and the Performance of American Politics examines political and mediated communication as forms of representational theater. Taking the dramatic orientation to politics seriously, Woodward explores how American civic culture is variously enriched and diminished by the ways practitioners and journalists organize narratives, or stories, about our civic life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 896 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030033900269

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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles E. Cruise
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532647345

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Writing on the Edge by Charles E. Cruise Pdf

In Paul's angry letter, everything is magnified. His obstructers have insidious motives, their Galatian victims are dense and on the brink of spiritual peril, and the law itself is outmoded and a malevolent taskmaster. How do we read beneath the rhetoric? Writing on the Edge surveys ancient Greco-Roman and modern linguistic sources on hyperbole and demonstrates that it is possible to separate out the effect of Paul's edgy rhetoric on his ideas. Eleven criteria are applied to identify Paul's most hyperbolic passages in Galatians, followed by a reinterpretation of those passages and the entire thrust of the letter. Paul's true attitudes emerge, and a more consistent picture of the apostle materializes, one in line with his Torah-observant behavior in Acts.

Author : William Brosend
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611641837

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The Preaching of Jesus by William Brosend Pdf

Using the findings of historical Jesus studies, William Brosend asks, what is the rhetoric that characterized the preaching of Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels, and how may today's preaching benefit from it? This book for preachers and students of preaching helps the reader see four distinct aspects of the rhetoric of Jesus: dialogical (preaching in response to challenges and questions); proclamatory (making bold and authoritative statements); occasionally self-referential (though less so than in the Fourth Gospel); and persistently figurative (illustrating his message through metaphor). Brosend spends one chapter on each of these methods, closing each chapter with a sermon that models that approach and his analysis of it. Sample sermons are by well-known preachers including Fred Craddock, Michael Curry, Tom Long, and Barbara Brown Taylor. Brosend concludes with the implications for modern preaching and a sermon of his own.

Author : Bobbi Bly
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781440504709

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The Words You Should Know to Sound Smart by Bobbi Bly Pdf

This book is a tongue-in-cheek guide to words that any well-educated, witty person should be able to drop into cocktail conversation. The reader is encouraged to toss off words such as “disestablishmentarianism,” “descant,” and “autodidactic” –words that will make the user sound learned, intellectual, and wise. For those who want to improve the quality and sophistication of their speech and writing, this is the book to keep on the nightstand.

Author : Eric Leland Saak
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004504707

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Augustinian Theology in the Later Middle Ages by Eric Leland Saak Pdf

The most comprehensive and extensive treatment to date, based on a major reinterpretation, of what has been called late medieval Augustinianism.

Author : Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Beowulf
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Art of Beowulf by Arthur Gilchrist Brodeur Pdf

Author : Aristotle
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : EAN:4057664102829

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Aristotle on the art of poetry by Aristotle Pdf

This is a translation of one of the Greek writers, Aristotle's, best known works. This particular piece was written not for publication, but more in the style of a lecturer's or scholar's notes. It is intended as an 'answer' to a piece written by Plato in which he denounces poetry

Author : Darryl Dickson-Carr
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780826263742

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African American Satire by Darryl Dickson-Carr Pdf

"Satire's real purpose as a literary genre is to criticize through humor, irony, caricature, and parody, and ultimately to defy the status quo. In African American Satire, Darryl Dickson-Carr provides the first book-length study of African-American satire and the vital role it has played. In the process he investigates African American literature, American literature, and the history of satire." --Book Jacket.

Author : Clive James
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781509832446

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Visions Before Midnight by Clive James Pdf

From the man who made TV criticism an entertainment in its own right comes Visions Before Midnight, a selection from the column hundreds of thousands of devoted fans would turn to first thing on a Sunday morning. Clive James's comic brilliance is displayed here, from the 1972 Olympics (But your paradigm no-no commentary can't be made up of fluffs alone. It needs flannel in lengthy widths, and it's here that Harry and Alan come through like a whole warehouse full of pyjamas) to the 1976 Olympics ('Jenkins has a lot to do' was a new way of saying that our man, of whom we had such high hopes, was not going to pull out the big one). In between we have 'War and Peace' (Tolstoy makes television history), the Royal Wedding (Dimbling suavely, Tom Fleming introduced the scene), the Winter Olympics (unintelligibuhl), the Eurovision Song Contest (The Hook of their song lasted a long time in the mind, like a kick in the knee. You could practically hear the Koreans singing it. 'Waterloo . . .' ), and much more.