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The Birth of Death and Other Comedies

Tom Whalen
The Birth of Death and Other Comedies Book PDF

Author : Tom Whalen
Publisher : Dalkey Archive Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781564786401

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Russell H. Greenan's "It Happened in Boston?" is one of the most radical narratives to appear in the late 1960s ("this is a book that encompasses everything" as David L. Ulin noted in "Bookforum"). Yet due in large part to the difficulty of classifying Greenan's fiction, many readers are unaware of his other novels. In "The Birth of Death and Other Comedies: The Novels of Russell H. Greenan," Tom Whalen, drawing widely from the American literary tradition, locates Greenan's lineage in the work of Hawthorne and Poe "where allegory and dream mingle with and illuminate realism," as well as in the fiction of Twain, West, Hammett, Cain, and Thompson. Examining Greenan's characteristic themes and strategies, Whalen provides perceptive readings of the dark comedies of this criminally neglected American master, and in a coda reflects on Greenan's career and the reception of his work.

The Death of Comedy

Erich Segal
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Author : Erich Segal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0674043413

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In a grand tour of comic theater over the centuries, Erich Segal traces the evolution of the classical form from its early origins in a misogynistic quip by the sixth-century B.C. Susarion, through countless weddings and happy endings, to the exasperated monosyllables of Samuel Beckett. With fitting wit, profound erudition lightly worn, and instructive examples from the mildly amusing to the uproarious, his book fully illustrates comedy's glorious life cycle from its first breath to its death in the Theater of the Absurd.

Dead Mom Walking

Rachel Matlow
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Author : Rachel Matlow
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780735236318

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Vine Award in Non-Fiction "A comedy for catastrophic times." --CBC "A hilarious memoir of effervescent misadventures." --Toronto Star "How am I laughing at someone's mother's cancer? How? We think we can't laugh about death, about cancer, about our mothers and their suffering . . . and we can't, but we can. And there's so much relief in that." --Carolyn Taylor, BARONESS VON SKETCH SHOW A whip-smart and darkly funny memoir about an unconventional family, the limits of wellness fads, and the mother of all catastrophes. Rachel Matlow’s eccentric mom, Elaine, never quite followed the script handed down to her. Her bold out-there-ness made it okay for Rachel to be their genderqueer self and live life on their own terms. But when Elaine decides to try to heal her cancer naturally, Rachel has to draw the line. What ensues is a tug of war between logical and magical thinking, an odyssey through New Age remedies ranging from herbal tinctures and juice cleanses to a countryside ayahuasca trip, and a portrait of a mother and child who’ve never been physically closer or ideologically further apart. In facing their inimitable mother’s death, Rachel has written a book bursting with life—the epic adventures and epic fails, the broken limbs and belly laughs. As hilarious as it is poignant, Dead Mom Walking is about writing the story of your life only to find out that life has other plans.

Death at the Movies

Lyn Genelli,Tom Davis Genelli
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Author : Lyn Genelli,Tom Davis Genelli
Publisher : Quest Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780835609166

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"A study of the issue of death and dying and how it is treated in several films. Covers Buddhist concepts such as the Bardo and reincarnation"--

Birth and Death of Meaning

Ernest Becker
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Author : Ernest Becker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781439118429

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Uses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do.

Shakespeare's Comedy of The Tempest

William Shakespeare
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Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CUB:U183026608606

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Picturing Argentina: Myths, Movies, and the Peronist Vision

Currie K. Thompson
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Author : Currie K. Thompson
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781604978797

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Although Juan Domingo Perón's central role in Argentine history and the need for an unbiased assessment of his impact on his nation's cinema are beyond dispute, the existing scholarship on the subject is limited. In recent decades Argentina has witnessed a revival of serious film study, some of which has focused on the nation's classical movies and, in one case, on Peronism. None of this work has been translated into English, however.This is the first English-language book that offers an extensive assessment of Argentine cinema during first Peronism. It is also the first study in any language that concentrates systematically on the evolution of social attitudes reflected in Argentine movies throughout those years and that assesses the period's impact on subsequent filmmaking activity. By analyzing popular Argentine movies from this time through the prism of myth-second-order communication systems that present historically developed customs and attitudes as natural-the book traces the filmic construction of gender, criminality, race, the family, sports, and the military. It identifies in movies the development and evolution of mindsets and attitudes that may be construed as "Peronist." By framing its consideration of films from the Perón years in the context of earlier and later ones, it demonstrates that this period accelerates-and sometimes registers backward-looking responses to-earlier progressive mythic shifts, and it traces the development in the 1950s of a critical mindset that comes to fruition in the "new cinema" of the 1960s. Picturing Argentina: Myths, Movies, and the Peronist Vision is an important book for Latin American studies, film studies, and history collections.

THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF JJ BUNNY

Joy Edjeren
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Author : Joy Edjeren
Publisher : AQUQO PRESS
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Joy was just a little girl when she became enamored by the glitz and glamour associated with the celebrity lifestyle. A musical video of Madonna was all that was needed to set her on the path of aspiring to become a star. This book chronicles her foray into the American music industry, and the African entertainment industry Nollywood; her scandalous experiences therein and the lessons learned in her eleven-year journey. In this deeply personal narration, you are given a front-row seat as she uncovers the rot concealed by the glitz and glamour and how God eventually opened her eyes to the lies and deception in the entertainment industry. This is a full exposé; no punches pulled! There is a high price for fame, and you need to know it.

Comedy of Human Life

Honoré de Balzac
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Author : Honoré de Balzac
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101076479086

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Why So Serious: On Philosophy and Comedy

Russell Ford
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Author : Russell Ford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351363020

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The Western philosophical tradition shows a marked fondness for tragedy. From Plato and Aristotle, through German idealism, to contemporary reflections on the murderous violence of the twentieth century, philosophy has often looked to tragedy for resources to make suffering, grief, and death thinkable. But what if showing a preference for tragedy, philosophical thought has unwittingly and unknowingly aligned itself with a form of thinking that accepts injustice without protest? This collection explores possibilities for philosophical thinking that refuses the tragic model of thought, and turns instead to its often-overlooked companion: comedy. Comprising of a series of experiments ranging across the philosophical tradition, the essays in this volume propose to break, or at least suspend, the use of tragedy as an index of truth and philosophical worth. Instead, they explore new conceptions of solidarity, sympathy, critique, and justice. In addition, the essays collected here provide ample reason to believe that philosophical thinking, aligned with comedy, is capable of important and original insights, discoveries, and creations. The prejudicial acceptance of tragic seriousness only impoverishes the life of thought; it can be rejuvenated and renewed by laughter and the comic. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

The Biographical Treasury

Samuel Maunder
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Author : Samuel Maunder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1104 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Biography
ISBN : MINN:31951P00240316E

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The Infernal Comedy

Richard Gerner
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Author : Richard Gerner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Heaven
ISBN : HARVARD:HX5CHV

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