The Fool S Mirror

Author : Alex Dylan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 047336560X

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The Fool's Mirror by Alex Dylan Pdf

Author : Nigellus Wireker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : England
ISBN : UOM:39015004801190

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A Mirror for Fools by Nigellus Wireker Pdf

Author : Nigellus Wireker (ca)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:422028114

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A Mirror for Fools by Nigellus Wireker (ca) Pdf

Author : Yona Pinson
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015079289289

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The Fools' Journey by Yona Pinson Pdf

Tracing the evolution of the newly emerging iconographical patterns of fools and folly, this book sheds light on the original and innovative invention that was an exclusive creation of northern Renaissance art and culture. The novel theme of the fools' journey, as expressed mainly through prints in Germany and later in the Netherlands in the sixteenth century is revealed as an ironical paraphrase, parodying the well established Christian topos, the Pilgrimage of Life or the Pilgrimage of the Human Soul, which offered the believer the opportunity to travel on the road toward redemption. The new mythical image of the fools' journey, however, confronts the contemporary reader/viewer with the image of the fool on his voyage that leads him, instead, to his doomed fate, thereby reflecting a pessimistic world-view. The newly emerging visual vocabulary is considered in relation to analogical contemporary didactic and satirical theatrical performances such as the rederijkers plays, the sotties, and also carnival processions. Proposing a new reading of Sebastian Brant's The Ship of Fools (Das Narrenschiff, Basel 1494), a landmark in the new iconography of the allegorical journey, this study recognizes as well the power of the visual image employed in the woodcuts-illustrations accompanying the treatise as a tool of moral teaching, used as a means of influencing the larger urban audience for whom word and image were sometimes interchangeable. Concomitantly, the divergence between verbal expression and visual language may be seen to define the inherent codes of the visual expressions. It is precisely the gap between literary sources and visualization, the very moment when visual vocabulary crystallizes, and image departs from word creating its own autonomous expression and language, that attracts our attention. The range and diversity of visual material related to the fools' journey topos, addresses a wide spectrum of audiences. This study also takes into consideration the strategies of communicating meanings and values to various publics. Addressing the wider urban public that was not necessarily lettered, notably women, illustrated-books and images were envisaged first of all as didactic tools. In accordance, the painters-engravers attended their public with rather simple visual elaborations that could be easily deciphered. Paintings, drawings, and prints intended for highly cultivated elite circles of urban society, among them works by Albrecht Durer and Hieronymus Bosch, demanded greater intellectual involvement on the part of the beholder, challenging the sophisticated viewer to re-create a meaningful ensemble out of the various scenes and motifs presented within complex compositions.

Author : R. Bell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230337725

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Shakespeare's Great Stage of Fools by R. Bell Pdf

This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. Through close reading of plays over the whole course of Shakespeare's theatrical career, Bell highlights the fun, wit, insights, and mysteries of some of Shakespeare's most vibrant and often vexing figures.

Author : Don Ambrose
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781440117831

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Scoundrels, Thugs, and Fools by Don Ambrose Pdf

Scoundrels, Thugs, and Fools depicts an adventurous journey through an imaginary island nation completely dominated by right-wing extremists. Manifestations of wingnut skulduggery, corruption, dogmatism, and the wild spin of shameless propaganda are reflected in the names and actions of characters such as Pundit O. Gasbag (a loud, narrow-minded, infuriating news anchor talk-show host at Weasel News), Shrilly Noxious (his wild-eyed, psychopathic partner in punditry), Bovine Ninny (a shallow, inarticulate, dull-witted man of puzzling charisma who somehow became the Emperor of Neoconland), and Senator Hubris Mendacious III Esq. (a long-serving politician who dances to the tune of corporate lobbyists whenever they pull his puppet strings, which are attached to metal eye hooks screwed into his knees, wrists, skull, larynx, and groin). Some Neoconian locations, corporations, organizations, and artifacts include Flaming Filth River in Empathy Gulf Valley, Lobbyville in the capital city of Fascisto, the Zealots' Court Building, Dogma University, Coughing Coal-Black Industries, the Maniacal Cult of Intolerant Absolutism, and the Boneshredder assault rifle (grand prize at the Guns for Kids Jamboree). The playful story is supported by extensive footnotes explaining the meaning of the characters and events in terms of rigorous research findings from various academic disciplines.

Author : Alfred Neumann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1934
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:499087655

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The Mirror of Fools by Alfred Neumann Pdf

Author : Beatrice K. Otto
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226640914

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Fools Are Everywhere by Beatrice K. Otto Pdf

In this lively work, Beatrice K. Otto takes us on a journey around the world in search of one of the most colorful characters in history—the court jester. Though not always clad in cap and bells, these witty, quirky characters crop up everywhere, from the courts of ancient China and the Mogul emperors of India to those of medieval Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. With a wealth of anecdotes, jokes, quotations, epigraphs, and illustrations (including flip art), Otto brings to light little-known jesters, highlighting their humanizing influence on people with power and position and placing otherwise remote historical figures in a more idiosyncratic, intimate light. Most of the work on the court jester has concentrated on Europe; Otto draws on previously untranslated classical Chinese writings and other sources to correct this bias and also looks at jesters in literature, mythology, and drama. Written with wit and humor, Fools Are Everywhere is the most comprehensive look at these roguish characters who risked their necks not only to mock and entertain but also to fulfill a deep and widespread human and social need.

Author : Kol
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479742158

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Fools by Kol Pdf

“All anyone wants is to be read like a page-turner—opened, flipped through, enjoyed. People want to be connected with, used, loved, if only privately by an exclusive person or set of people. We want to be read like books because we write ourselves like books; narratives of character, theme, plot. And we read ourselves, too, what we’ve written in our minds.” “It’s scary,” says Ana; her brow coldly sweats. “Imagine it’s a dreamscape,” I say, squinching. “The trees are sleepwalkers. They sway and breathe. Their canopies are the umbragical skulls of scatterbrained giants.” —from Fools

Author : John BRYDALL
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1700
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020537448

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Non compos mentis: or, the Law relating to natural fools, mad folks and lunatick persons, inquisited and explained, etc by John BRYDALL Pdf

Author : Charlie T. McCormick Ph.D.,Kim Kennedy White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1396 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781598842425

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Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art, [3 volumes] by Charlie T. McCormick Ph.D.,Kim Kennedy White Pdf

Written by an international team of acclaimed folklorists, this reference text provides a cross-cultural survey of the major types and methods of inquiry in folklore. Did you know that the tale of Cinderella is over 1,000 years old, and similar versions of this singular story exist in hundreds of cultures around the globe? Have you heard of "deathlore," a subgenre of folklore involving tombstones, coffins, cemeteries, and roadside memorial shrines? Did you realize that UFO sightings and cyber cultures constitute modern folklore? The broad field of folklore studies, developed over the past two centuries, provides significant insights into many aspects of human culture. While the term "folklore" conjures images of ancient practices and beliefs or folk heroes and traditional stories, it also applies to today's ever-changing cultural landscape. Even certain aspects of modern Internet-based popular culture and contemporary rites of passage represent folklore. This encyclopedia covers all the major genres of both ancient and contemporary folklore. This second edition adds more than 100 entries that examine the folklore practices of major ethnic groups, folk heroes, creatures of myth and legend, and emerging areas of interest in folklore studies.

Author : Terry Lindvall
Publisher : Koehler Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1633930246

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A Mirror for Fools: an Illustrated Alphabet of Religious Satire by Terry Lindvall Pdf

Our purpose is threefold: first, to visually introduce an historical character who contributed to the practice of humor and satire in cartoon form. Second, we offer a bit of doggerel to tease some aspect of the person. Third, we settle down and provide a bit of context for the illustration and the verse. Like Horace's dulce et utile, we hope to teach and delight simultaneously. A mix of verse and illustration and commentary is meant to send readers back to the sources, to the rich, varied tradition of wit and humor being used for moral and spiritual reform. It then serves as that mirror that shows the reader his or her face, even as the authors recognize the marks of folly in their own.

Author : Patrick Quentin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504051491

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A Puzzle for Fools by Patrick Quentin Pdf

This first act of a mystery series by an Edgar Award winner, Broadway producer/amateur sleuth Peter Duluth delivers “your money’s worth of theatrics” (Kirkus Reviews). Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher wrote: “Quentin is particularly noted for the enviable polish and grace which make him one of the leading American fabricants of the murderous comedy of manners; but this surface smoothness conceals intricate and meticulous plot construction as faultless as that of Agatha Christie.” Peter Duluth was once an up-and-comer on the Great White Way. But after his wife died, he dove into a bottle and stayed there. It’s only when he’s about to hit rock bottom that he decides to dry out, admitting himself into rehab to save his life. Unfortunately, Peter’s new home turns out to be even more dangerous than the outside world when a staff member is murdered, and a patient soon checks out in a similar manner. Peter thinks he may have an idea of what’s going on, but isn’t sure what he’s hearing and seeing is real, or if the DTs are still playing with his head. When a beautiful fellow patient falls under suspicion, Peter realizes that the deadly mystery is offering him not only a new life, but also a new love. All he has to do now is find a crazed killer in a place where crazy is the norm . . .

Author : Dwight B. Billings,Gurney Norman,Katherine Ledford
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813143347

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Back Talk from Appalachia by Dwight B. Billings,Gurney Norman,Katherine Ledford Pdf

Appalachia has long been stereotyped as a region of feuds, moonshine stills, mine wars, environmental destruction, joblessness, and hopelessness. Robert Schenkkan's 1992 Pulitzer-Prize winning play The Kentucky Cycle once again adopted these stereotypes, recasting the American myth as a story of repeated failure and poverty--the failure of the American spirit and the poverty of the American soul. Dismayed by national critics' lack of attention to the negative depictions of mountain people in the play, a group of Appalachian scholars rallied against the stereotypical representations of the region's people. In Back Talk from Appalachia, these writers talk back to the American mainstream, confronting head-on those who view their home region one-dimensionally. The essays, written by historians, literary scholars, sociologists, creative writers, and activists, provide a variety of responses. Some examine the sources of Appalachian mythology in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature. Others reveal personal experiences and examples of grassroots activism that confound and contradict accepted images of ""hillbillies."" The volume ends with a series of critiques aimed directly at The Kentucky Cycle and similar contemporary works that highlight the sociological, political, and cultural assumptions about Appalachia fueling today's false stereotypes.

Author : Nigellus de Longo Campo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:65299491

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A Mirror for Fools, Or The Book of Burnell the Ass by Nigellus de Longo Campo Pdf