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Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Lost highway (Motion picture)
ISBN : UOM:39015050265845
Author : Philip Shaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134493197
Often labelled as ‘indescribable’, the sublime is a term that has been debated for centuries amongst writers, artists, philosophers and theorists. Usually related to ideas of the great, the awe-inspiring and the overpowering, the sublime has become a complex yet crucial concept in many disciplines. Offering historical overviews and explanations, Philip Shaw looks at: the legacy of the earliest, classical theories of the sublime through the romantic to the postmodern and avant-garde sublimity the major theorists of the sublime such as Kant, Burke, Lyotard, Derrida, Lacan and Zizek, offering critical introductions to each the significance of the concept through a range of literary readings including the Old and New testaments, Homer, Milton and writing from the romantic era how the concept of the sublime has affected other art forms such as painting and film, from abstract expressionism to David Lynch’s neo-noir. This remarkably clear study of what is, in essence, a term which evades definition, is essential reading for students of literature, critical and cultural theory.
Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UOM:39015008190186
Author : Ashley Burgoyne,Melissa Collin
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1987613791
From birds and beasts, fairy tales, dreams and flights of fancy to harsh reality, this weird and wonderful collection of poetry takes you on an emotional journey through life. Birth, growth, love and loss are explored through humour, high drama and tight poetic forms. It is a unique poetic journey that is, like life, sublime and ridiculous.
Author : Cian Duffy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316515914
This is the only collection of its kind to focus on one of the most important aspects of the cultural history of the Romantic period, its sources, and its afterlives. Multidisciplinary in approach, the volume examines the variety of areas of enquiry and genres of cultural productivity in which the sublime played a substantial role during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. With impressive international scope, this Companion considers the Romantic sublime in both European and American contexts and features essays by leading scholars from a range of national backgrounds and subject specialisms, including state-of-the-art perspectives in digital and environmental humanities. An accessible, wide-ranging, and thorough introduction, aimed at researchers, students, and general readers alike, and including extensive suggestions for further reading, The Cambridge Companion to the Romantic Sublime is the go-to book on the subject.
Author : Terri Powers,Theresa Powers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 141078987X
Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Jeffrey M. Duban
Publisher : CLAIRVIEW BOOKS
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Terry Reed
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 52,8 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 : Martina Domines Veliki,Cian Duffy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Matthew Ward
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Dorothea Desforges
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Older people
ISBN : 0953919056
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1829
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z259084509
Author : James I. Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107037472
Detailed new account of the historical emergence and conceptual reach of the sublime both before and after Longinus.
