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The fruited plain
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ISBN: 1281721727 9786611721725 0300128347 9780300128345 9781281721723 0300092903 9780300092905 Year: 2002 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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The beleaguered Joad family of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath struggled in an era of disappointed dreams and empty pockets. But how might the grandchildren of that Dust Bowl generation fare in today's more promising times? In this boisterously inventive book Alvin Kernan sends various descendants of the original Joad family on a postmodern journey out of California and into the excesses of American culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The experiences of today's Joads are as hilarious as they are discomfiting: they encounter in Kernan's America a world of democracy gone haywire and social institutions in perplexing disarray.In ten satiric episodes, Kernan visits virtually every important American institution-the family, education, religion, art, the military, law courts, sex, science and medicine, politics, and not least television and its advertisements. Unsparing with his barbs, he reveals both the fools and the knaves among us. Kernan's modern-day Joads find themselves in a distorted world where a surplus of democracy not only fails to free its inhabitants but also makes them vulnerable to the machinations of greedy and unscrupulous exploiters. Echoing the voices of such other provocative wits as Evelyn Waugh and Tom Wolfe, Kernan will make you laugh at the absurdity of American culture and-in all likelihood-at yourself.

Saturarum Menippearum fragmenta
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ISBN: 3110949954 9783110949957 3598712367 9783598712364 3111857956 Year: 2002 Publisher: Monachii

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The Devil and Doctor Dwight
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ISBN: 9781469601083 1469601087 0807827150 9780807827154 0807853836 9780807853832 0807839051 9798890875037 Year: 2002 Publisher: Chapel Hill Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsurg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press


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Een tong van lijntses : geannoteerde leeseditie van de Brieven van Pierken (1931-1935).
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ISSN: 13748750 ISBN: 9072474449 9789072474445 Year: 2002 Volume: 6 Publisher: Gent Koninklijke academie voor Nederlandse taal- en letterkunde

Traditions and contexts in the poetry of Horace
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ISBN: 0521642469 052103034X 0511180934 0511066236 0511059922 0511331118 0511482426 1280417501 1139145975 0511068360 9780511066238 9780511482427 9780521642460 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book explores the whole range of the output of an exceptionally versatile and innovative poet, from the Epodes to the literary-critical Epistles. Distinguished scholars of diverse background and interests introduce readers to a variety of critical approaches to Horace and to Latin poetry. Close attention is paid throughout to the actual text of Horace, with many of the chapters focusing on reading a single poem. These close readings are then situated in a number of different political, philosophical and historical contexts. The book sheds light not only on Horace but on the general problems confronting Latinists in the study of Augustan poetry, and it will be of value to a wide range of upper-level Latin students and scholars.

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Epistolary poetry, Latin --- -Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Laudatory poetry, Latin --- -Verse satire, Latin --- -Artistic impact --- Artistic influence --- Impact (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Literary impact --- Literary influence --- Literary tradition --- Tradition (Literature) --- Art --- Influence (Psychology) --- Literature --- Intermediality --- Intertextuality --- Originality in literature --- Latin verse satire --- Latin poetry --- Latin laudatory poetry --- Latin epistolary poetry --- History and criticism --- Horace --- -Horace --- Orazio --- Horacij Flakk, Kvint --- Criticism and interpretation --- Rome --- In literature. --- Poésie satirique latine --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Verse satire, Latin --- History --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Horatius Flaccus, Quintus --- Horatius Flaccus, Q. --- In literature --- History and criticism. --- Poésie épistolaire latine --- Poésie élogieuse latine --- Histoire et critique --- Epistolary poetry [Latin ] --- Laudatory poetry [Latin ] --- Verse satire [Latin ] --- Rome in literature --- Gorat︠s︡īĭ --- Gorat︠s︡iĭ Flakk, Kvint --- Horacij --- Horacio, --- Horacio Flaco, Q. --- Horacjusz --- Horacjusz Flakkus, Kwintus --- Horacy --- Horaṭiyos --- Horaṭiyus --- Horats --- Horaz --- Khorat︠s︡iĭ --- Khorat︠s︡iĭ Flak, Kvint --- Orazio Flacco, Quinto --- הוראציוס --- הורטיוס --- Arts and Humanities --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) - History - To 1500 --- Epistolary poetry, Latin - History and criticism --- Laudatory poetry, Latin - History and criticism --- Verse satire, Latin - History and criticism --- Horace - Criticism and interpretation --- Rome - In literature

Petronius and the anatomy of fiction
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ISBN: 052181586X 0521037018 0511178034 0511042612 0511148542 0511305389 0511482353 1280436476 0511045832 9780511042614 9780511482359 9780511045837 9780521815864 9781280436475 9780511178030 9780511148545 9780511305382 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Petronius' Satyricon, long regarded as the first 'novel' of the Western tradition, has always sparked controversy. It has been puzzled over as a strikingly modernist riddle, elevated as a work of exemplary comic realism, condemned as obscene and repackaged as a morality tale. This reading of the surviving portions of the work shows how the Satyricon fuses the anarchic and the classic, the comic and the disturbing, and presents readers with a labyrinth of narratorial viewpoints. Dr Rimell argues that the surviving fragments are connected by an imagery of disintegration, focused on the pervasive Neronian metaphor of the literary text as a human or animal body. Throughout, she discusses the limits of dominant twentieth-century views of the Satyricon as bawdy pantomime, and challenges prevailing restrictions of Petronian corporeality to material or non-metaphorical realms. This 'novel' emerges as both very Roman and very satirical in its 'intestinal' view of reality.

Polyeideia : the Iambi of Callimachus and the archaic Iambic tradition
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ISBN: 0520923685 1597348201 9780520923683 0585440514 9780585440514 0520220609 9780520220607 9781597348201 Year: 2002 Volume: 35 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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This book provides a new literary treatment of an often-overlooked collection of fragmentary poems from the third century B.C.E. Alexandrian poet Callimachus. Callimachus' Iambi form a collection of thirteen poems, which rework archaic Greek iambography and look forward to Roman satire and other genres, especially to such collections as Horace's Epodes. The poems are especially significant as examples of cultural memory since they are composed both as an act of commemorating earlier poetry and as a manipulation of traditional features of iambic poetry to refashion the iambic genre. This book fills a significant gap by providing the first complete translation of several of these fragmentary poems in English, along with line-by-line commentary, notes, and literary analysis.The structure of the book is thematic, with chapters focusing on such topics as poetic voice, fable, ethical criticism, and statuary. Each chapter consists of an introduction, text and selected critical apparatus, translation, and comprehensive thematic discussion. Acosta-Hughes focuses especially on Callimachus' manipulation of traditional features of archaic iambic poetry such as persona loquens, ethical and critical message, and eristic dialogue. He also includes a detailed analysis of the Alexandrian poet's artistic relationship with the earlier iambic poets Archilochus and Hipponax. Polyeideia will interest not only readers of Greek and Hellenistic poetry but also readers of Roman satire and invective verse, as well as those intrigued by the processes of memorializing and fashioning poetic culture.

Philosophy of nonsense : the intuitions of Victorian nonsense literature
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ISBN: 0415076536 0415076528 1138175633 0203025725 128033214X 9780203025727 9780415076531 9780415076524 9786610332144 6610332142 9781134902415 1134902417 9781134902361 1134902360 9781134902408 1134902409 9781138175631 Year: 2002 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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'Jean-Jacques Lecercle's remarkable Philosophy of Nonsense offers a sustained and important account of an area that is usually hastily dismissed. Using the resources of contemporary philosophy - notably Deleuze and Lyotard - he manages to bring out the importance of nonsense' - Andrew Benjamin, University of Warwick Why are we, and in particular why are philosophers and linguists, so fascinated with nonsense? Why do Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear appear in so many otherwise dull and dry academic books? This amusing, yet rigorous new


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Dickens's Great expectations
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ISBN: 0813159148 9780813159140 0813185289 Year: 2002 Publisher: Lexington University Press of Kentucky

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Dickens scholar Jerome Meckier's acclaimed Hidden Rivalries in Victorian Fiction examined fierce literary competition between leading novelists who tried to establish their credentials as realists by rewriting Dickens's novels. Here, Meckier argues that in Great Expectations, Dickens not only updated David Copperfield but also rewrote novels by Lever, Thackeray, Collins, Shelley, and Charlotte and Emily Brontë. He periodically revised his competitors' themes, characters, and incidents to discredit their novels as unrealistic fairy tales imbued with Cinderella motifs. Dickens darkened his fa

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