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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.
Humorous stories, American. --- Domestic fiction, American. --- Satire, American. --- Fables, American. --- American fables --- American satire --- American wit and humor --- American domestic fiction --- American fiction --- American humorous stories
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Satire, Latin. --- Latin satire --- Latin wit and humor --- Rome --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy)
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378.18:82 --- Studenten: statuut. Maatschappelijke problemen van studenten-:-Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap --- American fiction --- College stories, American --- College stories, English --- Community in literature. --- English fiction --- Ethics in literature. --- Literature and society --- Satire, American --- Satire, English --- Universities and colleges in literature. --- History and criticism. --- 378.18:82 Studenten: statuut. Maatschappelijke problemen van studenten-:-Literatuur. Algemene literatuurwetenschap --- History and criticism
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Faith in literature. --- Theology in literature. --- Religion in literature. --- Rationalism in literature. --- Belief and doubt in literature. --- Verse satire, American --- Christian poetry, American --- Freethinkers --- Christianity and literature --- Religion in drama --- Religion in poetry --- American verse satire --- American poetry --- Free thinkers --- Rationalists --- Literature and Christianity --- Literature --- Christian literature --- History and criticism. --- History --- Chauncy, Charles, --- Dwight, Timothy, --- In literature. --- T. W., --- W., T., --- Chauncey, Charles,
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Minne, Richard
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Journalisme
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Journalistiek
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Littérature néerlandaise
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Nederlandse letterkunde
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Van den Berghe, Frits
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Flemish wit and humor.
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Humour flamand
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Satire
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Socialistische pers
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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.
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
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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.
Fiction --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric, Ancient. --- Satire, Latin --- Technique. --- History --- History and criticism. --- -Narration (Rhetoric) --- -Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Latin satire --- Latin wit and humor --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Technique --- History and criticism --- Philosophy --- Petronius Arbiter --- -Petron --- Pétrone, T. --- Petronio --- Petronio Arbitro --- Petronio, Caio --- Petronio, Cayo --- Petronius --- Petronius Arbiter, --- Petronius Arbiter, Titus --- Petronius, Gaius --- Petronius, Titus --- Rome --- -In literature --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- Ancient rhetoric --- Classical languages --- Greek language --- Greek rhetoric --- Latin language --- Latin rhetoric --- Fiction writing --- Writing, Fiction --- Authorship --- Petronius Arbiter. --- Petron --- Maderna, Bruno. --- In literature. --- Petronio Árbitro --- Petronius, Caius --- Petronius, Gaius Titus --- Pétrone --- Arts and Humanities
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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.
Iambic poetry, Greek --- History and criticism. --- Callimachus. --- History and criticism --- Poésie iambique grecque --- Histoire et critique --- Hipponax, --- alexandria. --- archilochus. --- biography. --- callimachus. --- classicism. --- eristic dialogue. --- ethics. --- fable. --- folklore. --- fragmentary poems. --- greece. --- greek poetry. --- greek. --- hellenism. --- hipponax. --- iam. --- iambic genre. --- iambic poetry. --- iambic poets. --- invective verse. --- literary criticism. --- literature. --- myth. --- persona loquens. --- poetic form. --- poetic voice. --- poetry. --- satire. --- social commentary. --- third century.
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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
English literature --- anno 1800-1899 --- Littérature anglaise --- --XIXe s., --- Nonsense --- --Carroll, Lewis pseudonyme de Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge (1832-1898) --- Œuvre --- --Langage --- --Philosophie --- --Nonsense literature, English --- 5340 --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc --- 820-7 --- 820 "18" --- Engelse literatuur: humor; satire --- Engelse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- 820 "18" Engelse literatuur--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- 820-7 Engelse literatuur: humor; satire --- Nonsense literature, English --- English nonsense literature --- Nonsense literature, English, [etc.] --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- History and criticism&delete& --- --Carroll, Lewis, --- Theory, etc. --- XIXe s., 1801-1900 --- Langage --- Philosophie --- Nonsense literature, English - History and criticism - Theory, etc --- English literature - 19th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc --- Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 --- LITTERATURE ANGLAISE --- NON-SENS (PHILOSOPHIE) --- LITTERATURE NONSENSIQUE (NON-SENS) --- 19E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- THEORIE, ETC.
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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
Parody. --- Cinderella (Legendary character) --- Tragicomedy --- English literature --- Cinderella (Tale) --- Tales --- English fiction --- Comic literature --- Literature, Comic --- Travesty --- Satire --- Burlesque (Literature) --- Caricature --- Civilization, Arab --- Cinderilla (Tale) --- Folk tales --- Folktales --- Folk literature --- History and criticism. --- Arab influences. --- Dickens, Charles, --- Morell, Charles, --- Dickens, Charles --- Dikensi, Čʻarlz, --- Dickens, Karol, --- Dikens, Charlz, --- Ti-keng-ssu, --- Digengsi, --- Dikkens, Charlz, --- Dikensas, Čarlzas, --- Ṭikkan̲s, Cārls, --- Ṭikkan̲cu, Cārlacu, --- Ṭikkan̲s, Cārlas, --- Диккенс, Чарлз, --- דיקינס, צ׳רלס, --- דיקנס, ַ צ׳רלז --- דיקנס, טשרלס --- דיקנס, צ׳רלז, --- דיקנס, צ׳רלס --- דיקנס, צ׳רלס, --- דיקענס, טש --- דיקענס, טשארלז --- דיקענס, טשארלז, --- דיקענס, טש., --- דיקקענס, טשארלז --- טשרלס, דיקנס --- チャールズ.ディケンズ, --- 狄更斯查尔斯, --- Boz, --- Sparks, Timothy, --- Contemporaries. --- Knowledge --- Folklore.
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