Joe Miller's jests or, The wits vade-mecum. Lond., 1739
Author : Joe Miller
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Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 1739
Category : English wit and humor
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Author : Joe Miller
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Page : 80 pages
File Size : 42,72 MB
Release : 1739
Category : English wit and humor
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Author : Joe Miller
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 41,13 MB
Release : 1862
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Author : Lydia Goehr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 28,94 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Arts
ISBN : 0197572448
A profoundly original philosophical detective story tracing the surprising history of an anecdote ranging across centuries of traditions, disciplines, and ideas Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread is a work of passages taken, written, painted, and sung. It offers a genealogy of liberty through a micrology of wit. It follows the long history of a short anecdote. Commissioned to depict the biblical passage through the Red Sea, a painter covered over a surface with red paint, explaining thereafter that the Israelites had already crossed over and that the Egyptians were drowned. Clearly, not all you see is all you get. Who was the painter and who the first teller of the tale? Designed as a philosophical detective story, Red Sea-Red Square-Red Thread follows the extraordinary number of thinkers and artists who have used the Red Sea anecdote to make so much more than a merely anecdotal point. Leading the large cast are the philosophers, Arthur Danto and Søren Kierkegaard, the poet and playwright, Henri Murger, the opera composer, Giacomo Puccini, and the painter and print-maker, William Hogarth. Strange companions perhaps, until their use of the anecdote is shown as working its extraordinary passage through so many cosmopolitan cities of art and capital. What about the anecdote brings Danto's philosophy of art into conversation with Kierkegaard's stages on life's way, with Murger and Puccini's la vie de bohème, and with Hogarth's modern moral pictures? Lydia Goehr explores these narratives of emancipation in philosophy, theology, politics, and the arts. What has the passage of the Israelites to do with the Egyptians who, by many gypsy names, came to be branded as bohemians when arriving in France from the German lands of Bohemia? What have Moses and monotheism to do with the history of monism and the monochrome? And what sort of thread connects a sea to a square when each is so purposefully named red?
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Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Page : 842 pages
File Size : 41,31 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
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Page : 1034 pages
File Size : 45,46 MB
Release : 1883
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Page : 302 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 1874
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Author : Sir William Tite
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Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 1874
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Author : William Tite
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Page : 308 pages
File Size : 12,13 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Auction catalogs
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Author : William Tite
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 26,82 MB
Release : 2023-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3382507307
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.