Satires and Profanities
Author : James Thomson
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Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Christianity
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Author : James Thomson
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Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Christianity
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Author : Aaron Matz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139488317
As nineteenth-century realism became more and more intrepid in its pursuit of describing and depicting everyday life, it blurred irrevocably into the caustic and severe mode of literature better named satire. Realism's task of portraying the human became indistinguishable from satire's directive to castigate the human. Introducing an entirely new way of thinking about realism and the Victorian novel, Aaron Matz refers to the fusion of realism and satire as 'satirical realism': it is a mode in which our shared folly and error are so entrenched in everyday life, and so unchanging, that they need no embellishment when rendered in fiction. Focusing on the novels of Eliot, Hardy, Gissing, and Conrad, and the theater of Ibsen, Matz argues that it was the transformation of Victorian realism into satire that granted it immense moral authority, but that led ultimately to its demise.
Author : Henry S. Salt
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Page : 264 pages
File Size : 35,20 MB
Release : 1888
Category : American literature
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Author : Melissa Mohr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0199742677
A humorous, trenchant and fascinating examination of how Western culture's taboo words have evolved over the millennia
Author : Annie Besant
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Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,83 MB
Release : 1884
Category : Free thought
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Author : William David Schaefer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 13,57 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520333632
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967.
Author : Frederick Wilse Bateson
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 1940
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Page : 646 pages
File Size : 43,99 MB
Release : 1886
Category : English periodicals
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Author : Adam Mansbach
Publisher : Random House
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 24,66 MB
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385520425
The ruthlessly engrossing and beautifully rendered story of the Brodskys, a family of artists who realize, too late, one elemental truth: Creation’s necessary consequence is destruction. Each member of the mercurial clan in Adam Mansbach’s bold new novel faces the impossible choice between the people they love and the art that sustains them. Tristan Brodsky, sprung from the asphalt of the depression-era Bronx, goes on to become one of the swaggering Jewish geniuses who remakes American culture while slowly suffocating his poet wife, who harbors secrets of her own. Nina Hricek, a driven young Czech photographer escapes from behind the Iron Curtain with a group of black musicians only to find herself trapped yet again, this time in a doomed love affair. And finally, Tris Freedman, grandson of Tristan and lover of Nina, a graffiti artist and unanchored revolutionary, cannibalizes his family history to feed his muse. In the end, their stories converge and the survival of each requires the sacrifice of another. The End of the Jews offers all the rewards of the traditional family epic, but Mansbach’s irreverent wit and rich, kinetic prose shed new light on the genre. It runs on its own chronometer, somersaulting gracefully through time and space, interweaving the tales of these three protagonists who, separated by generation and geography, are leading parallel lives.
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Page : 806 pages
File Size : 29,42 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Great Britain
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