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In this book, James Brassett builds on his prize-winning research to demonstrate how British comedy can provide intimate and vital understandings of the everyday politics of globalization in Britain.
Author : James Brassett
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 31,62 MB
Release : 2024-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1529208467
In this book, James Brassett builds on his prize-winning research to demonstrate how British comedy can provide intimate and vital understandings of the everyday politics of globalization in Britain.
Author : Brassett, James
Publisher : Bristol University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 17,42 MB
Release : 2021-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1529208459
What can comedy tell us about the politics of a nation? In this book, James Brassett builds on his prize-winning research to demonstrate how British comedy can provide intimate and vital understandings of the everyday politics of globalization in Britain. The book explores British comedy and Britain’s global politics from post-war imperial decline through to its awkward embrace of globalization, examining a wide variety of comedic mediums, such as the popular television show The Office and the online satire The Daily Mash. Touching on issues such as empire, the class system and capitalism, the author demonstrates how comedy offers valuable insights on how global market life is experienced, mediated, contested and accommodated.
Author : Brassett, James
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 2021-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1529208483
What can comedy tell us about the politics of a nation? In this book, James Brassett builds on his prize-winning research to demonstrate how British comedy can provide intimate and vital understandings of the everyday politics of globalization in Britain. The book explores British comedy and Britain’s global politics from post-war imperial decline through to its awkward embrace of globalization, examining a wide variety of comedic mediums, such as the popular television show The Office and the online satire The Daily Mash. Touching on issues such as empire, the class system and capitalism, the author demonstrates how comedy offers valuable insights on how global market life is experienced, mediated, contested and accommodated.
Author : Hans Steinmüller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 26,66 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317373952
Unprecedented social change in China has intensified the contradictions faced by ordinary people. In everyday life, people find themselves caught between official and popular discourses, encounter radically different representations of China's past and its future, and draw on widely diverse moral frameworks. This volume explores irony and cynicism as part of the social life of local communities in China, and specifically in relation to the contemporary Chinese state. It collects ethnographies of irony and cynicism in social action, written by a group of anthropologists who specialise in China. They use the lenses of irony and cynicism - broadly defined to include resignation, resistance, humour, ambiguity and dialogue - to look anew at the social, political and moral contradictions faced by Chinese people. The various contributions are concerned with both the interpretation of intentions in everyday social action and discourse, and the broader theoretical consequences of such interpretations for an understanding of the Chinese state. As a study of irony and cynicism in modern China and their implications on the social and political aspects of everyday life, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of social and cultural anthropology, Chinese culture and society, and Chinese politics.
Author : Dr. Shiva Kant Tripathi
Publisher : Thakur Publication Private Limited
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 27,96 MB
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Education
ISBN :
Presenting the engrossing poetry book in English meant especially for the second semester of B.A. studies at UP State (NEP). Discover the depths of human emotions, subtle cultural differences, and lyrical expressions in this carefully chosen collection, which will allow you to fully immerse yourself in the vast world of literary talent. This extensive poetry collection has been painstakingly designed to correspond with the B.A. syllabus.English literature for a second semester in accordance with the National Education Policy (NEP) that Uttar Pradesh State has put into place. It provides a smooth learning experience and deepens appreciation for the beauty of poem, making it a valuable tool for educators, students, and poetry lovers alike. The book is appropriate for Purvanchal University Jaunpur students and is produced by Thakur Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Author : Morton Gurewitch
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814325131
The Ironic Temper and the Comic Imagination examines and illuminates the role which the ironic temper plays in the creation of complex literary comedy. The book focuses on ironic comedy, though not of the kind that is characterized by the surprises and shocks, the incongruities and reversals, of circumstantial irony. Circumstantial—or situational—irony cannot stand alone; it serves, for example, the aggressive functions of satire, or the irrational impulses of farce, or the benevolent, whimsical, or pain-defeating energies of humor.
Author : D. C. Muecke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1315388324
First published in 1970 and revised in 1982, this work provides a critical overview of the concept of irony in literary criticism. After establishing the relationship of the ironical and the non-ironical, it summarises the history of the concept of irony, before isolating and discussing its basic aspects and the variable features that determine its nature, effect and quality. The book will be a useful resource for those studying irony and English Literature.
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Page : 1126 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
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Author : Hans Steinmüller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,14 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317373960
Unprecedented social change in China has intensified the contradictions faced by ordinary people. In everyday life, people find themselves caught between official and popular discourses, encounter radically different representations of China's past and its future, and draw on widely diverse moral frameworks. This volume explores irony and cynicism as part of the social life of local communities in China, and specifically in relation to the contemporary Chinese state. It collects ethnographies of irony and cynicism in social action, written by a group of anthropologists who specialise in China. They use the lenses of irony and cynicism - broadly defined to include resignation, resistance, humour, ambiguity and dialogue - to look anew at the social, political and moral contradictions faced by Chinese people. The various contributions are concerned with both the interpretation of intentions in everyday social action and discourse, and the broader theoretical consequences of such interpretations for an understanding of the Chinese state. As a study of irony and cynicism in modern China and their implications on the social and political aspects of everyday life, this book will be of huge interest to students and scholars of social and cultural anthropology, Chinese culture and society, and Chinese politics.
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher : Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :