Manx Land
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Page : 15 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 187?
Category : Isle of Man
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Page : 15 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 187?
Category : Isle of Man
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Page : 72 pages
File Size : 43,94 MB
Release : 1884
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Author : Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 19,31 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Fiction
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In this study, which is first of all a folk-lore study, we pursue principally an anthropo-psychological method of interpreting the Celtic belief in fairies, though we do not hesitate now and then to call in the aid of philology; and we make good use of the evidence offered by mythologies, religions, metaphysics, and physical sciences.
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,35 MB
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004336613
This volume highlights humour’s crucial role in shaping historical re-visions of the long nineteenth century, through modes ranging from subtle irony, camp excess, ribald farce, and aesthetic parody to blackly comic narrative games. It analyses neo-Victorian humour’s politicisation, its ideological functions and ethical implications across varied media, including fiction, drama, film, webcomics, and fashion. Contemporary humour maps the assumed distance between postmodernity and its targeted nineteenth-century referents only to repeatedly collapse the same in a seemingly self-defeating nihilistic project. This collection explores how neo-Victorian humour generates empathy and effective socio-political critique, dispensing symbolic justice, but also risks recycling the past’s invidious ideologies under the politically correct guise of comic debunking, even to the point of negating laughter itself. "This rich and innovative collection invites us to reflect on the complex and various deployments of humour in neo-Victorian texts, where its consumers may wish at times that they could swallow back the laughter a scene or event provokes. It covers a range of approaches to humour utilised by neo-Victorian writers, dramatists, graphic novelists and filmmakers – including the deliberately and pompously unfunny, the traumatic, the absurd, the ribald, and the frankly distasteful – producing a richly satisfying anthology of innovative readings of ‘canonical’ neo-Victorian texts as well as those which are potential generic outliers. The collection explores what is funny in the neo-Victorian and who we are laughing at – the Victorians, as we like to imagine them, or ourselves, in ways we rarely acknowledge? This is a celebration of the parodic playfulness of a wide range of texts, from fiction to fashion, whilst offering a trenchant critique of the politics of postmodern laughter that will appeal to those working in adaptation studies, gender and queer studies, as well as literary and cultural studies more generally." - Prof. Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania, Australia
Author : William Henry Smyth
Publisher : London : Blackie and son
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 1867
Category : Military art and science
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Author : Grady McWhiney
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0817304584
A History Book Club Alternate Selection. "A controversial and provocative study of the fundamental differences that shaped the South ... fun to read", -- History Book Club Review
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Page : 730 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Commerce
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Author : John Gregorson Campbell
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Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,74 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Ballads, Scottish Gaelic
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Author : Frances Simpson
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Page : 450 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 1903
Category : Cats
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Author : Guy Davenport
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 34,76 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781567920802
In the 40 essays that constitute this collection, Guy Davenport, one of America's major literary critics, elucidates a range of literary history, encompassing literature, art, philosophy and music, from the ancients to the grand old men of modernism.