Download or read book Laughing Awry written by Erik Gunderson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laughing Awry offers a comprehensive overview of key themes in the interpretation of the plays of Plautus, and explores the connections between deception, desire, slavery, genre, and audience. In doing so, it offers an account of the mechanisms of Plautus' humour and the uncomfortable origins of laughter, revealing how his dramas do not just play to but also work on the audience. The volume examines the whole corpus of Plautine plays, providing longer accounts of selected dramas and choice scenes. An emphasis on methodological and theoretical questions is maintained throughout, and particular attention is paid to the psychic life of humour and its relationship to questions of social power. Chapters discuss, among other topics, the problem of writing about humour, Plautus' reception by subsequent Roman authors, the plays' embedded social theory, the intersection of circuits of desire, laughter as a scandalous surfeit, and the sublime perversity of laughter. The volume asks what we are laughing at, why we laugh, and what this laughter means.
Download or read book Paw Clawdian Or The Roman Awry written by Francis Cowley Burnand and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roman Comedy written by Gesine Manuwald and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This contribution by Gesine Manuwald provides an introduction to all varieties of ‘Roman comedy’, including primarily fabula palliata (‘New Comedy’, as represented by Plautus and Terence) as well as fabula togata, fabula Atellana, mimus and pantomimus. It examines the major developments in the establishment of these dramatic genres, their main characteristics, the performance contexts for them in Republican Rome, and their reception. The presentation of the key facts is accompanied by a description of the influential turns and recent trends in scholarship on Roman comedy. The essay is designed for scholars, teachers and (graduate) students who have some familiarity with Roman literature and are looking for (further) orientation in the area of Roman comedy.
Download or read book Awry written by Chelsea Fine and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three curses. Two brothers. One love triangle. Sometimes love is meant to be. But sometimes...love is the death of you. Seventeen-year-old Scarlet has just died. Only, dying isn't unusual for a girl under a centuries old curse that left her semi-immortal. This time, though, she comes back to her current life instead of awaking in a new one, and she realizes her curse is changing. With the help of the immortal Archer brothers, Scarlet tries to piece together her life and break the curse before her impending death comes again. Fans of Once Upon A Time and The Vampire Diaries will fall head over heels for the desperate characters and endless mysteries in the Archers of Avalon Series! Praise for Anew, book one in the Archers of Avalon Series: "This book enraptured me. Original. Breath-taking. Heart-breaking...in all the right ways." -UtopYA Reviews "The love triangle in this book is the best kind of triangle...one where everyone believes and everyone loves and everyone suffers! The end left me wide-eyed, open-mouthed and longing desperately for the next book!" -The Book Hookup "Anew was so freaking good! The suspense, the passion, the chemistry, the love triangle, the fabulous writing, the best characters ever, the conclusion, (*deep breath*) OMG the conclusion...it was all WOW holy cow awesomeness. Anew was a completely original paranormal romance." -Reading, Eating & Dreaming Reviews "Talk about one crazy, complicated love triangle! Chelsea Fine sure knows how to pull heartstrings. At the end I yelled, 'Shut up! Ahhhhh! I seriously need the next book. RIGHT. NOW'." -Goodreads Reviewer "Amazing, beautiful book! I liked the idea of the plot - it's fresh and unique, I loved the characters, the pacing of the story was perfect and the ending promising! Great style of writing and nice humor! Just perfect! A must-read!!!" -Goodreads Reviewer
Download or read book The Sublime Seneca written by Erik Gunderson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Misreading Seneca -- Writing metaphysics -- The nature of Seneca -- The spectacle of ethics -- Losing Seneca -- The analytics of desire -- The last monster -- Conclusion: the metaphysics of Senecan morals -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Download or read book Plays written by Eugène Ionesco and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hot Flashes 101 Reasons to Laugh at Life written by Sue Langenberg and published by eBooks2go, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor writer Sue Langenberg has written a weekly humor column for more than ten years in various newspapers, often winning placement in HumorPress.com contests. In her book, "Hot Flashes," she has compiled 101 timely examples that represent one goofy hag's take on life using wry and sometimes edgy humor. She never forgot anything in her Boomer life that made her laugh, but rather stored it until the time was right. The stories begin as an ordinary observation of reality and rapidly turn into a wild ride full of laughs, all within some 600 words of wit that strike a chord with young, old, teen and like-hags. There is something to laugh about for everyone in her musings.
Download or read book Never Stop Laughing written by William Goodman, PhD and published by Author House. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highlights the varied benefits of humor and laughter to mind and body.
Download or read book A President is Born written by Fannie Hurst and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The son of Austrian immigrants grows up to a political career." Cf. Hanna, A. Mirror for the nation
Download or read book What Are You Laughing At written by Dan O'Shannon and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-07-05 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a comprehensive guide to all the variables that can come into play when we come into contact with comedy.
Download or read book Laughing Till It Hurts written by J. Randy Taraborrelli and published by Graymalkin Media. This book was released on 2021-05-09 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol Burnett is one of the few American comediennes to establish herself as an icon. Laughing Till It Hurts is the ultimate Carol Burnett biography. For eleven years The Carol Burnett Show proved a showcase for Burnett’s comic genius. Though extensive interviews with Carol’s friends, family, and co-workers, Taraborrelli traces her career from her formative years through her first marriage to fellow actor Don Saroyan, and her breakthrough role starring as the princess in George Abbott’s Once Upon a Mattress. Laughing Till It Hurts explores the darker side of the fame and pressures that it placed on Carol. As a result of her outspoken battles with the media and her personal ordeal with her daughters drug problems, Carol Burnett has metamorphized into a new woman—someone who not only knows how to be funny but is also uncompromisingly herself.
Download or read book Fairy Tale Awry written by Amber R. Hall and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pretty Funny written by Linda Mizejewski and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-03-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in comedy have traditionally been pegged as either "pretty" or "funny." Attractive actresses with good comic timing such as Katherine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, and Julia Roberts have always gotten plum roles as the heroines of romantic comedies and television sitcoms. But fewer women who write and perform their own comedy have become stars, and, most often, they've been successful because they were willing to be funny-looking, from Fanny Brice and Phyllis Diller to Lily Tomlin and Carol Burnett. In this pretty-versus-funny history, women writer-comedians—no matter what they look like—have ended up on the other side of "pretty," enabling them to make it the topic and butt of the joke, the ideal that is exposed as funny. Pretty/Funny focuses on Kathy Griffin, Tina Fey, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Cho, Wanda Sykes, and Ellen DeGeneres, the groundbreaking women comics who flout the pretty-versus-funny dynamic by targeting glamour, postfeminist girliness, the Hollywood A-list, and feminine whiteness with their wit and biting satire. Linda Mizejewski demonstrates that while these comics don't all identify as feminists or take politically correct positions, their work on gender, sexuality, and race has a political impact. The first major study of women and humor in twenty years, Pretty/Funny makes a convincing case that women's comedy has become a prime site for feminism to speak, talk back, and be contested in the twenty-first century.
Download or read book Laughing Stock written by Charles L. Morey and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: LAUGHING STOCK is a hilarious backstage farce and genuinely affectionate look into the world of the theatre. When The Playhouse, a rustic New England summer theatre, schedules a repertory season of Dracula , Hamlet and Ch
Download or read book When God Laughs with Us written by David L. McKenna and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lighten up! Most of us take ourselves too seriously. Christian leaders, in particular, are tempted by the position they hold, or the power they wield, to lose touch with their humanity, become arrogant, and alienate their followers. But what about our tendency to shoot ourselves in the foot, time and time again? Can we laugh at ourselves? David McKenna, a Christian college president, brings a lifetime of learning to this question. By confessing his own foibles and laughing at the ludicrous, he finds that God is laughing with him--not to ridicule, but to give the special grace that saves us from ourselves. The lessons are humbling when the laugh is on us, but they can lead to the discovery that a sense of humor is a partner with the witness of a joyful spirit. McKenna shows us by example how to lighten up and find God as we laugh at ourselves.
Download or read book Art and Laughter written by Sheri Klein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to take seriously (though not too seriously) the surprisingly neglected role of humour in art. "Art and Laughter" looks back to comic masters such as Hogarth and Daumier and to Dada, Surrealism and Pop Art, asking what makes us laugh and why. It explores the use of comedy in art from satire and irony to pun, parody and black and bawdy humour. Encouraging laughter in the hallowed space of the gallery, Sheri Klein praises the contemporary artist as 'clown' - often overlooked in favour of the role of artist as 'serious' commentator - and takes us on a tour of the comic work of Red Grooms, Cary Leibowitz, 'The Hairy Who', Richard Prince, Bruce Nauman, Jeff Koons, William Wegman, Vik Muniz, and many more. She seeks out those rare smiles in art - from the Mona Lisa onwards - and highlights too the pleasures of the cute, the camp and the downright kitsch.
Download or read book Ceilings and Dreams written by Paul Emmons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where is the space for dreaming in the twenty-first century? Lofty thoughts, like dreams, are born and live overhead, just as they have been represented in Renaissance paintings and modern cartoons. Ceilings are often repositories of stories, events and otherwise invisible oneiric narratives. Yet environments that inspire innovative thinking are dwindling as our world confronts enormous challenges, and almost all of our thinking, debating and decision-making takes place under endless ceiling grids. Quantitative research establishes that spaces with taller ceilings elicit broader, more creative thoughts. Today, ceilings are usually squat conduits of technology: they have become the blind spot of modern architecture. The twenty essays in this book look across cultures, places and ceilings over time to discover their potential to uplift the human spirit. Not just one building element among many, the ceiling is a key to unlock the architectural imagination. Ceilings and Dreams aims to correct this blind spot and encourages architects and designers, researchers and students, to look up through writings organized into three expansive categories: reveries, suspensions and inversions. The contributors contemplate the architecture of levity and the potential of the ceiling, once again, as a place for dreaming.
