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Book Who s who in Colored America

Download or read book Who s who in Colored America written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Only a Joke Can Save Us

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  • Author : Todd McGowan
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 2017-09-15
  • ISBN : 0810135825
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Only a Joke Can Save Us written by Todd McGowan and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only a Joke Can Save Us presents an innovative and comprehensive theory of comedy. Using a wealth of examples from high and popular culture and with careful attention to the treatment of humor in philosophy, Todd McGowan locates the universal source of comedy in the interplay of the opposing concepts lack and excess. After reviewing the treatment of comedy in the work of philosophers as varied as Aristotle, G. W. F. Hegel, Sigmund Freud, Henri Bergson, and Alenka Zupancic, McGowan, working in a psychoanalytic framework, demonstrates that comedy results from the deployment of lack and excess, whether in contrast, juxtaposition, or interplay. Illustrating the power and flexibility of this framework with analyses of films ranging from Buster Keaton and Marx Brothers classics to Dr. Strangelove and Groundhog Day, McGowan shows how humor can reveal gaps in being and gaps in social order. Scholarly yet lively and readable, Only a Joke Can Save Us is a groundbreaking examination of the enigmatic yet endlessly fascinating experience of humor and comedy.

Book Poetry My Arse

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  • Author : Brendan Kennelly
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Poetry My Arse written by Brendan Kennelly and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kennelly followed his shocking epic poem Cromwell with the even more notorious Book of Judas, which topped the Irish bestsellers list. This new piece of mischief out -- Judases Cromwell, sinking its teeth into the pants of poetry itself. Here, the author plays devil's advocate, exploring the 'poetryworlds' of one Ace de Horner who is slowly going blind. Helped by his uglyjoe dog, Kanooce, and by a woman, Janey Mary, Ace thinks he is connecting the fragments of his life a little more convincingly. Not so! As the poem digs into Ace's vanity, visions, fantasies, failures, dedication and absurdity, the reader is aware of Ace's frustration in his efforts to relate to poetry, to his jocular distortions of language and to his pained perspective on the world.

Book The Book of Judas

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  • Author : Brendan Kennelly
  • Publisher : Dufour Editions
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN : 9781852241711
  • Pages : 395 pages

Download or read book The Book of Judas written by Brendan Kennelly and published by Dufour Editions. This book was released on 1991 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brendan Kennelly's Book of Judas, a 400-page epic poem in twelve parts, became the number one bestselling book in Ireland. As well as receiving rapturous reviews, Brendan Kennelly won the Sunday Independent/Irish Life Award for the book and earned the ultimate accolade of 'Kerryman of the Year'. Not merely lost but irredeemable, Kennelly's bitterly articulate Judas speaks, dreams and murmurs - of past and present, history and myth, good and evil, of men, women and children, and of course money - until we realise that the unspeakable perpetrator of the apparently unthinkable, in penetrating the icy reaches of his own world, becomes a sly, many-voiced critic of ours. The full-sized Book of Judas is no longer available, usurped by The Little Book of Judas, a distillation of that literary monster, purged to its traitorous essence.

Book The Man Made of Rain

Download or read book The Man Made of Rain written by Brendan Kennelly and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new long poem is a departure for Kennelly, a visionary work written out of the body, out of the self, out of the shadowlands between life and death."--Cover.

Book Rifles and Rifle Practice

Download or read book Rifles and Rifle Practice written by Cadmus Marcellus Wilcox and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Iowa Educational Directory

Download or read book Iowa Educational Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cabin John

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  • Author : Judith Welles
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780615211176
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Cabin John written by Judith Welles and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Irish Voice in America

Download or read book The Irish Voice in America written by Charles Fanning and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Charles Fanning has written the first general account of the origins and development of a literary tradition among American writers of Irish birth or background who have explored the Irish immigrant or ethnic experience in works of fiction. The result is a portrait of the evolving fictional self-consciousness of an immigrant group over a span of 250 years. Fanning traces the roots of Irish-American writing back to the eighteenth century and carries it forward through the traumatic years of the Famine to the present time with an intensely productive period in the twentieth century beginning with James T. Farrell. Later writers treated in depth include Edwin O'Connor, Elizabeth Cullinan, Maureen Howard, and William Kennedy. Along the way he places in the historical record many all but forgotten writers, including the prolific Mary Ann Sadlier. The Irish Voice in America is not only a highly readable contribution to American literary history but also a valuable reference to many writers and their works. For this second edition, Fanning has added a chapter that covers the fiction of the past decade. He argues that contemporary writers continue to draw on Ireland as a source and are important chroniclers of the modern American experience.

Book Fortification and Its Discontents from Shakespeare to Milton

Download or read book Fortification and Its Discontents from Shakespeare to Milton written by Adam N. McKeown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fortification and Its Discontents from Shakespeare to Milton gives new coherence to the literature of the early modern Atlantic world by placing it in the context of radical changes to urban space following the Italian War of 1494-1498. The new walled city that emerged in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries on both sides of the Atlantic provided an outlet for a wide range of humanistic fascinations with urban design, composition, and community organization, but it also promoted centrality of control and subordinated the human environment to military functionality. Examining William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, John Winthrop, and John Milton, this volume shows how the literature of England and New England explores and challenges the new walled city as England struggled to define the sprawling metropolis of London, translate English urban spaces into Ireland and North America, and, later, survive a long civil war.

Book Longman Phrasal Verbs Dictionary

Download or read book Longman Phrasal Verbs Dictionary written by Longman (Firm : New York, N.Y.) and published by Pearson PTR Interactive. This book was released on 2000 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5,000 phrasal verbs, including new ones from computing, business, and the Internet. Unique Phrasal Verbs Activator® helps learners choose the right phrasal verb for the context. Clear grammar patterns show how to use phrasal verbs.

Book Walking with Purpose

Download or read book Walking with Purpose written by Lisa Brenninkmeyer and published by Wellspring. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does your life feel out of control? Do you feel that you are doing so many things that you are doing none of them well? Lisa Brenninkmeyer understands how it feels when life is stuck on the spin cycle. As a mother of seven, she knows we don't just need to be told what kind of women we should be. We need some help getting there. Drawing from her own experience of balancing marriage, motherhood, and work inside and outside the home, Lisa helps you uncover the key to living a busy life with inner calm. What's the secret? Identifying key priorities, and doing first what matters most. Once in awhile, things may seem as if they're under control, but we want to walk with purpose regardless of our circumstances. God wants us to daily experience the joy and contentment that comes from knowing we have given our all to what he considers most important. The abundant and purposeful life we were created to live is just around the corner.

Book The Answer to The Lament of the Irish Emigrant

Download or read book The Answer to The Lament of the Irish Emigrant written by Thomas Bissell and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Trance Formation of America

Download or read book Trance Formation of America written by Cathy O'Brien and published by Reality Marketing Incorporated. This book was released on 1995 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the documented autobiography of a victim of government mind control. Cathy O'Brien is the only vocal and recovered survivor of the Central Intelligence Agency's MK-Ultra Project Monarch mind control operation. Chiseled deep into the white stone of the CIA's Langley, Virginia headquarters is a partial verse lifted from the Holy Bible and writings of Saint John...""and the truth shall set you free." This statement, like the agency, is total reality. The building that it is engraved upon houses the world's most successful manufacturer of lies to facilitate psychological warfare. The "Company" uses truth and technology as their raw materials to produce "pure" lies for control of you and America's allies.

Book Migration in Irish History 1607 2007

Download or read book Migration in Irish History 1607 2007 written by Patrick Fitzgerald and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migration - people moving in as immigrants, around as migrants, and out as emigrants - is a major theme of Irish history. This is the first book to offer both a survey of the last four centuries and an integrated analysis of migration, reflecting a more inclusive definition of the 'people of Ireland'.

Book Election Laws of Iowa

Download or read book Election Laws of Iowa written by Iowa and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: