Download or read book Between two stools written by Peter J. Smith and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, Between two stools investigates the representation of scatology – humorous, carnivalesque, satirical, damning and otherwise – in English literature from the middle ages to the eighteenth century. Smith contends that the ‘two stools’ stand for two broadly distinctive attitudes towards scatology. The first is a carnivalesque, merry, even hearty disposition, typified by the writings of Chaucer and Shakespeare. The second is self-disgust, an attitude characterised by withering misanthropy and hypochondria. Smith demonstrates how the combination of high and low cultures manifests the capacity to run canonical and carnivalesque together so that sanctioned and civilised artefacts and scatological humour frequently co-exist in the works under discussion, evidence of an earlier culture’s aptitude (now lost) to occupy a position between two stools. Of interest to cultural and literary historians, this ground-breaking study testifies to the arrival of scatology as an academic subject, at the same time recognising that it remains if not outside, then at least at the margins of conventional scholarship.

Download or read book Between Two Stools written by Rhoda Broughton and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Between Two Stools written by Jayavant Mallanah Shrinagesh and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of an Indian civil servant.

Download or read book A Dictionary of Proverbs written by Jennifer Speake and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-10-23 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique and authoritative dictionary contains over 1,100 of the most widely used proverbs in English and uses research from the Oxford English Corpus, the world's largest language databank. This edition has been revised and fully updated and includes numerous entirely new entries. It also features expanded coverage of foreign language proverbs currently in use in English. With an emphasis on examples of usage, including the earliest written evidence of its use, this A-Z guide provides a thorough - and fascinating - history for every entry. Arranged in A-Z format and with a useful thematic index, A Dictionary of Proverbs is ideal for browsing and perfectly suited for quick reference. Look up your old favourites, learn punchy new expressions to get your point across, and find the answer to that crossword clue. Seeing is believing: find proverbs relevant to every aspect of life in this entertaining and informative collection.

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Download or read book Imagining Virginia Woolf written by Maria DiBattista and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Answers the question, 'how does one read an author', by undertaking an experiment in critical biography. This book provides an original way of reading, one that captures with variety and subtlety the personality that exists only in Woolf's works and in the minds of her readers

Download or read book Investigation of Un American Propaganda Activities in the United States written by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 2202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Dictionary of Idiomatic English Phrases written by James Main Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Digital Idioms written by Лариса Шитова and published by Litres. This book was released on 2016-02-24 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Впервые собраны идиоматические выражения, содержащие числительные. Многочисленные образцы цифровой идиоматики сопровождаются переводом и подробным комментарием. Разнообразие примеров позволяет сгруппировать выражения по принципу количественных и порядковых числительных, а также по их разряду. Представляет интерес сам факт наличия числительных в английских идиомах, их множество и разнообразие.

Download or read book Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases written by Bartlett Jere Whiting and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p.B. J. Whiting savors proverbial expressions and has devoted much of his lifetime to studying and collecting them; no one knows more about British and American proverbs than he. The present volume, based upon writings in British North America from the earliest settlements to approximately 1820, complements his and Archer Taylor's Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880. It differs from that work and from other standard collections, however, in that its sources are primarily not "literary" but instead workaday writings - letters, diaries, histories, travel books, political pamphlets, and the like. The authors represent a wide cross-section of the populace, from scholars and statesmen to farmers, shopkeepers, sailors, and hunters. Mr. Whiting has combed all the obvious sources and hundreds of out-of-the-way publications of local journals and historical societies. This body of material, "because it covers territory that has not been extracted and compiled in a scholarly way before, can justly be said to be the most valuable of all those that Whiting has brought together," according to Albert B. Friedman. "What makes the work important is Whiting's authority: a proverb or proverbial phrase is what BJW thinks is a proverb or proverbial phrase. There is no objective operative definition of any value, no divining rod; his tact, 'feel, ' experience, determine what's the real thing and what is spurious."

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Download or read book A Menorah for Athena written by Stephen Fredman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PrefaceIntroduction: A Menorah for Athena 1. Call Him Charles 2. Immanence and Diaspora 3. Hebraism and Hellenism 4. Sincerity and Objectivism Afterforward: Trilling and GinsbergChronology Notes Works Cited Index Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Download or read book Fun with Proverbs written by John Smithback and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proverbs are wise old sayings or short, frank expressions that stick in our minds and help us to express ourselves. But whether it is old as the hills or was born yesterday, this humorously illustrated book is an enlightening guide to 260 proverbs that enrich the English language.

Download or read book Contesting British Chinese Culture written by Ashley Thorpe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first text to address British Chinese culture. It explores British Chinese cultural politics in terms of national and international debates on the Chinese diaspora, race, multiculture, identity and belonging, and transnational ‘Chineseness’. Collectively, the essays look at how notions of ‘British Chinese culture’ have been constructed and challenged in the visual arts, theatre and performance, and film, since the mid-1980s. They contest British Chinese invisibility, showing how practice is not only heterogeneous, but is forged through shifting historical and political contexts; continued racialization, the currency of Orientalist stereotypes and the possibility of their subversion; the policies of institutions and their funding strategies; and dynamic relationships with transnationalisms. The book brings a fresh perspective that makes both an empirical and theoretical contribution to the study of race and cultural production, whilst critically interrogating the very notion of British Chineseness.