Download or read book Reflexions upon Ridicule or what it is that makes a man ridiculous and the means to avoid it Reflections upon the Politeness of Manners Being the second part of the Reflexions upon Ridicule Translated from the French of J B Morvan de Bellegarde written by and published by . This book was released on 1727 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflections Upon Ridicule Or What it is that Makes a Man Ridiculous and the Means to Avoid it written by Bellegarde (M. l'abbé de, Jean Baptiste Morvan) and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflexions Upon Ridicule written by Bellegarde (abbé de, Jean Baptiste Morvan) and published by . This book was released on 1706 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflexions Upon Ridicule Or What it is that Makes a Man Ridiculous and the Means to Avoid it written by Bellegarde (M. l'abbé de, Jean Baptiste Morvan) and published by . This book was released on 1717 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflexions Upon Ridicule written by Bellegarde (M. l'abbé de, Jean Baptiste Morvan) and published by . This book was released on 1739 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ridicule Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England written by Roger D. Lund and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing for the importance of wit beyond its use as a literary device, Roger D. Lund outlines the process by which writers in Restoration and eighteenth-century England struggled to define an appropriate role for wit in the public sphere. He traces its unpredictable effects in works of philosophy, religious pamphlets, and legal writing and examines what happens when literary wit is deliberately used to undermine the judgment of individuals and to destabilize established institutions of church and state. Beginning with a discussion of wit's association with deception, Lund suggests that suspicion of wit and the imagination emerges in attacks on the Restoration stage, in the persecution of The Craftsman, and in criticism directed at Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan and works by writers like the Earl of Shaftesbury, Thomas Woolston, and Thomas Paine. Anxieties about wit, Lund shows, were in part responsible for attempts to suppress new communal venues such as coffee houses and clubs and for the Church's condemnation of the seditious pamphlets made possible by the lapse of the Licensing Act in 1695. Finally, the establishment's conviction that wit, ridicule, satire, and innuendo are subversive rhetorical forms is glaringly at play in attempts to use libel trials to translate the fear of wit as a metaphorical transgression of public decorum into an actual violation of the civil code.
Download or read book English Clandestine Satire 1660 1702 written by Harold Love and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004-08-05 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When late seventeenth-century readers wanted to inform themselves about happenings at the centres of power and fashion they had no newspapers or gossip columns to fall back on. Instead they turned to lampoons - frank, malicious, and often highly indecent accounts in verse of the real or fabricated goings on of the court and ruling elite. Harold Love presents the first comprehensive account of the thousands of lampoons and more serious `state poems' that survive from RestorationEngland and their impact on the life of the nation and the literary practice of satire.
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Download or read book A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain written by Samuel Halkett and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Un Civilizing Processes written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of the supposedly ‘civilized’ German nation into the ‘barbarism’ of Hitler’s Third Reich has cast a long shadow over interpretations of German culture and society. In the remarkable work of Norbert Elias, himself a refugee from Nazi Germany, a deep concern with the distinctiveness of ‘the Germans’ is linked with an ambitious attempt to work out more general relations between broad historical processes – patterns of state formation, changing social structures – and the character of the individual self, as evidenced in changing thresholds of shame and embarrassment. In critical engagement with Elias’s notion of the ‘civilizing process’, the essays collected here explore moments of excess and transgression, moments when the very boundaries of ‘civilization’ are both constructed and challenged. Inter-disciplinary contributions – on topics ranging from medieval laughter, cursing and swearing, through to music, the bourgeois self, and aspects of modern violence – highlight the complexity of inter-relations between the individual imagination and creativity, on the one hand, and the brute facts of political power and social structural inequalities, on the other; and develop new insights into the changing patterns of culture and society in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present.
Download or read book The History of the Works of the Learned Or An Impartial Account of Books Lately Printed in All Parts of Europe written by and published by . This book was released on 1706 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Duel in Early Modern England written by Markku Peltonen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguments about the place and practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. The distinguished intellectual historian Markku Peltonen examines this debate, and show how the moral and ideological status of duelling was discussed within a much larger cultural context of courtesy, civility and politeness. The advocates of the duel, following Italian and French examples, contended that it maintained and enhanced politeness; its critics by contrast increasingly severed duelling from civility, and this separation became part of a vigorous attempt in the late seventeenth century and beyond to redefine civility, politeness and indeed the nature and evolution of Englishness. To understand the duel is to understand much more fully some crucial issues in the cultural and ideological history of Stuart England, and Markku Peltonen's study will thus engage the attention of a very wide audience of historians and cultural and literary scholars.
Download or read book A Catalogue of a Curious and Valuable Collection of Books in Various Languages and Classes of Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia with an Account of the Institution Charters Laws and Regulations written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue Of The Books Belonging To The Library Company Of Philadelphia To Which Is Prefixed A Short Account Of The Institution With The Charter Laws And Regulations written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia Religion written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A catalogue of the books belonging to the Library company of Philadelphia written by Library company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
