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Author : Enid Welsford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Fool written by Enid Welsford and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Enid Welsford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Fool written by Enid Welsford and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Robb
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042023406
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book Clowns, Fools and Picaros written by David Robb and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By its very nature the clown, as represented in art, is an interdisciplinary phenomenon. In whichever artform it appears - fiction, drama, film, photography or fine art - it carries the symbolic association of its usage in popular culture, be it ritual festivities, street theatre or circus. The clown, like its extended family of fools, jesters, picaros and tricksters, has a variety of functions all focussed around its status and image of being "other." Frequently a marginalized figure, it provides the foil for the shortcomings of dominant discourse or the absurdities of human behaviour. Clowns, Fools and Picaros represents the latest research on the clown, bringing together for the first time studies from four continents: Europe, America, Africa and Asia. It attempts to ascertain commonalities, overlaps and differences between artistic expressions of the "clownesque" from these various continents and genres, and above all, to examine the role of the clown in our cultures today. This volume is of interest for scholars of political and comic drama, film and visual art as well as scholars of comparative literature and anthropology.
Author : Joanne R. Gilbert
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814328033
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)
Download or read book Performing Marginality written by Joanne R. Gilbert and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An academic study of stand-up comedy performed by females. This will aid in the understanding of power structures in our society.
Author : Irving Ribner
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415353267
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)
Download or read book Patterns in Shakespearian Tragedy written by Irving Ribner and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring man's relation to his universe and the way in which it seeks to postulate a moral order, this title identifies Shakespeare's development of this concept and the ways in which he presented it as a growth in moral vision.
Author : Vicki K. Janik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313033579
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fools and Jesters in Literature, Art, and History written by Vicki K. Janik and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1998-05-21 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesters and fools have existed as important and consistent figures in nearly all cultures. Sometimes referred to as clowns, they are typological characters who have conventional roles in the arts, often using nonsense to subvert existing order. But fools are also a part of social and religious history, and they frequently play key roles in the rituals that support and shape a society's system of beliefs. This reference book includes alphabetically arranged entries for approximately 60 fools and jesters from a wide range of cultures. Included are entries for performers from American popular culture, such as Woody Allen, Mae West, Charlie Chaplin, and the Marx Brothers; literary characters, such as Shakespeare's Falstaff, Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, and Singer's Gimpel; and cultural and mythological figures, such as India's Birbal, the American circus clown, the Native American Coyote, Taishu Engeki of Japan, Hephaestus, Loki the Norse fool, schlimiels and schlimazels, and the drag queen. The entries, written by expert contributors, are critical as well as informative. Each begins with a biographical, artistic, religious, or historical background section, which places the subject within a larger cultural and historical context. A description and analysis follow. This section may include a discussion of the fool's appearance, gender role, ethical and moral roles, social function, and relationship to such themes as nature, time, and mortality. The entry then discusses the critical reception of the subject and concludes with an extensive bibliography of general works.
Author : Graham Chainey
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521476812
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Literary History of Cambridge written by Graham Chainey and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1995-07-27 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the first full account of Cambridge's rich literary associations over five centuries.
Author : Patrick Vincent
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1108497063
Total Pages : 687 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cambridge History of European Romantic Literature written by Patrick Vincent and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-09 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining Romanticism's pan-European circulation of people, ideas, and texts, this history re-analyses the period and Britain's place in it.
Author : Horacio Chiong Rivero
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820471327
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Rise of Pseudo-historical Fiction written by Horacio Chiong Rivero and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fray Antonio de Guevara (1482-1545), the most prolific writer of pseudo-historical prose in sixteenth-century Spain, was named official chronicler by Emperor Charles V in 1526. Despite his title, Guevara never wrote a conventional history. A master of fictional semblance, Guevara self-fashioned his own literary personae or masks - among them those of friar, bishop, chronicler, courtier, imperial counselor, and court buffoon. In his pseudo-historical prose, Guevara resoundingly uses the voices of both the novelist and the court buffoon, entertaining the reader with humor, wit, satire, and irony. Artistically manipulating both classical and contemporary history, Guevara innovatively creates a vast and labyrinthine web in which history and fiction form an inseparable hybrid: a pseudo-historical narrative that heralds the essay and the modern novel.
Author : Irina Metzler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136778233
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Social History of Disability in the Middle Ages written by Irina Metzler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it like to be disabled in the Middle Ages? How did people become disabled? Did welfare support exist? This book discusses social and cultural factors affecting the lives of medieval crippled, deaf, mute and blind people, those nowadays collectively called "disabled." Although the word did not exist then, many of the experiences disabled people might have today can already be traced back to medieval social institutions and cultural attitudes. This volume informs our knowledge of the topic by investigating the impact medieval laws had on the social position of disabled people, and conversely, how people might become disabled through judicial actions; ideas of work and how work could both cause disability through industrial accidents but also provide continued ability to earn a living through occupational support networks; the disabling effects of old age and associated physical deteriorations; and the changing nature of attitudes towards welfare provision for the disabled and the ambivalent role of medieval institutions and charity in the support and care of disabled people.
