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Literary Wit
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Author : Bruce Michelson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Literary Wit written by Bruce Michelson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Humor categories.
"This book offers a fresh examination of literary wit as a distinct variety of discourse - one that is fundamentally different from wit, humor, and laughter in nonliterary contexts. Bruce Michelson moves beyond outmoded assumptions and canonical authorities to explore how wit can transform fiction, plays, and poetry, providing "a fire that keeps our imaginative literature hot
Literary Wit And Wisdom
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Author : Richard Benson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2016-06-09
Literary Wit And Wisdom written by Richard Benson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-09 with Humor categories.
With quips, quotes and insults from beloved classic literary writers such as William Shakespeare to modern literati Zadie Smith, Literary Wit will ensure that you’re never at a loss for the perfect witticism.
Lyric Wonder
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Author : James Biester
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-05-15
Lyric Wonder written by James Biester and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-15 with Poetry categories.
James Biester sees the shift in late Elizabethan England toward a witty, rough, and obscure lyric style—metaphysical wit and strong lines—as a response to the heightened cultural prestige of wonder. That same prestige was demonstrated in the search for strange artifacts and animals to display in the wonder-cabinets of the period. By embracing the genres of satire and epigram, poets of the Elizabethan court risked their chances for political advancement, exposing themselves to the danger of being classified either as malcontents or as jesters who lacked the gravitas required of those in power. John Donne himself recognized both the risks and benefits of adopting the'admirable'style, as Biester shows in his close readings of the First and Fourth Satyres. Why did courtier-poets adopt such a dangerous form of self-representation? The answer, Biester maintains, lies in an extraordinary confluence of developments in both poetics and the interpenetrating spheres of the culture at large, which made the pursuit of wonder through style unusually attractive, even necessary. In a postfeudal but still aristocratic culture, he says, the ability to astound through language performed the validating function that was once supplied by the ability to fight. Combining the insights of the new historicism with traditional literary scholarship, Biester perceives the rise of metaphysical style as a social as well as aesthetic event.
Wit And Humor Of The Bible A Literary Study
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Author : Marion D. Shutter
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-12-04
Wit And Humor Of The Bible A Literary Study written by Marion D. Shutter and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-04 with Fiction categories.
In 'Wit and Humor of the Bible: A Literary Study', author Marion D. Shutter explores the often overlooked elements of wit and humor within the Bible. Contrary to popular belief, the book is not a collection of jokes, but rather these elements serve to enhance the religious history and thought presented within its pages. Shutter writes with reverence and love for the Bible, using his studies to gather new insights that have given the book a larger place in his heart. This book is a fresh and insightful perspective on a beloved text, showing how humor can enhance our understanding and appreciation of the Bible's characters and teachings.
Wit And Wisdom Of Literary Greats
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Author : Nick Holt
language : en
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Release Date : 2012-03
Wit And Wisdom Of Literary Greats written by Nick Holt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03 with Authors categories.
From free-flowing prose to writer's block, the joys and perils that envelop gifted writers' lives are captured for eternity in this hearty batch of quotations from history's legendary wordsmiths.
John Donne And The Line Of Wit
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Author : P. G. Stanwood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
John Donne And The Line Of Wit written by P. G. Stanwood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Criticism categories.
John Donne and the Line of Wit: From Metaphysical to Modernist is a study of influence, adaptation, historical imitation and invention. In his own time, Donne was celebrated for his distinctive style, especially for what his contemporaries recognized as "strong lines," that is, witty conceits or unusual, often unexpected and surprising comparisons. Donne's "metaphysical wit" fell out of fashion in the later seventeenth century, not to be significantly explored and revived until the early twentieth century, and then notably by the modernist movement in the years that followed Eliot's Waste Land (1922).Among the most important - and earliest - of poets and critics to respond to this movement are the self-styled Fugitives of the southern United States. As "fugitives" they stood against what seemed old and shop-worn language, and they gave their name and talent to the literary journal published at Vanderbilt University from 1922-25: The Fugitive provided an outlet for the work of John Crowe Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, and others, who discovered a "new" modernism that might be shaped out of the "old" metaphysical mode of Donne. Their poetry is characteristically concerned with verbal or "metaphysical" invention, usually composed with metrical formality, and from an objective, detached point of view.
Ridicule Religion And The Politics Of Wit In Augustan England
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Author : Roger D. Lund
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-23
Ridicule Religion And The Politics Of Wit In Augustan England written by Roger D. Lund and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Wit And Humor Of The Bible
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Author : Marion Daniel Shutter
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
Wit And Humor Of The Bible written by Marion Daniel Shutter and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Anecdotes categories.
The Casket Or Flowers Of Literature Wit Sentiment
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language : en
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Release Date : 1837
The Casket Or Flowers Of Literature Wit Sentiment written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1837 with American periodicals categories.
Essays On Wit No 2
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Author : Richard Flecknoe
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-08-19
Essays On Wit No 2 written by Richard Flecknoe and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-19 with Humor categories.
"Essays on Wit No. 2" by Richard Flecknoe, Joseph Warton. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
