Nervous People And Other Satires
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Nervous People And Other Satires
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Author : Mikhail Zoshchenko
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1975
Nervous People And Other Satires written by Mikhail Zoshchenko and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Fiction categories.
Among the most popular writers of the early Soviet period was the satirist Mikhail Zoshchenko, whose career spanned nearly four decades and who was as beloved by ordinary people as he was admired by the elite. His most popular pieces, often appearing in newspapers, were "short-short stories" written in a slangy, colloquial style. Typical targets of his satire are the Soviet bureaucracy, crowded conditions in communal apartments, marital infidelities and the rapid turnover in marriage partners, and what a disdainful Soviet judge in one of the sketches dismisses as "the petty-bourgeois mode of life, with its adulterous episodes, lying, and similar nonsense." Farcical complications, satiric understatement, humorous anachronisms, and an ironic contrast between high-flown sentiments and the down-to-earth reality of mercenary instincts were his favorite devices. Zoshchenko had an uncanny knack for eluding Soviet censorship (one of the sketches even touches humorously on the dangerous topic of party purges) and his work as a result offers us a marvelous window on life in Russia during the twenties and thirties.
Nervous People
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Author : Mikhail Zoshchenko
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Nervous People written by Mikhail Zoshchenko and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Satire, Russian categories.
Nervous People And Other Satires D
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Author : Mihail Mihailovič Zoŝenko
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Nervous People And Other Satires D written by Mihail Mihailovič Zoŝenko and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with categories.
Nervous People And Other Satires Edited With An Introd By Hugh Mclean Translated From The Russian By Maria Gordon And Hugh Mclean
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Author : Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Zoshchenko
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Nervous People And Other Satires Edited With An Introd By Hugh Mclean Translated From The Russian By Maria Gordon And Hugh Mclean written by Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Zoshchenko and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with categories.
Nervous People And Other Satires
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Author : Mikhail Zoshchenko
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Nervous People And Other Satires written by Mikhail Zoshchenko and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with categories.
Short Story Index
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
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Short Story Index 1959 1963
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
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The Modern Satiric Grotesque And Its Traditions
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Author : John R. Clark
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2014-07-15
The Modern Satiric Grotesque And Its Traditions written by John R. Clark and has been published by University Press of Kentucky this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Thomas Mann predicted that no manner or mode in literature would be so typical or so pervasive in the twentieth century as the grotesque. Assuredly he was correct. The subjects and methods of our comic literature (and much of our other literature) are regularly disturbing and often repulsive -- no laughing matter. In this ambitious study, John R. Clark seeks to elucidate the major tactics and topics deployed in modern literary dark humor. In Part I he explores the satiric strategies of authors of the grotesque, strategies that undercut conventional usage and form: the de-basement of heroes, the denigration of language and style, the disruption of normative narrative technique, and even the debunking of authors themselves. Part II surveys major recurrent themes of grotesquerie: tedium, scatology, cannibalism, dystopia, and Armageddon or the end of the world. Clearly the literature of the grotesque is obtrusive and ugly, its effect morbid and disquieting -- and deliberately meant to be so. Grotesque literature may be unpleasant, but it is patently insightful. Indeed, as Clark shows, all of the strategies and topics employed by this literature stem from age-old and spirited traditions. Critics have complained about this grim satiric literature, asserting that it is dank, cheerless, unsavory, and negative. But such an interpretation is far too simplistic. On the contrary, as Clark demonstrates, such grotesque writing, in its power and its prevalence in the past and present, is in fact conventional, controlled, imaginative, and vigorous -- no mean achievements for any body of art.
The Offensive Art
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Author : Leonard Freedman
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2008-11-30
The Offensive Art written by Leonard Freedman and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-30 with Political Science categories.
The Offensive Art is an arch and sometimes caustic look at the art of political satire as practiced in democratic, monarchical, and authoritarian societies around the world over the past century-together with the efforts by governmental, religious, and corporate authorities to suppress it by censorship, intimidation, policy, and fatwa. Examples are drawn from the full spectrum of satiric genres, including novels, plays, verse, songs, essays, cartoons, cabarets and revues, movies, television, and the Internet. The multicultural and multimedia breadth and historical depth of Freedman's comparative approach frames his novel assessment of the role of political satire in today's post-9/11 world, and in particular the cross-cultural controversies it generates, such as the global protests against the Jyllands-Posten cartoons. In a tongue-in-cheek style peppered with the world's best one-liners from the last century, The Offensive Art recounts the acrimonious and often perilous cat-and-mouse games between political satirists and their censors and inhibitors through the last century in America (especially FDR, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush II and in wartime), Britain (especially Churchill, Thatcher, Blair and the Royals), Germany (Hitler to the present), Russia (Stalin to the present), China (Mao to the present), India (from the Raj on), and the Middle East (from 1920s Egypt to today). Freedman focuses on the role and transformation of satire during shifts from authoritarian to democratic systems in such places as South Africa, Argentina, and Eastern Europe. He surveys the state of satire throughout the world today, identifying the most dangerous countries for practitioners of the offensive art, and presents his findings as to the political efficacy of satire in provoking change.
Encyclopedia Of Life Writing
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Author : Margaretta Jolly
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-04
Encyclopedia Of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
First published in 2001. This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various forms that constitute "life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only autobiography and biography proper, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have been recorded and structured. It includes entries on genres and subgenres, national and regional traditions from around the world, and important auto-biographical writers, as well as articles on related areas such as oral history, anthropology, testimonies, and the representation of life stories in non-verbal art forms.