Search Results - "Humorism"

Deaf heritage : a narrative history of deaf America / by Gannon, Jack R.

Table of Contents: “…Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface to 2011 edition -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- Prologue : a journey begins -- Chronology -- The early years -- The 1880s -- The1890s -- Artists -- The 1900s -- The 1910s -- The 1920s -- Humor -- The 1940s -- Publications of the deaf -- The 1950s -- Sports -- The 1960s -- American sign language : our natural language.…”
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Deaf heritage : a narrative history of deaf America / by Gannon, Jack R.

Table of Contents: “…Dedication -- Foreword -- Preface to 2011 edition -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- Prologue : a journey begins -- Chronology -- The early years -- The 1880s -- The1890s -- Artists -- The 1900s -- The 1910s -- The 1920s -- Humor -- The 1940s -- Publications of the deaf -- The 1950s -- Sports -- The 1960s -- American sign language : our natural language.…”
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Anguish Of Snails : Native American Folklore in the West / by Toelken, Barre

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: the snail's clues -- Cultural patterns in Native American folklore: an introduction -- Visual patterns of performance: arts -- Kinetic patterns of performance: dance -- Oral patterns of performance: story and song -- Patterns and themes in Native humor -- Cultural patterns of discovery -- Epilogue: "gleaning" and the active audience.…”
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Anguish Of Snails : Native American Folklore in the West / by Toelken, Barre

Table of Contents: “…Prologue: the snail's clues -- Cultural patterns in Native American folklore: an introduction -- Visual patterns of performance: arts -- Kinetic patterns of performance: dance -- Oral patterns of performance: story and song -- Patterns and themes in Native humor -- Cultural patterns of discovery -- Epilogue: "gleaning" and the active audience.…”
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Interpretation techniques and exercises / by Nolan, James, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Speaking -- Preparation : anticipating the speaker -- Complex syntax : compression -- Word order : clusters -- General adverbial clauses -- Untranslatability -- Figures of speech -- Argumentation -- Diction : register -- Formal style -- A policy address -- Quotations, allusions, transposition -- Political discourse -- Economic discourse -- Humor -- Latinisms -- Numbers -- Note-taking.…”
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Interpretation techniques and exercises / by Nolan, James, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Speaking -- Preparation : anticipating the speaker -- Complex syntax : compression -- Word order : clusters -- General adverbial clauses -- Untranslatability -- Figures of speech -- Argumentation -- Diction : register -- Formal style -- A policy address -- Quotations, allusions, transposition -- Political discourse -- Economic discourse -- Humor -- Latinisms -- Numbers -- Note-taking.…”
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Archives of American time literature and modernity in the nineteenth century / by Pratt, Lloyd, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Written to the future -- Figures of print, orders of time, and the character of American modernity -- "A magnificent fragment" : dialects of time and the American historical romance -- Local time : southwestern humor and nineteenth-century literary regionalism -- The deprivation of time in African American life writing -- Epilogue: The spatial turn and the scale of freedom.…”
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Archives of American time literature and modernity in the nineteenth century / by Pratt, Lloyd, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Written to the future -- Figures of print, orders of time, and the character of American modernity -- "A magnificent fragment" : dialects of time and the American historical romance -- Local time : southwestern humor and nineteenth-century literary regionalism -- The deprivation of time in African American life writing -- Epilogue: The spatial turn and the scale of freedom.…”
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A Wisconsin Yankee in confederate Bayou country the Civil War reminiscences of a Union general / by Paine, Halbert E.

Table of Contents: “…Camp Utley to the Eastern Shore of Maryland -- Baltimore to Ship Island -- Aboard the ship Great Republic to New Orleans -- From Frenier Station to Vicksburg and New Orleans -- My time of service under arrest -- In command at Baton Rouge -- Sundry operations and the Teche campaign -- Operations connected to the siege of Port Hudson -- Humorous anecdotes, miscellany, and farewell.…”
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The spacesuit film a history, 1918-1969 / by Westfahl, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: pre-flight briefing -- First flights: the early films -- The true frontier: the classic films -- Wild adventures: the melodramatic films -- Ships of fools: the humorous films -- Space frights: the horrific films -- Parallel flight paths: the foreign-language films -- From reel to real: the rebirth and death of the films -- Return to Earth: films after 1969.…”
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Here on the edge / by McQuiddy, Steve

Table of Contents: “…An unusual gathering -- The cost of conscience in America -- Shared misery and gallows humor -- Community, cooperation, and sacrifice -- Against them the creative act -- Democratic sausage-making -- No use for war -- As close as it gets to a school -- The revolution begins -- Be cheerful, keep smiling -- What now? …”
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The spacesuit film a history, 1918-1969 / by Westfahl, Gary

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: pre-flight briefing -- First flights: the early films -- The true frontier: the classic films -- Wild adventures: the melodramatic films -- Ships of fools: the humorous films -- Space frights: the horrific films -- Parallel flight paths: the foreign-language films -- From reel to real: the rebirth and death of the films -- Return to Earth: films after 1969.…”
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Here on the edge / by McQuiddy, Steve

Table of Contents: “…An unusual gathering -- The cost of conscience in America -- Shared misery and gallows humor -- Community, cooperation, and sacrifice -- Against them the creative act -- Democratic sausage-making -- No use for war -- As close as it gets to a school -- The revolution begins -- Be cheerful, keep smiling -- What now? …”
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A Wisconsin Yankee in confederate Bayou country the Civil War reminiscences of a Union general / by Paine, Halbert E.

Table of Contents: “…Camp Utley to the Eastern Shore of Maryland -- Baltimore to Ship Island -- Aboard the ship Great Republic to New Orleans -- From Frenier Station to Vicksburg and New Orleans -- My time of service under arrest -- In command at Baton Rouge -- Sundry operations and the Teche campaign -- Operations connected to the siege of Port Hudson -- Humorous anecdotes, miscellany, and farewell.…”
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The comic art of war : a critical study of military cartoons, 1805/2014, with a guide to artists / by Knopf, Christina M., 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: vocabularies of the visual-verbal -- GI joking: military humor and graphic narratives -- Service before self: military life -- Kiss my brass: military hierarchy -- Frenemies: friends and foes -- Drawn behind the lines: military geography -- Sex(es) in battle: gender and sexuality -- Drawing fire: combat and casualties -- Sillyvillians: civil-military interactions -- Conclusion: SITREP; the military's rhetorical vision.…”
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The comic art of war : a critical study of military cartoons, 1805/2014, with a guide to artists / by Knopf, Christina M., 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: vocabularies of the visual-verbal -- GI joking: military humor and graphic narratives -- Service before self: military life -- Kiss my brass: military hierarchy -- Frenemies: friends and foes -- Drawn behind the lines: military geography -- Sex(es) in battle: gender and sexuality -- Drawing fire: combat and casualties -- Sillyvillians: civil-military interactions -- Conclusion: SITREP; the military's rhetorical vision.…”
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The Chomsky effect a radical works beyond the ivory tower / by Barsky, Robert F.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Dissent -- The Chomsky effect within and beyond the ivory tower -- Resisting and reviling the Chomsky effect -- Effective precursors: anarchists, cartesians, liberals and the radical left -- Milieus -- Just effects: Chomsky on law, ethics and human rights -- Effective teaching: from catalyst to institute professor -- Obfuscating the Chomsky effect: media, propaganda, and postmodern language studies -- Literature, humor, and the effects of creative discourses -- The effective "public" intellectual.…”
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Mark Twain and the spiritual crisis of his age by Bush, Harold K. (Harold Karl), 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Mark Twain's roots : Hannibal, the river, and the west -- Mark Twain's wife : the moral ethos of the Victorian home -- Mark Twain's pastor : Joe Twichell and social Christianity -- Mark Twain's liberal faith : the social gospel on Asylum Hill -- Mark Twain's Civil War : civil religion and the Lost Cause -- Mark Twain's American Adam : humor as hope and apocalypse -- Mark Twain's grief : the final years.…”
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Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind : Medieval Constructions of a Disability / by Wheatley, Edward

Table of Contents: “…Cripping the middle ages, medievalizing disability theory -- Leading the blind : France versus England -- "Blind" jews and blind Christians : the metaphorics of marginalization -- Humoring the sighted : the comic embodiment of blindness -- Blinding, blindness, and sexual transgression -- Instructive interventions : miraculous chastisement and cure -- Medieval science and blindness : case studies of Jean L'Aveugle, Gilles Le Muisit, and John Audelay -- Afterword: the visibility of the blind in England and France.…”
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The Chomsky effect a radical works beyond the ivory tower / by Barsky, Robert F.

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Dissent -- The Chomsky effect within and beyond the ivory tower -- Resisting and reviling the Chomsky effect -- Effective precursors: anarchists, cartesians, liberals and the radical left -- Milieus -- Just effects: Chomsky on law, ethics and human rights -- Effective teaching: from catalyst to institute professor -- Obfuscating the Chomsky effect: media, propaganda, and postmodern language studies -- Literature, humor, and the effects of creative discourses -- The effective "public" intellectual.…”
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