Search Results - "Humorism"

Borges : desesperaciones aparentes y consuelos secretos /

Table of Contents: “…"El aleph" y el lenguaje epifánico / Julio Ortega -- Borges, o los laberintos de la inmanencia / Iván Almeida -- Borges en El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan / Roberto González Echevarría -- Borges y la subversión del modelo policial / Cristina Parodi -- Magias parciales del ensayo / Liliana Weinberg de Magis -- Borges y el humor / Evelyn Fishburn -- El doblez humorístico / Saúl Yurkievich.…”
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Soviet society in the era of late socialism, 1964-1985

Table of Contents: “…Sutcliffe -- Raped with politburon: bawdy humor and disempowerment in Yuz Aleshkovsky's prose / Olga Livshin -- Afterword: postcard from Berlin: rethinking the juncture of late socialism and late liberalism in Europe / Dominic Boyer.…”
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Borges : desesperaciones aparentes y consuelos secretos /

Table of Contents: “…"El aleph" y el lenguaje epifánico / Julio Ortega -- Borges, o los laberintos de la inmanencia / Iván Almeida -- Borges en El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan / Roberto González Echevarría -- Borges y la subversión del modelo policial / Cristina Parodi -- Magias parciales del ensayo / Liliana Weinberg de Magis -- Borges y el humor / Evelyn Fishburn -- El doblez humorístico / Saúl Yurkievich.…”
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Marrow of Human Experience, The : Essays on Folklore by William A. Wilson / by Wilson, William Albert, 1861-1951

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The importance of folklore -- The deeper necessity : folklore and the humanities -- Building bridges : folklore in the academy -- Arts and cultural policy -- "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" -- The folk speak : everyday life in pioneer oral narratives -- Documenting folklore -- Folklore and national identity -- Herder, folklore, and romantic nationalism -- Sibelius, the Kalevala, and Karelianism -- Folklore, nationalism, and the challenge of the future -- Finns in a new world : a folkloristic perspective -- Folklore, religion, and who we are -- The concept of the west and other hindrances to the study of Mormon folklore -- The study of Mormon folklore : an uncertain mirror for truth -- On being human : the folklore of Mormon missionaries -- The seriousness of Mormon humor -- Freeways, parking lots, and ice cream stands : three nephites in contemporary Mormon culture -- "Teach me all that I must do" : the practice of Mormon religion -- Personal narratives : the family novel -- A daughter's biography of William A. …”
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The first-time manager by Belker, Loren B.

Table of Contents: “…-- Understanding risk inclination -- Encouraging initiative and innovation -- Improving outcomes -- The generation gap -- Writing job descriptions -- Doing performance appraisals -- Salary administration -- Having emotional intelligence -- Developing a positive self-image -- Managing your own time -- The written word -- The grapevine -- Your best friend : delegation -- A sense of humor -- Managing, participating in, and leading meetings -- Taking center stage : the role of public speaking in your career -- Coping with stress -- Having balance in your life -- A touch of class.…”
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Indian voices listening to Native Americans / by Owings, Alison

Table of Contents: “…and other suggestions: Patty Talahongva (Hopi) -- The former president: Claudia Vigil-Muniz (Jicarilla Apache) -- Practicing medicine: Harrison Baheshone (Navajo) -- The kin of Sacajawea: Emma George and Summer Morning Baldwin (Lemhi Shoshone) -- Indian humor: Carol Craig (Yakama) -- Powwow power: Tom Phillips (Kiowa) -- Relearning for life: Henry Frank (Yurok) -- Eskimo ice cream: Christine Guy (Yup'ik) -- Aloha from Hawai'i : Charles Ka'upu Jr.…”
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The first-time manager by Belker, Loren B.

Table of Contents: “…-- Understanding risk inclination -- Encouraging initiative and innovation -- Improving outcomes -- The generation gap -- Writing job descriptions -- Doing performance appraisals -- Salary administration -- Having emotional intelligence -- Developing a positive self-image -- Managing your own time -- The written word -- The grapevine -- Your best friend : delegation -- A sense of humor -- Managing, participating in, and leading meetings -- Taking center stage : the role of public speaking in your career -- Coping with stress -- Having balance in your life -- A touch of class.…”
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Indian voices listening to Native Americans / by Owings, Alison

Table of Contents: “…and other suggestions: Patty Talahongva (Hopi) -- The former president: Claudia Vigil-Muniz (Jicarilla Apache) -- Practicing medicine: Harrison Baheshone (Navajo) -- The kin of Sacajawea: Emma George and Summer Morning Baldwin (Lemhi Shoshone) -- Indian humor: Carol Craig (Yakama) -- Powwow power: Tom Phillips (Kiowa) -- Relearning for life: Henry Frank (Yurok) -- Eskimo ice cream: Christine Guy (Yup'ik) -- Aloha from Hawai'i : Charles Ka'upu Jr.…”
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Recovering Disability in Early Modern England /

Table of Contents: “…Hobgood and David Houston Wood -- Dwarf aesthetics in Spenser's Faerie queene and the early modern court / Sara van den Berg -- Maternal culpability in fetal defects : Aphra Behn's satiric interrogations of medical models / Emily Bowles -- Disability humor and the meanings of impairment in early modern England / David M. …”
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Recovering Disability in Early Modern England /

Table of Contents: “…Hobgood and David Houston Wood -- Dwarf aesthetics in Spenser's Faerie queene and the early modern court / Sara van den Berg -- Maternal culpability in fetal defects : Aphra Behn's satiric interrogations of medical models / Emily Bowles -- Disability humor and the meanings of impairment in early modern England / David M. …”
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Public modalities rhetoric, culture, media, and the shape of public life /

Table of Contents: “…Sloop -- Risibility politics : camp humor in HIV/AIDS zines / Daniel C. Brouwer -- The vernacular mode : locating the non-institutional in the practice of citizenship / Robert Glenn Howard.…”
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Alan Ball : conversations /

Table of Contents: “…Doughton (2008) -- Fresh Air interview with Alan Ball: talking True blood and Towelhead / Terry Gross (2008) -- Life and death, drama and Humor, join hands / Kinney Littlefield (2011) -- Excerpt from interview with Alan Ball: True blood and Beyond / Nancy Harrington (2011) -- Alan Ball in Conversation with Alan Brough / Alan Brough.…”
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Public modalities rhetoric, culture, media, and the shape of public life /

Table of Contents: “…Sloop -- Risibility politics : camp humor in HIV/AIDS zines / Daniel C. Brouwer -- The vernacular mode : locating the non-institutional in the practice of citizenship / Robert Glenn Howard.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Alan Ball : conversations /

Table of Contents: “…Doughton (2008) -- Fresh Air interview with Alan Ball: talking True blood and Towelhead / Terry Gross (2008) -- Life and death, drama and Humor, join hands / Kinney Littlefield (2011) -- Excerpt from interview with Alan Ball: True blood and Beyond / Nancy Harrington (2011) -- Alan Ball in Conversation with Alan Brough / Alan Brough.…”
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Fitzgerald & Hemingway works and days / by Donaldson, Scott, 1928-

Table of Contents: “…Hemingway's morality of compensation -- Humor as a measure of character -- "A farewell to arms" as love story -- Frederic's escape and the pose of passivity -- Pt.8. …”
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Mo Yan in Context : Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller /

Table of Contents: “…Horiguchi -- Abortion in Faulkner's The Wild Palms and Mo Yan's Frog / Lanlan Du -- Rural Chineseness Mo Yan's Work and World Literature / Chengzhou He -- The Realpolitik of Mo Yans Fiction / Sabina Knight -- Mo Yans Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out in a cultural and visual context / Yuhan Huang -- Mo Yan's The Garlic Ballads and Lide and Death Are Wearing Me Out in the Context of Religious and Chinese Literary Conventions / Chi-ying Alice Wang -- Religious Elements in Mo Yans and Yan Lianke's Works / Jinghui Wang -- Mo Yans work and the politics of literary humor / Alexa Huang and Angelica Duran -- Cosmopolitanism and the internationalization of Chinese literature / Ning Wang -- Variation study in Western and Chinese comparative literature / Shunqing Cao and Miaomiao Wang -- Soul Searching in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Society / Fenggang Yang.…”
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Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology : Perspectives and Prospects /

Table of Contents: “…Switching "On," Switching "Off" -- 21. On Humor and "Laughing" Rats -- 22. A Moral Bubble -- 23. …”
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Fitzgerald & Hemingway works and days / by Donaldson, Scott, 1928-

Table of Contents: “…Hemingway's morality of compensation -- Humor as a measure of character -- "A farewell to arms" as love story -- Frederic's escape and the pose of passivity -- Pt.8. …”
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Plessner's Philosophical Anthropology : Perspectives and Prospects /

Table of Contents: “…Switching "On," Switching "Off" -- 21. On Humor and "Laughing" Rats -- 22. A Moral Bubble -- 23. …”
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Mo Yan in Context : Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller /

Table of Contents: “…Horiguchi -- Abortion in Faulkner's The Wild Palms and Mo Yan's Frog / Lanlan Du -- Rural Chineseness Mo Yan's Work and World Literature / Chengzhou He -- The Realpolitik of Mo Yans Fiction / Sabina Knight -- Mo Yans Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out in a cultural and visual context / Yuhan Huang -- Mo Yan's The Garlic Ballads and Lide and Death Are Wearing Me Out in the Context of Religious and Chinese Literary Conventions / Chi-ying Alice Wang -- Religious Elements in Mo Yans and Yan Lianke's Works / Jinghui Wang -- Mo Yans work and the politics of literary humor / Alexa Huang and Angelica Duran -- Cosmopolitanism and the internationalization of Chinese literature / Ning Wang -- Variation study in Western and Chinese comparative literature / Shunqing Cao and Miaomiao Wang -- Soul Searching in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Society / Fenggang Yang.…”
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