Search Results - "Humorism"

From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad essays collected in memory of James T. Hillhouse /

Table of Contents: “…Greig -- A note on Dickens' humor / D. Bush -- Self-help and the helpless in Bleak House / G.H. …”
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The war on terror and American popular culture September 11 and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Embracing the complexity: deconstructing the war on terror: A day that will live in irony: September 11 and the war on humor / Sean Zwagerman; "I could smell the dawn of Armageddon when this dick was elected": hip-hop's oppositional voices in the war on terror / Paul Williams; Attack of the livid dead: recalibrating terror in the post-September 11 zombie film / Nick Muntean and Matthew Thomas Payne; Interrogating the manipulation of fear: V for vendetta, Batman begins, Good night, & good luck, and America's "war on terror" / Andrew Schopp.…”
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The war on terror and American popular culture September 11 and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Embracing the complexity: deconstructing the war on terror: A day that will live in irony: September 11 and the war on humor / Sean Zwagerman; "I could smell the dawn of Armageddon when this dick was elected": hip-hop's oppositional voices in the war on terror / Paul Williams; Attack of the livid dead: recalibrating terror in the post-September 11 zombie film / Nick Muntean and Matthew Thomas Payne; Interrogating the manipulation of fear: V for vendetta, Batman begins, Good night, & good luck, and America's "war on terror" / Andrew Schopp.…”
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From Jane Austen to Joseph Conrad essays collected in memory of James T. Hillhouse /

Table of Contents: “…Greig -- A note on Dickens' humor / D. Bush -- Self-help and the helpless in Bleak House / G.H. …”
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Arguing comics literary masters on a popular medium /

Table of Contents: “…From "The tyranny of the pictorial" / Sidney Fairfield -- From "The reign of the spectacular" / Annie Russell Marble -- From "The humor of the colored supplement" / Ralph Bergengren -- Introduction to Frans Masereel, Passionate journey: a novel told in 165 woodcuts / Thomas Mann -- "The Krazy Kat that walks by himself" / Gilbert Seldes -- "A foreword to Krazy" / e. e. cummings -- "A mash note to Crockett Johnson" / Dorothy Parker -- "Steig's cartoons: review of All embarrassed by William Steig" / Clement Greenberg -- "Limits of common sense: review of Years of wrath: a cartoon history, 1931 1945 by David Low" / Clement Greenberg -- "Notes on mass culture" / Irving Howe -- "Masterpieces as cartoons" / Delmore Schwartz -- "Woofed with dreams" / Robert Warshow -- "Paul, the horror comics, and Dr. …”
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The ethics of obscene speech in early Christianity and its environment by Hultin, Jeremy F.

Table of Contents: “…-- Plato and Aristotle on foul language -- Plato and the dangers of mimesis -- Aristotle and the bounds of humor -- Abuse -- Laws against slander -- Religious rites -- Excursus : the language of some love charms -- Comedy -- New forms of comic drama -- Literary obscenities -- Epigram -- Tales of sexual adventures and sex manuals -- Ovid's culpa -- Speech, character, and self-definition -- Speech as it relates to character -- Speech as it defined specific groups -- Cynics and shameless speech -- Stoics -- The linguistic roots of the stoic ethics of foul language -- Excursus : Bryson the Megarian -- Changes in stoic (and cynic) views of obscene speech -- Jewish scripture and earliest Christianity -- Prophetic scatology -- Wisdom literature and Ben Sirach -- Jesus -- James -- Didache 3:3 and the two ways -- Paul -- Galatians 5:12 -- Philippians 3:8: [Greek text] -- Colossians and Ephesians -- Colossians 3:8 -- Colossians 4:6 : "season your speech with salt" -- Ephesians -- Exegesis of Ephesians 5:3-14 -- "Let them not even be named among you" (Eph 5:3) -- "Shameful even to mention" (Eph 5:12) -- Speech rules in 1QS -- Profaning a sanctum -- Not fitting for holy ones -- Speech and Christian identities -- Clement of Alexandria on foul language -- The divine paedagogue and Christian manners -- On foul language -- Excursus : Clement and the Didache -- A "deeper logos" about foul language -- Comparing Clement.…”
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Latin American popular culture since independence an introduction /

Table of Contents: “…Benjamin -- Racial parity and national humor : Carmen Miranda's samba performances, 1930-1939 / Darien J. …”
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The social media reader

Table of Contents: “…/ Adam Hyde, Mike Linksvayer, kanarinka, Michael Mandiberg, Marta Peirano, Sissu Tarka, Astra Taylor, Alan Toner, Mushon Zer-Aviv -- Sociality -- Participating in the always-on lifestyle / danah boyd -- From Indymedia to demand media : journalism's visions of its audience and the horizons of democracy / C.W. Anderson -- Humor -- Phreakers, hackers, and trolls and the politics of transgression and spectacle / E. …”
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Mapping region in early American writing /

Table of Contents: “…Chartings : colonies and countries -- "To plant himself in with soveranity" : Welsh Indians and the early West, 1576-1812 / Edward Watts -- Reading the routes : early American nature writing and critical regionalism before the "postfrontier" / William V. Lombardi -- The "humor of the Old Southwest" and national regionality / Robert Gunn -- West Indian emancipation and the time of regionalism in the hemispheric 1850s / Martha Schoolman -- Section 2. …”
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Arguing comics literary masters on a popular medium /

Table of Contents: “…From "The tyranny of the pictorial" / Sidney Fairfield -- From "The reign of the spectacular" / Annie Russell Marble -- From "The humor of the colored supplement" / Ralph Bergengren -- Introduction to Frans Masereel, Passionate journey: a novel told in 165 woodcuts / Thomas Mann -- "The Krazy Kat that walks by himself" / Gilbert Seldes -- "A foreword to Krazy" / e. e. cummings -- "A mash note to Crockett Johnson" / Dorothy Parker -- "Steig's cartoons: review of All embarrassed by William Steig" / Clement Greenberg -- "Limits of common sense: review of Years of wrath: a cartoon history, 1931 1945 by David Low" / Clement Greenberg -- "Notes on mass culture" / Irving Howe -- "Masterpieces as cartoons" / Delmore Schwartz -- "Woofed with dreams" / Robert Warshow -- "Paul, the horror comics, and Dr. …”
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The ethics of obscene speech in early Christianity and its environment by Hultin, Jeremy F.

Table of Contents: “…-- Plato and Aristotle on foul language -- Plato and the dangers of mimesis -- Aristotle and the bounds of humor -- Abuse -- Laws against slander -- Religious rites -- Excursus : the language of some love charms -- Comedy -- New forms of comic drama -- Literary obscenities -- Epigram -- Tales of sexual adventures and sex manuals -- Ovid's culpa -- Speech, character, and self-definition -- Speech as it relates to character -- Speech as it defined specific groups -- Cynics and shameless speech -- Stoics -- The linguistic roots of the stoic ethics of foul language -- Excursus : Bryson the Megarian -- Changes in stoic (and cynic) views of obscene speech -- Jewish scripture and earliest Christianity -- Prophetic scatology -- Wisdom literature and Ben Sirach -- Jesus -- James -- Didache 3:3 and the two ways -- Paul -- Galatians 5:12 -- Philippians 3:8: [Greek text] -- Colossians and Ephesians -- Colossians 3:8 -- Colossians 4:6 : "season your speech with salt" -- Ephesians -- Exegesis of Ephesians 5:3-14 -- "Let them not even be named among you" (Eph 5:3) -- "Shameful even to mention" (Eph 5:12) -- Speech rules in 1QS -- Profaning a sanctum -- Not fitting for holy ones -- Speech and Christian identities -- Clement of Alexandria on foul language -- The divine paedagogue and Christian manners -- On foul language -- Excursus : Clement and the Didache -- A "deeper logos" about foul language -- Comparing Clement.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Latin American popular culture since independence an introduction /

Table of Contents: “…Benjamin -- Racial parity and national humor : Carmen Miranda's samba performances, 1930-1939 / Darien J. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The social media reader

Table of Contents: “…/ Adam Hyde, Mike Linksvayer, kanarinka, Michael Mandiberg, Marta Peirano, Sissu Tarka, Astra Taylor, Alan Toner, Mushon Zer-Aviv -- Sociality -- Participating in the always-on lifestyle / danah boyd -- From Indymedia to demand media : journalism's visions of its audience and the horizons of democracy / C.W. Anderson -- Humor -- Phreakers, hackers, and trolls and the politics of transgression and spectacle / E. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Mapping region in early American writing /

Table of Contents: “…Chartings : colonies and countries -- "To plant himself in with soveranity" : Welsh Indians and the early West, 1576-1812 / Edward Watts -- Reading the routes : early American nature writing and critical regionalism before the "postfrontier" / William V. Lombardi -- The "humor of the Old Southwest" and national regionality / Robert Gunn -- West Indian emancipation and the time of regionalism in the hemispheric 1850s / Martha Schoolman -- Section 2. …”
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The chronicles of Panchita Villa and other guerrilleras essays on Chicana/Latina literature and criticism / by Rebolledo, Tey Diana, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…: Chicana feminism through literature (1997) -- Jugando a la vida con poemas : contemporary Chicana poetry in Spanish (1998) -- Mi vida loca : symbolic spaces in the construction of identity in Chicana literature (1998) -- The chicana bandera : Sandra Cisneros in the public press : constructing a cultural icon (1996-1999) -- The tools in the toolbox : representing work in Chicana literature (1999) -- La nueva onda = The new wave : contemporary Chicana writing (2001) -- Size 48D bras and men who wear skirts : the dialectics of humor in Denise Chávez's narratives (2001) -- The archbishop sees the body of the virgin : art, religion, ideology, and popular culture (2001) -- Game theory : a typology of feminist players in Latina/Chicana writing (1985) -- Art and spiritual politics : Sor Juana Beatriz de la Fuente, a feminist literary perspective (1995) -- Inheriting the alphabet : homeland and exile in Marjorie Agosín (1997) -- Questioning Nepantla : the land in between, geopolitical tyrannies and other border complexities (2002).…”
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Complementary & alternative therapies in nursing /

Table of Contents: “…Evolution and use of complementary and alternative therapies / Mariah Snyder, Kathleen Niska, and Ruth Lindquist -- Complementary therapies: nurse's self-care / Barbara Leonard -- Presence / Sue Penque and Mariah Snyder -- Therapeutic listening / Shigeaki Watanuki, Mary Fran Tracy, and Ruth Lindquist -- Creating optimal healing environments / Mary Jo Kreitzer and Terri Aborowsky -- Imagery / Maura Fitzgerald and Mary Langevin -- Music intervention / Linda Chlan and Annie Heiderscheit -- Humor / Shirley Trout -- Yoga / Miriam E. Cameron -- Biofeedback / Marion Good and Jaclene Zauszniewski -- Meditation / Cynthia R. …”
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Complementary & alternative therapies in nursing /

Table of Contents: “…Evolution and use of complementary and alternative therapies / Mariah Snyder, Kathleen Niska, and Ruth Lindquist -- Complementary therapies: nurse's self-care / Barbara Leonard -- Presence / Sue Penque and Mariah Snyder -- Therapeutic listening / Shigeaki Watanuki, Mary Fran Tracy, and Ruth Lindquist -- Creating optimal healing environments / Mary Jo Kreitzer and Terri Aborowsky -- Imagery / Maura Fitzgerald and Mary Langevin -- Music intervention / Linda Chlan and Annie Heiderscheit -- Humor / Shirley Trout -- Yoga / Miriam E. Cameron -- Biofeedback / Marion Good and Jaclene Zauszniewski -- Meditation / Cynthia R. …”
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Jews and Gender /

Table of Contents: “…Hodes -- Jewish feminism as a model for Judaism as a choice / Hannah Kehat -- The pioneering American Jewish women directors : from Elaine May to Claudia Weill / Lawrence Baron -- "When you're a funny girl" : confirming and complicating accepted cultural images of Jewish femininity in the films of Barbra Streisand / Samantha Pickette -- "Schlemiel feminism" : Jewish humor and activism on 'Broad City' / David Gillota -- Poskot in the palace of Torah : a preliminary study of orthodox feminism and Halachic process Gail Labovitz.…”
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The chronicles of Panchita Villa and other guerrilleras essays on Chicana/Latina literature and criticism / by Rebolledo, Tey Diana, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…: Chicana feminism through literature (1997) -- Jugando a la vida con poemas : contemporary Chicana poetry in Spanish (1998) -- Mi vida loca : symbolic spaces in the construction of identity in Chicana literature (1998) -- The chicana bandera : Sandra Cisneros in the public press : constructing a cultural icon (1996-1999) -- The tools in the toolbox : representing work in Chicana literature (1999) -- La nueva onda = The new wave : contemporary Chicana writing (2001) -- Size 48D bras and men who wear skirts : the dialectics of humor in Denise Chávez's narratives (2001) -- The archbishop sees the body of the virgin : art, religion, ideology, and popular culture (2001) -- Game theory : a typology of feminist players in Latina/Chicana writing (1985) -- Art and spiritual politics : Sor Juana Beatriz de la Fuente, a feminist literary perspective (1995) -- Inheriting the alphabet : homeland and exile in Marjorie Agosín (1997) -- Questioning Nepantla : the land in between, geopolitical tyrannies and other border complexities (2002).…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Jews and Gender /

Table of Contents: “…Hodes -- Jewish feminism as a model for Judaism as a choice / Hannah Kehat -- The pioneering American Jewish women directors : from Elaine May to Claudia Weill / Lawrence Baron -- "When you're a funny girl" : confirming and complicating accepted cultural images of Jewish femininity in the films of Barbra Streisand / Samantha Pickette -- "Schlemiel feminism" : Jewish humor and activism on 'Broad City' / David Gillota -- Poskot in the palace of Torah : a preliminary study of orthodox feminism and Halachic process Gail Labovitz.…”
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