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The Sage in Harlem : H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s / by Scruggs, Charles

Table of Contents: “…-- Mencken and "the colored brother" -- The age of satire: the teacher and his pupils -- The dream of the secular city: Mencken, Locke, and the "little American renaissance" -- Et tu Mencken? …”
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The salt of the earth natural philosophy, medicine, and chymistry in England, 1650-1750 / by Roos, Anna Marie Eleanor

Table of Contents: “…The context of salts -- Paracelsian concepts of salts -- Van Helmont, salts, and natural history in early modern England -- From salts to saline spirits-the rise of acids -- Salts and saline spirits in the medical marketplace and literature : patent medicines and chymical satire.…”
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The salt of the earth natural philosophy, medicine, and chymistry in England, 1650-1750 / by Roos, Anna Marie Eleanor

Table of Contents: “…The context of salts -- Paracelsian concepts of salts -- Van Helmont, salts, and natural history in early modern England -- From salts to saline spirits-the rise of acids -- Salts and saline spirits in the medical marketplace and literature : patent medicines and chymical satire.…”
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Literature and Identity in the Golden Ass of Apuleius / by Graverini, Luca

Table of Contents: “…Entertainment, initiation, aporia and satire ; Dissonances ; Greedy priests ; Isis and her sisters ; Lucius' shaven head ; Horizons of expectation ; An old wives' tale (anilis fabula) ; Paradox, satire, and levels of reading ; Lucius, before and after -- Metamorphoses of genres. …”
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Literature and Identity in the Golden Ass of Apuleius / by Graverini, Luca

Table of Contents: “…Entertainment, initiation, aporia and satire ; Dissonances ; Greedy priests ; Isis and her sisters ; Lucius' shaven head ; Horizons of expectation ; An old wives' tale (anilis fabula) ; Paradox, satire, and levels of reading ; Lucius, before and after -- Metamorphoses of genres. …”
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The reception of Erasmus in the early modern period /

Table of Contents: “…Political ideas : Irenism and Mirror of a Christian prince -- part IV. Rabelaisian satire, triumph, dialogue and other adaptations : receptions of The praise of folly in French, Italian and Dutch literature.…”
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The poetics of sight / by Harvey, John, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Introductory: sight, the mind's eye and art -- Shakespeare pictures -- A poetry of vision: William Blake -- Satire and sight -- Bleak house to lighthouse: the optics of the novel -- Metaphor and modernism -- Note A: the Pre-Raphaelites and Shakespeare -- Note B: the writer as art-critic.…”
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The reception of Erasmus in the early modern period /

Table of Contents: “…Political ideas : Irenism and Mirror of a Christian prince -- part IV. Rabelaisian satire, triumph, dialogue and other adaptations : receptions of The praise of folly in French, Italian and Dutch literature.…”
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The poetics of sight / by Harvey, John, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Introductory: sight, the mind's eye and art -- Shakespeare pictures -- A poetry of vision: William Blake -- Satire and sight -- Bleak house to lighthouse: the optics of the novel -- Metaphor and modernism -- Note A: the Pre-Raphaelites and Shakespeare -- Note B: the writer as art-critic.…”
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Irony in the age of empire comic perspectives on democracy and freedom / by Willett, Cynthia, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Laughter against hubris : a preemptive strike -- Laughing to keep from crying : Cornel West, pragmatism, and progressive comedy -- Authenticity in an age of satire : Ellison, Sartre, Bergson, and Spike Lee's Bamboozled -- Engage the enemy : Cavell, comedies of remarriage, and the politics of friendship -- Three concepts of freedom.…”
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Irony in the age of empire comic perspectives on democracy and freedom / by Willett, Cynthia, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Laughter against hubris : a preemptive strike -- Laughing to keep from crying : Cornel West, pragmatism, and progressive comedy -- Authenticity in an age of satire : Ellison, Sartre, Bergson, and Spike Lee's Bamboozled -- Engage the enemy : Cavell, comedies of remarriage, and the politics of friendship -- Three concepts of freedom.…”
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Queer enchantments : gender, sexuality, and class in the fairy-tale cinema of Jacques Demy / by Duggan, Anne E., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: queer enchantments -- Fairy tale and melodrama: Lola and The umbrellas of Cherbourg -- The camping of "donkey skin": Jacques Demy's cinematic re-vision of a classic tale -- Artistic freedom and grotesque satire: bohemians and bourgeois in The pied piper -- The queering of the French revolution: Lady Oscar and the tradition of the maiden warrior -- Epilogue: Demy's postmodern tales -- Filmography of Jacques Demy.…”
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Queer enchantments : gender, sexuality, and class in the fairy-tale cinema of Jacques Demy / by Duggan, Anne E., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: queer enchantments -- Fairy tale and melodrama: Lola and The umbrellas of Cherbourg -- The camping of "donkey skin": Jacques Demy's cinematic re-vision of a classic tale -- Artistic freedom and grotesque satire: bohemians and bourgeois in The pied piper -- The queering of the French revolution: Lady Oscar and the tradition of the maiden warrior -- Epilogue: Demy's postmodern tales -- Filmography of Jacques Demy.…”
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Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film / by Verstraten, Peter

Table of Contents: “…From Grotesque Caricature to Grotesque Satire; Conclusion.…”
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Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film / by Verstraten, Peter

Table of Contents: “…From Grotesque Caricature to Grotesque Satire; Conclusion.…”
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Chaucer's (Anti-)Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages / by Pugh, Tison

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Mutual masochism and the hermaphroditic courtly lady in Chaucer's Franklin's tale -- "For to be sworne bretheren til they deye": satirizing queer brotherhood in the Chaucerian corpus -- Necrotic erotics in Chaucerian romance: loving women, loving death, and destroying civilization in The Knight's tale and Troilus and Criseyde -- Queer families in Tthe Canterbury tales: fathers, children, and abusive erotics -- Chaucer's (anti-) erotic god -- Epilogue: Chaucer's avian amorousness.…”
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Chaucer's (Anti-)Eroticisms and the Queer Middle Ages / by Pugh, Tison

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Mutual masochism and the hermaphroditic courtly lady in Chaucer's Franklin's tale -- "For to be sworne bretheren til they deye": satirizing queer brotherhood in the Chaucerian corpus -- Necrotic erotics in Chaucerian romance: loving women, loving death, and destroying civilization in The Knight's tale and Troilus and Criseyde -- Queer families in Tthe Canterbury tales: fathers, children, and abusive erotics -- Chaucer's (anti-) erotic god -- Epilogue: Chaucer's avian amorousness.…”
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Regards croisés alternate perspectives on digital literature /

Table of Contents: “…Preface / by Sandy Baldwin -- Editorial / by Phillippe Bootz -- Narrative motors / by Eugenio Tisselli -- The unsatisfied reading / by Philippe Bootz -- The artist's condition -- The recursive loop between presentation and representation -- "Agents provocateurs" : codework interventions on the listservs / by Camille Paloque-Bergès -- Speak, "memory" : simulation and satire in Reagan Library / by Shuen-shing Lee -- How to read words in digital literature / by Alckmar Luiz dos Santos -- Textual material in the digital medium / by Alexandra Saemmer.…”
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Realizing capital : financial and psychic economies in Victorian form / by Kornbluh, Anna

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: 'A case of metaphysics': realizing capital -- Fictitious capital/real psyche: metalepsis, psychologism, and the grounds of finance -- Investor ironies in Great Expectations -- The economic problem of sympathy: parabasis and interest in Middlemarch -- 'Money expects money': satiric credit in The way we live now -- London, nineteenth century, capital of realism: on Marx's Victorian novel -- Psychic economy and its vicissitudes: Freud's economic hypothesis -- Epilogue: The psychic life of finance.…”
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Regards croisés alternate perspectives on digital literature /

Table of Contents: “…Preface / by Sandy Baldwin -- Editorial / by Phillippe Bootz -- Narrative motors / by Eugenio Tisselli -- The unsatisfied reading / by Philippe Bootz -- The artist's condition -- The recursive loop between presentation and representation -- "Agents provocateurs" : codework interventions on the listservs / by Camille Paloque-Bergès -- Speak, "memory" : simulation and satire in Reagan Library / by Shuen-shing Lee -- How to read words in digital literature / by Alckmar Luiz dos Santos -- Textual material in the digital medium / by Alexandra Saemmer.…”
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