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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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Redeeming laughter : the comic dimension of human experience / by Berger, Peter L., 1929-

Table of Contents: “…Self-Serving Explanations and Unsolicited Compliments -- The Comic Intrusion -- Philosophers of the Comic, and the Comedy of Philosophy -- Laughing Monks: A Very Brief Sinitic Interlude -- Homo Ridens: Physiology and Psychology -- Homo Ridiculus: Social Constructions of the Comic -- Interlude: Brief Reflections on Jewish Humor -- The Comic as Diversion: Benign Humor -- The Comic as Consolation: Tragicomedy -- The Comic as Game of Intellect: Wit -- The Comic as Weapon: Satire -- Interlude: The Eternal Return of Folly -- The Folly of Redemption -- Interlude: On Grim Theologians -- The Comic as a Signal of Transcendence.…”
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Redeeming laughter : the comic dimension of human experience / by Berger, Peter L., 1929-

Table of Contents: “…Self-Serving Explanations and Unsolicited Compliments -- The Comic Intrusion -- Philosophers of the Comic, and the Comedy of Philosophy -- Laughing Monks: A Very Brief Sinitic Interlude -- Homo Ridens: Physiology and Psychology -- Homo Ridiculus: Social Constructions of the Comic -- Interlude: Brief Reflections on Jewish Humor -- The Comic as Diversion: Benign Humor -- The Comic as Consolation: Tragicomedy -- The Comic as Game of Intellect: Wit -- The Comic as Weapon: Satire -- Interlude: The Eternal Return of Folly -- The Folly of Redemption -- Interlude: On Grim Theologians -- The Comic as a Signal of Transcendence.…”
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Living dangerously on the margins in Medieval and early modern Europe /

Table of Contents: “…Cruz -- Sodomy and the lash: sexualized satire in the Renaissance / Ian Frederick Moulton -- The wind traders: speculators and frauds in Northern Europe, 1650 - 1720 / Mary Lindemann.…”
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The godfather of tabloid Generoso Pope Jr. and the National enquirer / by Vitek, Jack

Table of Contents: “…-- Washington garbage -- Manufacturing "truth" -- The peak of tabloid : Elvis -- Reporter as gladiator -- Star wars : Hollywood versus the Enquirer -- Wacky world news (tabloid II) -- Anger as satire -- Second peak (two gardeners' stories) -- Sudden death, ironically -- The Enquirer after Pope -- Pope in perspective.…”
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Living dangerously on the margins in Medieval and early modern Europe /

Table of Contents: “…Cruz -- Sodomy and the lash: sexualized satire in the Renaissance / Ian Frederick Moulton -- The wind traders: speculators and frauds in Northern Europe, 1650 - 1720 / Mary Lindemann.…”
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The godfather of tabloid Generoso Pope Jr. and the National enquirer / by Vitek, Jack

Table of Contents: “…-- Washington garbage -- Manufacturing "truth" -- The peak of tabloid : Elvis -- Reporter as gladiator -- Star wars : Hollywood versus the Enquirer -- Wacky world news (tabloid II) -- Anger as satire -- Second peak (two gardeners' stories) -- Sudden death, ironically -- The Enquirer after Pope -- Pope in perspective.…”
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A Sentimental Education for the Working Man : The Mexico City Penny Press, 1900-1910 / by Buffington, Robert, 1952-

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A Sentimental Education for the Working Man : The Mexico City Penny Press, 1900-1910 / by Buffington, Robert, 1952-

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Poe by Hutchisson, James M.

Table of Contents: “…Childhood : Boston, Richmond, England (1809-1825) -- The byronic youth : university, the army, and West Point (1826-1830) -- Baltimore : early tales and satires (1831-1834) -- Return to Richmond : marriage, the Southern Literary Messenger, and The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1835-1837) -- Philadelphia : Burton's Gentleman's magazine and the great tales (1838-1840) -- Graham's magazine, "The Penn," and The red death (1841-1843) -- New York : triumphs and troubles, "The raven" and the Longfellow war (1844-1845) -- Quarrels, loves, and losses (1846-1848) -- The journey and the lighthouse (1849).…”
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Poe by Hutchisson, James M.

Table of Contents: “…Childhood : Boston, Richmond, England (1809-1825) -- The byronic youth : university, the army, and West Point (1826-1830) -- Baltimore : early tales and satires (1831-1834) -- Return to Richmond : marriage, the Southern Literary Messenger, and The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1835-1837) -- Philadelphia : Burton's Gentleman's magazine and the great tales (1838-1840) -- Graham's magazine, "The Penn," and The red death (1841-1843) -- New York : triumphs and troubles, "The raven" and the Longfellow war (1844-1845) -- Quarrels, loves, and losses (1846-1848) -- The journey and the lighthouse (1849).…”
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The Cambridge introduction to eighteenth-century poetry by Sitter, John E.

Table of Contents: “…Poetic Consciousness: 6. Satiric poetry; 7. Pope as metapoet; 8. Metapoetry beyond Pope; Part III. …”
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The Cambridge introduction to eighteenth-century poetry by Sitter, John E.

Table of Contents: “…Poetic Consciousness: 6. Satiric poetry; 7. Pope as metapoet; 8. Metapoetry beyond Pope; Part III. …”
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Martin Sherman skipping over quicksand / by Dace, Letitia

Table of Contents: “…Crucibles and satires (1938-1960) -- Songs (1960-1962) -- Fat Tuesday (1963-1966) -- Crises (1966-1972) -- California dreamin' (1973-1977) -- Pink triangles (1977-1979) -- Bent on Broadway (1979-1980) -- Rachel (1978-1984) -- Isadora (1983-1988) -- Vanessa times two (1986-1991) -- Ian again (1989-1991) -- A future in film (1990-1993) -- Magic (1994-1997) -- Celluloid (1994-1997) -- Dreams fulfilled (1994-1997) -- Judaica (1998-2000) -- Italy (1999-2003) -- India (2000-2002) -- Oz (2001-2003) -- Laura (2003-2005) -- Controversies (2005-2011.…”
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Martin Sherman skipping over quicksand / by Dace, Letitia

Table of Contents: “…Crucibles and satires (1938-1960) -- Songs (1960-1962) -- Fat Tuesday (1963-1966) -- Crises (1966-1972) -- California dreamin' (1973-1977) -- Pink triangles (1977-1979) -- Bent on Broadway (1979-1980) -- Rachel (1978-1984) -- Isadora (1983-1988) -- Vanessa times two (1986-1991) -- Ian again (1989-1991) -- A future in film (1990-1993) -- Magic (1994-1997) -- Celluloid (1994-1997) -- Dreams fulfilled (1994-1997) -- Judaica (1998-2000) -- Italy (1999-2003) -- India (2000-2002) -- Oz (2001-2003) -- Laura (2003-2005) -- Controversies (2005-2011.…”
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A History of the Case Study : Sexology, Psychoanalysis, Literature / by Lang, Birgit, Lewis, Alison, Damousi, Joy

Table of Contents: “…'Writing back': literary satire and Oskar Panizza's Psichopatia criminalis (1898) / Birgit Lang -- 4. …”
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A History of the Case Study : Sexology, Psychoanalysis, Literature / by Lang, Birgit, Lewis, Alison, Damousi, Joy

Table of Contents: “…'Writing back': literary satire and Oskar Panizza's Psichopatia criminalis (1898) / Birgit Lang -- 4. …”
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Intertextuality in contemporary African literature looking inward / by Ogede, Ode

Table of Contents: “…from documentary to investigative realism : Cyprian Ekwensi's Jagua Nana and Flora Nwapa's One is enough -- Lampoon, or the power of savage satire, and the visual object of distaste : Chinua Achebe's A man of the people and Ayi Kwei Armah's The beautyful ones are not yet born -- On the politics of love : Chinua Achebe's No longer at ease and Bessie Head's Maru -- Masking the infrastuctural frame : Christopher Okigbo and his acolytes (Labyrinths' aural and thematic echoes in Okinba Launko's Minted coins and Chimalum Nwankwo's The heart in the womb) -- Conclusion: coming out of shadow : eye on the tradition, looking for consequence.…”
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Intertextuality in contemporary African literature looking inward / by Ogede, Ode

Table of Contents: “…from documentary to investigative realism : Cyprian Ekwensi's Jagua Nana and Flora Nwapa's One is enough -- Lampoon, or the power of savage satire, and the visual object of distaste : Chinua Achebe's A man of the people and Ayi Kwei Armah's The beautyful ones are not yet born -- On the politics of love : Chinua Achebe's No longer at ease and Bessie Head's Maru -- Masking the infrastuctural frame : Christopher Okigbo and his acolytes (Labyrinths' aural and thematic echoes in Okinba Launko's Minted coins and Chimalum Nwankwo's The heart in the womb) -- Conclusion: coming out of shadow : eye on the tradition, looking for consequence.…”
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The plays to 1942 Mulatto to the sun do move / by Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967

Table of Contents: “…With singing, music, and dancing (1938) -- Six satires (1938) -- The sun do move (1942).…”
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