Author: Andrew Waters
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1445700867
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Author: H. B. Finlay Knight
Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: John Doran
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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Author: Dr. Doran (John)
Publisher: London : R. Bentley
ISBN:
Category : Fools and jesters
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Author: ... Doran
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Author: Orrin E. Klapp
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351515829
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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This volume presents three major social types in American society-heroes, villains, and fools-as models for American behaviour. Approaching these models primarily through language, Orrin E. Klapp explores what they may suggest about Americans as a people. Rather than study people, the author describes abstract types named and embedded in popular language. These social types are important symbols; and a way to attack a symbol is by identifying its meaning in various contexts. He further argues that the language surrounding heroes, villains, and fools reveals a social structure. We may not escape being ascribed a type, but we do have a choice of type. Known more commonly as "finding oneself," we can manipulate cues-with dress, facial expressions, style of life, or conspicuous public roles-to build an identity. This classic study has serious contemporary implications. For a public figure, an inevitable result of the typing process is the development of at least two selves, the public and the private. When the book originally appeared in 1962, the struggle to balance two images generally only plagued celebrities and politicians. Today, social media offers everyone the opportunity to develop an online persona. This volume will be of interest to sociologists as well as anyone who has a Facebook account.

Author: Edward Michael Whitty
Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Author: Beatrice K. Otto
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226640914
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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In this lively work, Beatrice K. Otto takes us on a journey around the world in search of one of the most colorful characters in history—the court jester. Though not always clad in cap and bells, these witty, quirky characters crop up everywhere, from the courts of ancient China and the Mogul emperors of India to those of medieval Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. With a wealth of anecdotes, jokes, quotations, epigraphs, and illustrations (including flip art), Otto brings to light little-known jesters, highlighting their humanizing influence on people with power and position and placing otherwise remote historical figures in a more idiosyncratic, intimate light. Most of the work on the court jester has concentrated on Europe; Otto draws on previously untranslated classical Chinese writings and other sources to correct this bias and also looks at jesters in literature, mythology, and drama. Written with wit and humor, Fools Are Everywhere is the most comprehensive look at these roguish characters who risked their necks not only to mock and entertain but also to fulfill a deep and widespread human and social need.

Author: Henry Llewellyn Williams
Publisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Author: Sydney Grundy
Publisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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