Author: Jakub Kazecki
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443839493
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 205
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Laughter in the Trenches: Humour and Front Experience in German First World War Narratives explores the appearances and functions of humour and laughter in selected novels and short stories, based on autobiographical experiences, written by authors during the war and in the Weimar Era (1919–1933). This study focuses on popular and lesser-known works of German literature that played an important role in the socio-political life of the Weimar Republic: Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger (1920), Advance from Mons 1914 by Walter Bloem (1916), The Case of Sergeant Grischa by Arnold Zweig (1927), and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (1929). The author shows that these works often share surprisingly similar narrative strategies in describing humorous experiences and soldier laughter to justify direct violence and oppressive power structures, regardless of the works’ ideological assignment and their popular and critical reception. This book also examines the parodic imitations of All Quiet on the Western Front, the German text All Quiet on the Trojan Front by Emil Marius Requark (1930) and the American film So Quiet on the Canine Front by Zion Myers and Jules White (1931) as significant polemical contributions that use humoristic strategies to stress or undermine elements of the original text.
Author: Thomas Penrose Marks
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780718300555
Category : Gloucestershire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Author: Joey Camen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990342342
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Super-funny, but at times super-serious, this thought provoking autobiography is the life story of Joey Camen; a white Jewish kid growing up in black neighborhoods in Detroit, making his way into the world of Hollywood show business. The story follows Joey from a not so pleasant home life - dealing with an abusive father and oddball siblings - to leaving home at seventeen to become one of the youngest professional stand-up comedians ever...where Joey quickly found himself working nightly with comedians Richard Pryor, Robin Williams and many other famous names. Enjoy this up-and-down tale of survival, laughs, and heartache - engagingly written by someone who has spent four-plus decades in the world of entertainment and beyond. Joey Camen is a veteran stand-up comedian, voice talent, actor, author and award-winning short filmmaker. Joey's long career in performing arts encompasses everything from movies, to sitcoms, to Las Vegas showrooms. Joey has provided voices for many recognizable cartoon shows, commercials, movies and video games. Laughing Through the Pain is his second book. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Wendy.
Author: Seth William Bell Folsom
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612518729
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Where Youth and Laughter Go completes LtCol Seth Folsom’s recounting of his personal experiences in command over a decade of war. It is the culminating chapter of a trilogy that began with The Highway War: A Marine Company Commander in Iraq in 2006 and continued with In the Gray Area: A Marine Advisor Team at War in 2010. The chronicle of Folsom’s command of 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, “The Cutting Edge,” and his harrowing deployment to Afghanistan’s volatile Sangin District presents a deeper look into the complexities and perils of modern counterinsurgency operations in America’s longest war. Charged with the daunting task of pacifying a region with a long history of violence and instability, Folsom and his Marines struggled daily to wage a dynamic campaign against the shadowy enemy force that held Sangin’s population firmly in its grip. With peace and stability always teetering on the brink of collapse, the Marines of “The Cutting Edge” confronted their own mortality as they conducted endless patrols through Sangin’s minefields while fighting to win the hearts and minds of the Afghan villagers. No other books have been published from the perspective of a Marine infantry battalion commander in Afghanistan. It was Folsom’s job, as the unit commander, to lead his Marines under impossible circumstances. LtCol Folsom made the unusual decision to patrol with his rifle squads every day through Sangin, where his Marines dodged improvised explosive devices and sniper fire from an invisible enemy. As his tour progressed and casualties mounted, he found his objectivity evaporating and the love for his men growing. Where Youth and Laughter Go is more than a blood-and-guts war story, it is a jarring, “boots on the ground”–level examination of the myriad challenges and personal dilemmas that today’s young service members face as the United States approaches its final endgame in Afghanistan.
Author: Robert R. Provine
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101659254
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Do men and women laugh at the same things? Is laughter contagious? Has anyone ever really died laughing? Is laughing good for your health? Drawing upon ten years of research into this most common-yet complex and often puzzling-human phenomenon, Dr. Robert Provine, the world's leading scientific expert on laughter, investigates such aspects of his subject as its evolution, its role in social relationships, its contagiousness, its neural mechanisms, and its health benefits. This is an erudite, wide-ranging, witty, and long-overdue exploration of a frequently surprising subject.
Author: Military Service Institution of the United States
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Author: Ryan McCormick
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483432890
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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A man survives the horrors of World War One to be returned to the uncertainty of a country and century of contradictions. Trenches tells the story of Charles Smith, a man who sacrificed life and limb in The War to End All Wars, and his quest to recover his humanity and lost faith in a journey that spans the United States and the Twentieth Century. Follow Charles from the battlefields of France to the violently racist American South, and onward, as his path takes him to the Mid-west and the Pacific Northwest on his journey to reconnect with his comrades-in-arms, and to reconnect with a part of himself he though lost forever in a forest in the Argonne. Trenches is a memorable novel of one man's quest to find the better part of himself and of humanity.
Author: Clémentine Tholas-Disset
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137436433
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Humor and entertainment were vital to the war effort during World War I. While entertainment provided relief to soldiers in the trenches, it also built up support for the war effort on the home front. This book looks at transnational war culture by examining seemingly light-hearted discourses on the Great War.
Author: N.S Jordan
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1642981559
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Have you ever been chased by a ghost or felt one? Hounded by a reporter or a ghost chaser? Or be asked to check out a property to see if it's haunted? Ever chased a seller's runaway dog down the street in high heels or got bitten by one? From suburban deer hunting, tenants, naked homeowners, and stories that would make a good scene for a Hitchcock Thriller, to voodoo, hoodoo, and all kind of craziness. Get ready to read a collection of true stories that I couldn't dream up, even with my wildest imagination.
