Author: Kenneth Varty
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571814227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
There are many stories featuring the villainous hero Reynard the Fox in many languages told over many centuries, goingback as far as the early 12th century. All these stories are comic and much of the humour depends on parody and satire resulting in mockery, sometimes the subversion of certain kinds of serious literature, of political and religious institutions and practices, of scholarly argument and moralizing, and of popular beliefs and customs. The contributors to this volume, all of them experts in one or more of the Reynard stories and their backgrounds, focus on the transformation of these tales through various media and to what extent they reflect differences in the cultural, class, and generational background of their tellers.
Reynard the Fox
Author: Kenneth Varty
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571814227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
There are many stories featuring the villainous hero Reynard the Fox in many languages told over many centuries, goingback as far as the early 12th century. All these stories are comic and much of the humour depends on parody and satire resulting in mockery, sometimes the subversion of certain kinds of serious literature, of political and religious institutions and practices, of scholarly argument and moralizing, and of popular beliefs and customs. The contributors to this volume, all of them experts in one or more of the Reynard stories and their backgrounds, focus on the transformation of these tales through various media and to what extent they reflect differences in the cultural, class, and generational background of their tellers.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571814227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
There are many stories featuring the villainous hero Reynard the Fox in many languages told over many centuries, goingback as far as the early 12th century. All these stories are comic and much of the humour depends on parody and satire resulting in mockery, sometimes the subversion of certain kinds of serious literature, of political and religious institutions and practices, of scholarly argument and moralizing, and of popular beliefs and customs. The contributors to this volume, all of them experts in one or more of the Reynard stories and their backgrounds, focus on the transformation of these tales through various media and to what extent they reflect differences in the cultural, class, and generational background of their tellers.
A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art
Author: Thomas Wright
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Category : Caricature
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Category : Caricature
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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Public Opinion
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Category : World politics
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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Category : World politics
Languages : en
Pages : 1002
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Athenaeum
Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Languages : en
Pages : 856
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“The” Athenaeum
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Languages : en
Pages : 856
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Languages : en
Pages : 856
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The Cambridge Introduction to Satire
Author: Jonathan Greenberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107030188
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive overview for both beginning and advanced students of satiric forms from ancient poetry to contemporary digital media.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107030188
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive overview for both beginning and advanced students of satiric forms from ancient poetry to contemporary digital media.
Twilight of the Idols
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603848800
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Twilight of the Idols presents a vivid, compressed overview of many of Nietzsche’s mature ideas, including his attack on Plato’s Socrates and on the Platonic legacy in Western philosophy and culture. Polt provides a trustworthy rendering of Nietzsche’s text in contemporary American English, complete with notes prepared by the translator and Tracy Strong. An authoritative Introduction by Strong makes this an outstanding edition. Select Bibliography and Index.
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603848800
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Twilight of the Idols presents a vivid, compressed overview of many of Nietzsche’s mature ideas, including his attack on Plato’s Socrates and on the Platonic legacy in Western philosophy and culture. Polt provides a trustworthy rendering of Nietzsche’s text in contemporary American English, complete with notes prepared by the translator and Tracy Strong. An authoritative Introduction by Strong makes this an outstanding edition. Select Bibliography and Index.
On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History
Author: Thomas Carlyle
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Category : Heroes
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Category : Heroes
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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The Discovery of King Arthur
Author: Geoffrey Ashe
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805001150
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The author offers convincing proof that King Arthur existed by tracing the legend of King Arthur to its roots in the 12th century chronicles of Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805001150
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The author offers convincing proof that King Arthur existed by tracing the legend of King Arthur to its roots in the 12th century chronicles of Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Short Studies on Great Subjects
Author: James Anthony Froude
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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