Manx land, a tourist's elysium

Manx land, a tourist's elysium PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Manx land, a tourist's elysium

Manx land, a tourist's elysium PDF Author:
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Pages : 72

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The Fairy-faith in Celtic Countries

The Fairy-faith in Celtic Countries PDF Author: Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 570

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In this study, which is first of all a folk-lore study, we pursue principally an anthropo-psychological method of interpreting the Celtic belief in fairies, though we do not hesitate now and then to call in the aid of philology; and we make good use of the evidence offered by mythologies, religions, metaphysics, and physical sciences.

The Sailor's Word-book

The Sailor's Word-book PDF Author: William Henry Smyth
Publisher: London : Blackie and son
ISBN:
Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 836

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The Book of the Cat

The Book of the Cat PDF Author: Frances Simpson
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Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Neo-Victorian Humour

Neo-Victorian Humour PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004336613
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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This volume highlights humour’s crucial role in shaping historical re-visions of the long nineteenth century, through modes ranging from subtle irony, camp excess, ribald farce, and aesthetic parody to blackly comic narrative games. It analyses neo-Victorian humour’s politicisation, its ideological functions and ethical implications across varied media, including fiction, drama, film, webcomics, and fashion. Contemporary humour maps the assumed distance between postmodernity and its targeted nineteenth-century referents only to repeatedly collapse the same in a seemingly self-defeating nihilistic project. This collection explores how neo-Victorian humour generates empathy and effective socio-political critique, dispensing symbolic justice, but also risks recycling the past’s invidious ideologies under the politically correct guise of comic debunking, even to the point of negating laughter itself. "This rich and innovative collection invites us to reflect on the complex and various deployments of humour in neo-Victorian texts, where its consumers may wish at times that they could swallow back the laughter a scene or event provokes. It covers a range of approaches to humour utilised by neo-Victorian writers, dramatists, graphic novelists and filmmakers – including the deliberately and pompously unfunny, the traumatic, the absurd, the ribald, and the frankly distasteful – producing a richly satisfying anthology of innovative readings of ‘canonical’ neo-Victorian texts as well as those which are potential generic outliers. The collection explores what is funny in the neo-Victorian and who we are laughing at – the Victorians, as we like to imagine them, or ourselves, in ways we rarely acknowledge? This is a celebration of the parodic playfulness of a wide range of texts, from fiction to fashion, whilst offering a trenchant critique of the politics of postmodern laughter that will appeal to those working in adaptation studies, gender and queer studies, as well as literary and cultural studies more generally." - Prof. Imelda Whelehan, University of Tasmania, Australia

Cracker Culture

Cracker Culture PDF Author: Grady McWhiney
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817304584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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A History Book Club Alternate Selection. "A controversial and provocative study of the fundamental differences that shaped the South ... fun to read", -- History Book Club Review

The Book of Cats

The Book of Cats PDF Author: Charles Henry Ross
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Category : Cats
Languages : en
Pages : 358

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The Magazine of Commerce and British Exporter

The Magazine of Commerce and British Exporter PDF Author:
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Category : Commerce
Languages : en
Pages : 730

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A Book of the Beginnings

A Book of the Beginnings PDF Author: Gerald Massey
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Category : Egyptian language
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Hy Brasil: The Metamorphosis of an Island

Hy Brasil: The Metamorphosis of an Island PDF Author: Barbara Freitag
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9401209103
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 343

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Brasil Island, better known as Hy Brasil, is a phantom island. In the fourteenth century Mediterranean mapmakers marked it on nautical charts to the west of Ireland, and its continued presence on maps over the next six hundred years inspired enterprising seafarers to sail across the Atlantic in search of it. Writers, too, fell for its lure. While English writers envisioned the island as a place of commercial and colonial interest, artists and poets in Ireland fashioned it into a fairyland of Celtic lore. This pioneering study first traces the cartographic history of Brasil Island and examines its impact on English maritime exploration and literature. It investigates the Gaelicization process that the island underwent in nineteenth century and how it became associated with St Brendan. Finally, it pursues the Brasil Island trope in modern literature, the arts and popular culture.