Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Humor

Some of the best evidence for the early development of literary criticism before Plato and Aristotle comes from Athenian Old Comedy. Playwrights such as Eupolis, Cratinus, Aristophanes and others wrote numerous comedies on literary themes, commented on their own poetry and that of their rivals, and played around with ideas and theories from the contemporary intellectual scene. How can we make use of the evidence of comedy? Why were the comic poets so preoccupied with questions of poetics? What criteria emerge from comedy for the evaluation of literature? What do the ancient comedians'...

Some of the best evidence for the early development of literary criticism before Plato and Aristotle comes from Athenian Old Comedy. Playwrights such as Eupolis, Cratinus, Aristophanes and others wrote numerous comedies on literary themes, commented on their own poetry and that of their rivals, and played around with ideas and theories from the contemporary intellectual scene. How can we make use of the evidence of comedy? Why were the comic poets so preoccupied with questions of poetics? What criteria emerge from comedy for the evaluation of literature? What do the ancient comedians'...

Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Drawing on a wide range of Roman writing--from essays on rhetoric to a...

While Middle Eastern culture does not tend to be associated with laughter and levity in the global imagination, humor-often satirical-has long been a staple of mainstream Arabic film. In Humor in Middle Eastern Cinema, editors Gayatri Devi and Najat Rahman shed light on this tradition, as well as humor and laughter motivated by other intent-including parody, irony, the absurd, burlesque, and dark comedy. Contributors trace the proliferation of humor in contemporary Middle Eastern cinema in the works of individual directors and from the perspectives of genre, national cinemas, and...

From the popular legend of Pocahontas to the Civil War soap opera Gone with the Wind to countless sculpted heads of George Washington that adorn homes and museums, whole industries have emerged to feed America's addiction to imaginary histories that cover up the often violent acts of building a homogeneous nation. In Ersatz America, Rebecca Mark shows how this four-hundred-year-old obsession with false history has wounded democracy by creating language that is severed from material reality. Without the mediating touchstones of body and nature, creative representations of our...

The Amusing Bible is the first English adaptation of La Bible Amusante, written in french by Leo Taxil in 1897, which was suppressed from being translated into English or Spanish. It contains quotes from the Bible, comments by Voltaire, Lord Bolingbroke, Freret, Toland and over 400 illustrations by Frid'Rick.

The Amusing Bible is a powerful weapon against the clergy and their doctrine of the heavenly origin of the Bible, since it consistently points out the errors of the Bible. Do not expect a deep scientific criticism, since The Amusing Bible only points out those absurdities and...

The Amusing Bible is the first English adaptation of La Bible Amusante, written in french by Leo Taxil in 1897, which was suppressed from being translated into English or Spanish. It contains quotes from the Bible, comments by Voltaire, Lord Bolingbroke, Freret, Toland and over 400 illustrations by Frid'Rick.

The Amusing Bible is a powerful weapon against the clergy and their doctrine of the heavenly origin of the Bible, since it consistently points out the errors of the Bible. Do not expect a deep scientific criticism, since The Amusing Bible only points out those absurdities and...