The Holy Buy Bull
ISBN: 9781482057287 / Angielski / Miękka / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A lightly comedic offering that sprinkles serious questions throughout, The Holy Buy Bull throws and lands several well-deserved jabs on the jaw of the most widely-distributed and widely-read book of all time. If you are willing to suspend your lifelong system of biblical beliefs during this read, you just might catch yourself smiling and even laughing out loud as you consider The Old Testament from an entertainingly different perspective. More than anything else, this literary offering was written to make you think above and beyond the religious dogma that has been dogging your consciousness...
A lightly comedic offering that sprinkles serious questions throughout, The Holy Buy Bull throws and lands several well-deserved jabs on the jaw of th...
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82,33 zł |
Browne's Guide to Hacks
ISBN: 9781475199413 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A short Roman a Clef of London's Fleet Street and newspaper days in the 1970s and 1980s.
A short Roman a Clef of London's Fleet Street and newspaper days in the 1970s and 1980s.
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114,43 zł |
Loopholes: Reading Comically
ISBN: 9781412852517 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much writing about comedy tends to begin and end with Aristotle's claim that comedy is inferior to tragedy, trivializing comedy as cheap or as a temporary distraction from things that "really matter." Such writing either presents exhaustive taxonomies of kinds of humor-like wit, puns, jokes, humor, satire, irony-or engages in pointless political endgames, moral dialogues, or philosophical perceptions. Comedy is rarely presented as a mode of thought in its own right, as a way of understanding, not something to be understood. John Bruns' guiding assumption is that comedy is not simply a...
Much writing about comedy tends to begin and end with Aristotle's claim that comedy is inferior to tragedy, trivializing comedy as cheap or as a tempo...
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230,81 zł |
Things I Don't Want to Know: A Response to George Orwell's Why I Write
ISBN: 9781907903632 / Angielski / Twarda / 107 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinking about the sheer egoism of a female writer. Even the most arrogant female writer has to work over time to build an ego that is robust enough to get her through January, never mind all the way to December.' Deborah Levy
'Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinking about the sheer egoism of a female writer. Even t...
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67,22 zł |
Attention!: A (short) History
ISBN: 9781907903618 / Angielski / Twarda / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You've paid money for this book, or you have family or friends who don't mind your borrowing or who gift books like this. You are being attentive because you're interested in what type of person this gifter thinks you are - too attentive, to them, to yourself, or too inattentive.
You've paid money for this book, or you have family or friends who don't mind your borrowing or who gift books like this. You are being attentive beca...
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77,56 zł |
The Book of Lists: Horror: An All-New Collection Featuring Stephen King, Eli Roth, Ray Bradbury, and More, with an Introduction by Gahan Wilson
ISBN: 9780061537264 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The phenomenally popular Book of Lists series has sold millions of copies from coast to coast, enthralling trivia aficionados with fascinating infobits about simply everything Now the latest edition turns an evil eye toward the strange, the blood-curdling, and the macabre with spine-tingling fun facts from the dark side of entertainment. Chock-full of creepy information from the netherworlds of movies, TV, literature, video games, comic books, and graphic novels, The Book of Lists: Horror offers a blood-feast of forbidden knowledge that horror fans are hungry to devour,... The phenomenally popular Book of Lists series has sold millions of copies from coast to coast, enthralling trivia aficionados with fascinating info... |
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69,85 zł |
Comedy: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780199601714 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that writers and speakers enjoy - and risk - when they tell a joke, indulge in bathos, talk nonsense, or encourage irony?
This Very Short Introduction explores comedy both as a literary genre, and as a range of non-literary phenomena, experiences and events. Matthew Bevis studies the classics of comic drama, prose fiction and poetry, alongside forms of pantomime, comic opera, silent cinema, popular... To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abuse...
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46,53 zł |
No Joke: Making Jewish Humor
ISBN: 9780691149462 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish humor into being--and the price it may exact from its practitioners and audience. Wisse broadly traces modern Jewish humor around the world, teasing out its implications as she... Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish jo... |
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110,46 zł |
The Politics of Humour: Laughter, Inclusion, and Exclusion in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781442642928 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The period between the First World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall is often characterized as the age of extremes--while this era witnessed unprecedented violence and loss of human life, it also saw a surge in humorous entertainment in both democratic and authoritarian societies. The Politics of Humour examines how works such as satirical magazines and comedy films were used both to reaffirm group identity and to exclude those who did not belong. The period between the First World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall is often characterized as the age of extremes--while this era witnessed unpr... |
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230,86 zł |
Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice
ISBN: 9781611476439 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice presents the most current international scholarship on the complexity and subversive potential of women s comedic speech, literature, and performance. Earlier comedy theorists such as Freud and Bergson did not envision women as either the agents or audiences of comedy, only as its targets. Only more recently have scholarly studies of comedy begun to recognize and historicize women s contributions to and political uses of comedy. The essays collected here demonstrate the breadth of current scholarship on gender and comedy, spanning centuries of...
Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice presents the most current international scholarship on the complexity and subversive potential of women s ...
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740,12 zł |
Humanist Comedy
ISBN: 9780300197518 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world's religious beliefs and practices. From the ancient Greek comedies of Aristophanes, the famous poem by Lucretius, and dialogues of Cicero to early modern and Enlightenment essays and philosophical texts, together with the inherent skepticism about life after death in tragicomedies by Plautus, Shakespeare, Moliere, and nineteenth-century novels by such as Dickens and Hugo, the literary critic and historian Alexander Welsh analyzes the prevalence of openness of mind and relieving good humor in Western...
For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world's religious beliefs and practices. From the ancient Gree...
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275,37 zł |
Satire
ISBN: 9780415480819 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is satire? How can we define it? Is it a comic tool or a political weapon? Is Satire funny or cruel? Does it always need a target or victim? Combining thematic, theoretical and historical approaches, John Gilmore introduces and investigates the tradition of satire from classical models through to the present day. In a lucid and engaging style, Gilmore explores: the moral politics of satire whether satire is universal, historically or geographically limited how satire translates across genres and media the boundaries of free speech and legitimacy. Using examples including the literature...
What is satire? How can we define it? Is it a comic tool or a political weapon? Is Satire funny or cruel? Does it always need a target or victim? Com...
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550,92 zł |
The Modern Satiric Grotesque and Its Traditions
ISBN: 9780813156194 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thomas Mann predicted that no manner or mode in literature would be so typical or so pervasive in the twentieth century as the grotesque. Assuredly he was correct. The subjects and methods of our comic literature (and much of our other literature) are regularly disturbing and often repulsive -- no laughing matter. In this ambitious study, John R. Clark seeks to elucidate the major tactics and topics deployed in modern literary dark humor. In Part I he explores the satiric strategies of authors of the grotesque, strategies that undercut conventional usage and form: the de-basement of... Thomas Mann predicted that no manner or mode in literature would be so typical or so pervasive in the twentieth century as the grotesque. Assuredly... |
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145,24 zł |
El humor de Borges
ISBN: 9781500328689 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Era un hombre de rostro sereno que vestia infatigablemente traje y corbata. Su ceguera se apoyaba en un baston pulsado por las manos de poeta. Concibio libros admirables cuyo destino fue dar mas luz a la literatura. Escribio un poema en que lamenta no haber sido feliz y donde afirma que siempre lo persiguio: la sombra de haber sido desdichado. Sin embargo, ese personaje distante en apariencia prodigaba alegria cuando conversaba."
Era un hombre de rostro sereno que vestia infatigablemente traje y corbata. Su ceguera se apoyaba en un baston pulsado por las manos de poeta. Concibi...
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59,17 zł |
Humor: A Reader for Writers
ISBN: 9780199362684 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Read. Write. Oxford.
From Jerry Seinfeld's legendary standup to Kristen Wiig's sidesplitting impersonations, Humor: A Reader for Writers explores the key patterns and features within numerous comedic sources in order to show how jokes work. This survey looks at comedy in a variety of genres including popular media, academic essays, personal narratives, fiction, and poetry. Developed for the freshman composition course, Humor: A Reader for Writers includes an interdisciplinary mix of public, academic, and cultural reading selections, providing students with the rhetorical knowledge and... Read. Write. Oxford.
From Jerry Seinfeld's legendary standup to Kristen Wiig's sidesplitting impersonations, Humor: A Reader for Writers explores ... |
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373,15 zł |
de Medicos, Poetas, Locos... y Los Otros
ISBN: 9781463392635 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La Historia con H mayuscula, la Historia seria, de nariz parada y chistera pulcra y bien planchada, que lucha por ser Ciencia, tambien con mayuscula, ha debido conformarse, aunque le moleste a algunos academicos, con entrar a formar parte de las denominadas "ciencias blandas," y como tal sobrevive, pero existe otra historia, esta vez con h minuscula, a la que llaman intrahistoria, formada por anecdotas, cartas privadas, comentarios, observaciones al paso, opiniones mas o menos respetables, chismes, chistes, habladurias y cuanta cosa resulta dificil, imposible casi siempre, de ser probada,...
La Historia con H mayuscula, la Historia seria, de nariz parada y chistera pulcra y bien planchada, que lucha por ser Ciencia, tambien con mayuscula, ...
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93,30 zł |
de Medicos, Poetas, Locos... y Los Otros
ISBN: 9781463392642 / Hiszpański / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La Historia con H mayuscula, la Historia seria, de nariz parada y chistera pulcra y bien planchada, que lucha por ser Ciencia, tambien con mayuscula, ha debido conformarse, aunque le moleste a algunos academicos, con entrar a formar parte de las denominadas "ciencias blandas," y como tal sobrevive, pero existe otra historia, esta vez con h minuscula, a la que llaman intrahistoria, formada por anecdotas, cartas privadas, comentarios, observaciones al paso, opiniones mas o menos respetables, chismes, chistes, habladurias y cuanta cosa resulta dificil, imposible casi siempre, de ser probada,...
La Historia con H mayuscula, la Historia seria, de nariz parada y chistera pulcra y bien planchada, que lucha por ser Ciencia, tambien con mayuscula, ...
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176,47 zł |
No Joke: Making Jewish Humor
ISBN: 9780691165813 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking--as well as the brilliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S. Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth. At the same time, Wisse draws attention to the precarious conditions that call Jewish humor into being--and the price it may exact from its practitioners and audience. Wisse broadly traces modern Jewish humor around the world, teasing out its implications as she... Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In this book, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish jo... |
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99,36 zł |
What is Information?: Propagating Organization in the Biosphere, Symbolosphere, Technosphere and Econosphere
ISBN: 9781608889969 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is information? A fitting question given the importance of information and the central role it plays in the economic and cultural life at the beginning of the 21st Century. It is said that we live in the Information Age, a claim that is hard to dispute given the ubiquity of the vast array of information technology (IT) at our disposal to generate, communicate, interpret and exploit information. We are surrounded by information thanks to computing and the digital "new media" such as the Internet, the Web, blogs, email, instant messaging, text messaging, cell phones, VOIP, Web cams, iPods,...
What is information? A fitting question given the importance of information and the central role it plays in the economic and cultural life at the beg...
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107,63 zł |
50 Shades of Wow: A ridiculous '50 Shades of Grey' parody
ISBN: 9781508492481 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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25,45 zł |