ilość książek w kategorii: 38802
Best of Bad Hemingway: Vol 1: Choice Entries from the Harry's Bar & American Grill Imitation Hemingway Competition
ISBN: 9780156118613 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The rules of the competition are simple: sound like Hemingway and be funny. A "Trophy Room" section here includes Papa parodies from the past by F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. B. White, Raymond Chandler, et al. Introduction by George Plimpton; caricatures.
The rules of the competition are simple: sound like Hemingway and be funny. A "Trophy Room" section here includes Papa parodies from the past by F. Sc...
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68,67 zł |
The Education of H*y*m*a*n K*a*p*l*a*n
ISBN: 9780156278119 / Angielski / Miękka / 1968 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The humorous adventures of Hyman Kaplan, the irrepressible student at the American Night Preparatory School for Adults, and his personal war with the English language. A classic work of american humor.
The humorous adventures of Hyman Kaplan, the irrepressible student at the American Night Preparatory School for Adults, and his personal war with the ...
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68,67 zł |
American Humor
ISBN: 9780195042122 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The paramount question answered in this absorbing collection of essays is: What's so funny about American humor, and why? What are American humor's characteristics? How have they evolved and displayed themselves? Which characteristics are distinctively, or even uniquely, American? Originally appearing as an issue of the American Quarterly, these essays take a close look at American humor from revolutionary times to the present day, and particularly focus on the neglected trends of the past fifty years. Looking at American comic figures as diverse--and even surprising--as Mark Twain...
The paramount question answered in this absorbing collection of essays is: What's so funny about American humor, and why? What are American humor's ch...
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329,21 zł |
American Humor
ISBN: 9780195050547 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The paramount question answered in this absorbing collection of essays is: What's so funny about American humor, and why? What are American humor's characteristics? How have they evolved and displayed themselves? Which characteristics are distinctively, or even uniquely, American? Originally appearing as an issue of the American Quarterly, these essays take a close look at American humor from revolutionary times to the present day, and focus particularly on the neglected trends of the past fifty years. Looking at American comic figures as diverse--and even surprising--as Mark Twain...
The paramount question answered in this absorbing collection of essays is: What's so funny about American humor, and why? What are American humor's ch...
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165,29 zł |
Untying the Knot: On Riddles and Other Enigmatic Modes
ISBN: 9780195101867 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and Shulman have drawn these essays from a variety of cultural perspectives and disciplines; linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, and religion and literature scholars consider riddling practices in Hebrew, Finnish, Indian languages, Chinese, and classical Greek. The authors seek to understand the peculiar expressive power of the riddle, and the cultural logic of its particular uses; they scrutinize the riddle's logical structure and linguistic...
This book collects eighteen previously unpublished essays on the riddle--a genre of discourse found in virtually every human culture. Hasan-Rokem and ...
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825,62 zł |
The Benchley Roundup: A Selection by Nathaniel Benchley of His Favorites
ISBN: 9780226042183 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Robert C. Benchley's sketches and articles, published in periodicals like "Life," "Vanity Fair," and "The New Yorker," earned him a reputation as one of the sharpest humorists of his time; his influence on contemporaries such as E. B. White, James Thurber, and S. J. Perelman, or followers like Woody Allen, Steve Martin, and Richard Pryor has left an indelible mark on the American comic tradition. "The Benchley Roundup "collects those pieces, selected by Benchley's son Nathaniel, "which seem to stand up best over the years"-a compendium of the most endearing and enduring work from one of...
Robert C. Benchley's sketches and articles, published in periodicals like "Life," "Vanity Fair," and "The New Yorker," earned him a reputation as one ...
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80,33 zł |
The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate
ISBN: 9780226100234 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Creation versus evolution. Nature versus nurture. Free will versus determinism. Every November at the University of Chicago, the best minds in the world consider the question that ranks with these as one of the most enduring of human history: latke or hamantash? This great latke-hamantash debate, occurring every year for the past six decades, brings Nobel laureates, university presidents, and notable scholars together to debate whether the potato pancake or the triangular Purim pastry is in fact the worthier food.
What began as an informal gathering is now an institution that has been... Creation versus evolution. Nature versus nurture. Free will versus determinism. Every November at the University of Chicago, the best minds in the wor...
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216,73 zł |
The Great Latke-Hamantash Debate:
ISBN: 9780226100241 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Creation versus evolution. Nature versus nurture. Free will versus determinism. Every November at the University of Chicago, the best minds in the world consider the question that ranks with these as one of the most enduring of human history: latke or hamantash? This great latke-hamantash debate, occurring every year for the past six decades, brings Nobel laureates, university presidents, and notable scholars together to debate whether the potato pancake or the triangular Purim pastry is in fact the worthier food.
What began as an informal gathering is now an institution that has been... Creation versus evolution. Nature versus nurture. Free will versus determinism. Every November at the University of Chicago, the best minds in the wor...
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48,20 zł |
Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters
ISBN: 9780226112312 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Abe and his friend Sol are out for a walk together in a part of town they haven't been in before. Passing a Christian church, they notice a curious sign in front that says "$1,000 to anyone who will convert." "I wonder what that's about," says Abe. "I think I'll go in and have a look. I'll be back in a minute; just wait for me." Sol sits on the sidewalk bench and waits patiently for nearly half an hour. Finally, Abe reappears. "Well," asks Sol, "what are they up to? Who are they trying to convert? Why do they care? Did you get the $1,000?" Indignantly Abe replies, "Money. That's...
Abe and his friend Sol are out for a walk together in a part of town they haven't been in before. Passing a Christian church, they notice a curious si...
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45,52 zł |
Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War
ISBN: 9780252070297 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This reprint makes one of America's greatest humorists--and one of America's greatest humorous characters--available again to the public.
This reprint makes one of America's greatest humorists--and one of America's greatest humorous characters--available again to the public.
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101,69 zł |
The Best of Kin Hubbard: Abe Martin's Sayings and Wisecracks, Abe's Neighbors, His Almanack, Comic Drawings
ISBN: 9780253210074 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "This is an absolutely delightful book.... Hubbard is considered to be a regional humorist, but like all really good humorists, he speaks to everyone." Humor: International Journal of Humor Research "Now an then an innocent man is sent t' th legislature." "When a feller says, It hain t th money, but th principle o th thing, it s the money." During the early years of this century, the fictional Abe Martin became one of the most popular cracker-barrel philosophers this country has ever known. First created for the Indianapolis News by Kin Hubbard, the humorous and sometimes... "This is an absolutely delightful book.... Hubbard is considered to be a regional humorist, but like all really good humorists, he speaks to everyo... |
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66,09 zł |
Wry Harvest: An Anthology of Midwest Humor
ISBN: 9780253218728 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. If you live in the Midwest, you have to know how to laugh. Tornados, floods, drought, and miles and miles of flat land: if you don't have a sense of humor, you might want to consider living somewhere else. Humor is as natural to the Midwest as cow pats and corn mazes, seed caps and road kill, Johnny Carson and David Letterman. This book gathers some of the best stories from the humorists of the big belly of America, past and present. Here are Mark Twain, George Ade, Finley Peter Dunne, Don Marquis, and Ring Lardner; James Thurber, Ruth McKenney, Erma Bombeck, Calvin Trillin, and... If you live in the Midwest, you have to know how to laugh. Tornados, floods, drought, and miles and miles of flat land: if you don't have a sense o... |
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81,34 zł |
Nervous Laughter: Television Situation Comedy and Liberal Democratic Ideology
ISBN: 9780275940508 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Critically analyzing four decades of television situation comedies from The Honeymooners to The Bill Cosby Show, Hamamoto shows how the sitcom reflects, explains, legitimates, and challenges the society in which it is grounded, illumining the power of laughter both to reaffirm and to question existing social structures. . . . Hamamoto offers a well-researched and refreshingly lucid study, immensely readable for its astute scholarship. Indispensable for students and scholars of television, popular culture, and comedy. "Choice" "Nervous Laughter" examines forty years of situation comedy,... Critically analyzing four decades of television situation comedies from The Honeymooners to The Bill Cosby Show, Hamamoto shows how the sitcom refl... |
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216,73 zł |
Irony and the Discourse of Modernity
ISBN: 9780295969985 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Behler discusses the current state of thought on modernity and postmodernity, detailing the intellectual problems to be faced and examining the positions of such central figures in the debate as Lyotard, Habermas, Rorty, and Derrida. He finds that beyond the "limits of communication," further discussion must be carried out through irony. The historical rise of the concept of modernity is examined through discussions of the querelle des anciens et des modernes as a break with classical tradition, and on the theoretical writings of de Stael, the English romantics, and the great German... Behler discusses the current state of thought on modernity and postmodernity, detailing the intellectual problems to be faced and examining the pos... |
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152,57 zł |
Over the Lip of the World: Among the Storytellers of Madagascar
ISBN: 9780295981154 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Gifted travel writer, poet, professor of English, and insightful observer of human nature, Colleen McElroy journeyed to Madagascar to undertake a Fulbright research project exploring Malagasy oral traditions and myths. In Over the Lip of the World she depicts with equal verve the various storytelling traditions of the island and her own adventures in trying to find and record them. McElroy's tale of an African American woman's travels among the people of Madagascar is told with wit, insight, and humor. Throughout it she interweaves English translations of Malagasy stories of... Gifted travel writer, poet, professor of English, and insightful observer of human nature, Colleen McElroy journeyed to Madagascar to undertake a F... |
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111,87 zł |
Essays on American Humor: Blair Through the Ages
ISBN: 9780299136246 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Walter Blair, this book claims, was the literary scholar who, almost single-handedly, gave the study of American humour significance in the academic world. By categorising the writings of American literary humourists into such diverse styles as the Old Southwest, Local Colour and Literary Comedian humour - each having serious social import - Blair abolished the notion that they were all practicing the same kind of intellectual irreverence. Moving through more than six decades of Walter Blair's work, this book aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to the discipline he developed.
Walter Blair, this book claims, was the literary scholar who, almost single-handedly, gave the study of American humour significance in the academic w...
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64,21 zł |
So OLE Said to Lena: Folk Humor of the Upper
ISBN: 9780299173746 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the land of beer, cheese, and muskies where the polka is danced and winter is unending and where Lutherans and Catholics predominate everybody is ethnic, the politics are clean, and the humor is plentiful. This collection includes jokes, humorous anecdotes, and tall tales from ethnic groups (Woodland Indians, French, Cornish, Germans, Irish, Scandinavians, Finns, and Poles) and working folk (loggers, miners, farmers, townsfolk, hunters, and fishers). Dig into the rich cultural context supplied by the notes and photographs, or just laugh at the hundreds of jokes gathered at small-town... In the land of beer, cheese, and muskies where the polka is danced and winter is unending and where Lutherans and Catholics predominate everybody i... |
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138,27 zł |
Fruited Plain: Fables for a Postmodern Democracy
ISBN: 9780300092905 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The beleaguered Joad family of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath struggled in an era of disappointed dreams and empty pockets. But how might the grandchildren of that Dust Bowl generation fare in today's more promising times? In this boisterously inventive book Alvin Kernan sends various descendants of the original Joad family on a postmodern journey out of California and into the excesses of American culture at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The experiences of today's Joads are as hilarious as they are discomfiting: they encounter in Kernan's America a world of democracy gone...
The beleaguered Joad family of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath struggled in an era of disappointed dreams and empty pockets. But how might the gran...
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445,20 zł |
Memoirs of a Mangy Lover
ISBN: 9780306811043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Here are Groucho's improbable tales of true romance, narrated with his characteristic panache and illustrated with splendid New Yorker-esque cartoons.
Here are Groucho's improbable tales of true romance, narrated with his characteristic panache and illustrated with splendid New Yorker-esque ca...
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85,85 zł |
The Boston Driver's Handbook: The Almost Post Big Dig Edition
ISBN: 9780306813269 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An entertaining survival manual for drivers facing the treacherous streets of Boston or for those wanting to drive like a Bostonian
An entertaining survival manual for drivers facing the treacherous streets of Boston or for those wanting to drive like a Bostonian
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85,85 zł |