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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2017Spenserian satire
A tradition of indirection
by Series edited by J. B. Lethbridge, Rachel Hile, Joshua Samuel Reid
Scholars of Edmund Spenser have focused much more on his accomplishments in epic and pastoral than his work in satire. Scholars of early modern English satire almost never discuss Spenser. However, these critical gaps stem from later developments in the canon rather than any insignificance in Spenser's accomplishments and influence on satiric poetry. This book argues that the indirect form of satire developed by Spenser served during and after Spenser's lifetime as an important model for other poets who wished to convey satirical messages with some degree of safety. The book connects key Spenserian texts in The Shepheardes Calender and the Complaints volume with poems by a range of authors in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, including Joseph Hall, Thomas Nashe, Tailboys Dymoke, Thomas Middleton and George Wither, to advance the thesis that Spenser was seen by his contemporaries as highly relevant to satire in Elizabethan England.
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The ArtsJune 2017Terry Gilliam
by Peter Marks
Terry Gilliam presents a sustained examination of one of cinema's most challenging and lauded auteurs, proposing fresh ways of seeing Gilliam that go beyond reductive readings of him as a gifted but manic fantasist. Analysing Gilliam's work over nearly four decades, from the brilliant anarchy of his Monty Python animations through the nightmarish masterpiece Brazil to the provocative Gothic horror of Tideland, it critically examines the variety and richness of Gilliam's sometimes troubled but always provocative output. The book situates Gilliam within the competing cultural contexts of the British, European and American film industries, examining his regular struggles against aesthetic and commercial pressures. He emerges as a passionate, immensely creative director, whose work encompasses a dizzying array of material: anarchic satire, childhood and adult fantasy, dystopia, romantic comedy, surrealism, road movie, fairy tale and the Gothic. The book charts how Gilliam interweaves these genres and forms to create magical interfaces between reality and the illuminating, frightening but liberating worlds of the imagination. Scrutinising the neglected importance of literature and adaptation in Gilliam's career, this study also observes him through the lenses of auteurism, genre, performance, design and national culture, explaining how someone born in Minnesota and raised in California came to be one of British television and film's most compelling figures.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2024Sexual politics in revolutionary England
by Sam Fullerton
Sexual politics in revolutionary England recounts a dramatic transformation in English sexual polemic that unfolded during the kingdom's mid-seventeenth-century civil wars. In early Stuart England, explicit sexual language was largely confined to manuscript and oral forms by the combined regulatory pressures of ecclesiastical press licensing and powerful cultural notions of civility and decorum. During the early 1640s, however, graphic sex-talk exploded into polemical print for the first time in English history. Over the next two decades, sexual politics evolved into a vital component of public discourse, as contemporaries utilized sexual satire to reframe the English Revolution as a battle between licentious Stuart tyrants and their lecherous puritan enemies. By the time that Charles II regained the throne in 1660, this book argues, sex was already a routine element of English political culture.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2019Spenserian satire
by J. B. Lethbridge, Rachel Hile, Joshua Samuel Reid
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November 2016"Le sel antique": Epigramme, satire, théâtre et polémique / Das "Salz" der Antike: Epigramm, Satire, Theater, Polemik
Leur Réception chez les humanistes dans les sources imprimées et manuscrites du Rhin Supérieur / Ihre Rezeption bei den Humanisten: Drucke und Handschriften am Oberrhein
by Herausgegeben von Freyburger-Galland, Marie-Laure; Herausgegeben von Harich-Schwarzbauer, Henriette
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Children's & YAAugust 2020Cryptos
by Poznanski, Ursula
Where do we go when Nowhere is the only destination left? Kerrybrook is Jana‘s favourite virtual escape. An idyllic fishing village with beautiful nature and, every now and then, a breeze of fresh air from the nearby sea. Jana, is this world‘s designer and person in power, she’s satisfied with her masterpiece. Best job so far. Until one day, a dead body is found, in both, ’Virtual Reality‘ and the real world. In times of climate change, VR is the only safe place for humankind. That‘s why Jana needs to solve the crime, she’s responsible for stopping the destruction. • CliFi Thriller (Climate Fiction): Climate change & virtual reality • For fans of Black Mirror (Netflix) • All age readers • Strong, female protagonist • Highly relevant topic WHITE RAVENS recommendation (2021): "In the not too distant future, the world is an inhospitable place: droughts, storms, floods. That’s why world designers construct »alternative realities«, such as landscapes populated by dinosaurs, life at court in the Middle Ages, and surfing and chilling out on a beach. People can switch between these worlds at will and, when they die there, they are not truly dead; instead, they merely return to the »real world« – same as at night when they sleep. Then they are reunited with their body, which is lying inside a capsule. In »Cryptos«, Ursula Poznanski pulls out all the stops of storytelling: She embeds numerous references to human and intellectual history in an action-packed and extremely suspenseful thriller plot. In the process, she raises central existential and ontological questions that result from the interplay between the real and the virtual worlds. This complex dystopian novel is narrated in such an enjoyable way that readers will hardly notice their brains going into overdrive as they devour it."
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2022Micronutrient Depleters: Acid Blockers
Things to know about medicines and micronutrients
by Uwe Gröber and Prof. Dr. Klaus Kisters
This guide provides patients with important medical information about interactions of their drug products with vitamins and minerals. These interactions are not always listed in the accompanying package inserts. Those who take acid blockers such as omeprazole or pantoprazole may not only develop disorders relating to calcium, magnesium, vitamin D and bone metabolism in the long term, but above all become deficient in vitamin B12. This way, patients can improve their treatment, reduce the side effects of their medication and increase their quality of life!
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2021The daring muse of the early Stuart funeral elegy
by James Doelman
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Literature & Literary StudiesOctober 2022Comic Spenser
by Victoria Coldham-Fussell, Joshua Samuel Reid
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2024Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure
by Larry D Carver
Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochester's poems, dramatic works, and letters in a biographical context. In doing so, it sheds light on a central vexed issue in Rochester criticism, the relationship of the poet to his speaker. It also reveals that Rochester's work clusters about a central theme, the pursuit of pleasure, a pursuit motivated by a courtship of purity that grew out of Rochester's Christian and God-fearing upbringing. This rhetoric of courtship, in turn, reveals the unity of Rochester's work as the courtier and his various personae try to persuade his audiences, secular and divine, of his worth.
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Plays, playscriptsJanuary 2007Galatea and midas
John Lyly
by Edited by George Hunter and David Bevington
Galatea and Midas are two of John Lyly's most engaging plays. Lyly took up the story of two young women, Galatea (or Gallathea) and Phillida who are dressed up in male clothes by their fathers so that they can avoid the requirement of the god Neptune that every year 'the fairest and chastest virgin in all the country' be sacrificed to a sea-monster. Hiding together in the forest, the two maidens fall in love, each supposing the other to be a young man. Galatea has become the subject of considerable feminist critical study in recent years. Midas (1590) uses mythology in quite a different way, dramatising two stories about King Midas in such a way as to fashion a satire of King Philip of Spain (and of any tyrant like him) for colossal greediness and folly. In the wake of the defeat of Philip's Armada fleet and its attempted invasion of England in 1588, this satire was calculated to win the approval of Queen Elizabeth and her court.
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August 2010
Nationalsozialistische Satire und "Deutscher Humor"
Politische Bedeutung und Öffentlichkeit populärer Unterhaltung 1931-1945
by Merziger, Patrick
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February 2015Die Performativität der Satire bei Karl Kraus.
Zu seiner »geschriebenen Schauspielkunst«.
by Kouno, Eiji
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June 1998Strafrecht und Satire im Werk von Karl Kraus
by Reinhard Merkel
»Das Lebenswerk von Karl Kraus in den 37 Jahrgängen der Zeitschrift »Die Fackel« gilt heute als das klassische Beispiel einer kritisch-literarischen Begleitung der Zeitläufe, jener Zeitläufe, in denen sich das Unheil des 20. Jahrhunderts, Weltkriege und Faschismus, anbahnte. Bisher kaum berührt ist dabei, daß sich durch dieses Werk eine Auseinandersetzung mit rechtspolitischen, rechtsdogmatischen und prozessualen Strafrechtsproblemen als ununterbrochene Linie hindurchzieht. Merkel hat als rechtsphilosophisch und -theoretisch gebildeter Jurist, als Essayist und Journalist die doppelte Vorbildung, um diesen ›weißen Fleck‹ zwischen Literatur und Recht zu bearbeiten; er hat auch das zu diesem Thema und dem Gegenstand angemessene Engagement, um ein den Leser durch Klarheit der Linienführung, kritische Durchblicke und, natürlich, eine reflektierte und elegante Sprache fesselndes Werk zu schreiben. Den in mehreren Richtungen entfalteten Grundlegungen folgt ein Durchgang durch die von Karl Klaus behandelten strafrechtlichen Probleme und Deliktbereiche. Das geht vom Sittlichkeitsstrafrecht (in vielen Varianten) zum Wirtschafts- und Pressestrafrecht, zur Kindesmißhandlung und zum Strafverfahren. Hier entfaltet sich fast eine Chronik der Zeitgeschichte; viele Wertvorstellungen haben sich gewandelt, die menschlichen Grundkonstellationen (Gesellschaft, Polizei und Justiz) weit weniger.« (Gerhard Dilcher, »Neue Juristische Wochenschrift«)
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Literature & Literary StudiesJune 2022Critical theory and dystopia
by Patricia McManus, Darrow Schecter
Critical theory and dystopia offers a uniquely rich study of dystopian fiction, drawing on the insights of critical theory. Asking what ideological work these dark imaginings perform, the book reconstructs the historical emergence, consolidation and transformation of the genre across the twentieth century and into our own, ranging from Yevgeny Zamayatin's We (1924) and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932) to Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange (1963) and Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games series (2000s and 2010s). In doing so, it reveals the political logics opened up or neutered by the successive moments of this dystopian history.
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