Techniques of Satire: The Case of Saltykov-Ščedrin
Author: Emil Draitser File Type: pdf What evokeslaughter? Why is somethingfunny? As readers, we frequently pose such questions. Literary scholars more often than not, however, try to pass thesequestions on to their colleagues in other fields--to philosophers, psychologists and sociologists. And yet, the comic in literaturepossesses its own system of rules and devices, that is to say, the poetics of the comic. Emil Draitser analyses the devices that make literaryworksfunny. Notions of the comic and of laughter advanced bythinkers as diverse as Bergson, Freud, and Koestler provide the necessarytheoretical framework for his considerationof Saltykov-Shchedrin. Draitsers book also representsthefirst monograph in Englishon this major nineteenth-century satirist.**
Author: Richard White
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bThe Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America.bAt the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious North envisioned the countrys future as a free-labor republic, with a homogenous citizenry, both black and white. The South and West were to be reconstructed in the image of the North. Thirty years later Americans occupied an unimagined world. The unity that the Civil War supposedly secured had proved ephemeral. The country was larger, richer, and more extensive, but also more diverse. Life spans were shorter, and physical well-being had diminished, due to disease and hazardous working conditions. Independent producers had become wage earners. The country was Catholic and Jewish as well as Protestant, and increasingly urban and industrial. The dangerous classes of the very rich and poor expanded, and deep differences -- ethnic, racial, religious, economic, and political -- divided society. The corruption that gave the Gilded Age its name was pervasive. These challenges also brought vigorous efforts to secure economic, moral, and cultural reforms. Real change -- technological, cultural, and political -- proliferated from below more than emerging from political leadership. Americans, mining their own traditions and borrowing ideas, produced creative possibilities for overcoming the crises that threatened their country. In a work as dramatic and colorful as the era it covers, White narrates the conflicts and paradoxes of these decades of disorienting change and mounting unrest, out of which emerged a modern nation whose characteristics resonate with the present day.
Author: Janet Cotterill
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Sociolinguists and lawyers will find insight and relevance in this account of the language of the courtroom, as exemplified in the criminal trial of O.J. Simpson. The trial is examined as the site of linguistic power and persuasion, focusing on the role of language in (re)presenting and (re)constructing the crime. In addition to the trial transcripts, the book draws on Simpsons post-arrest interview, media reports and post-trial interviews with jurors. The result is a unique multi-dimensional insight into the Trial of the Century from a linguistic and discursive perspective.
Author: Drew Milne
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In Darkest Capital gathers all of Drew Milnes poems up to 2017, including two major uncollected sequences, Blueprints & Ziggurats and Lichens for Marxists. A Scottish poet working out of the modernist avant-garde, through pop and art rock, Milne moves between Beckett and Brecht, through punk and beyond. Along the way there are homages to Mina Loy, Gertrude Stein, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Frank OHara, Kurt Schwitters, Ian Hamilton Finlay, John Cage and Tom Raworth. His poems do not break down into form and content but insist on a continuity between lyrical purpose and critical thinking. An ark of ecological resistances to late capitalism, Milnes Collected Poems captures the skewed luxuriance (Guardian) of his eco-socialist poetics.
Author: Nathan Widder
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Recent philosophical debates have moved beyond proclamations of the &death of philosophy& and the &death of the subject& to consider more positively how philosophy can be practiced and the human self can be conceptualized today. Inspired by the writings of Nietzsche, Bergson, and Deleuze, rapid changes related to globalization, and advances in evolutionary biology and neuroscience, these debates have generated a renewed focus on time as an active force of change and novelty. Rejecting simple linear models of time, these strands of thought have provided creative alternatives to a traditional reliance on fixed boundaries and stable identities that has proven unable to grapple with the intense speeds and complexities of contemporary life. In this book, Nathan Widder contributes to these debates, but also goes significantly beyond them. Holding that current writings remain too focused on time&s movement, he examines more fundamentally time&s structure and its structural ungrounding, releasing time completely from its traditional subordination to movement and space. Doing this enables him to reformulate entirely the terms through which time and change are understood, leading to a radical alteration of our understandings of power, resistance, language, and the unconscious, and taking post-identity political philosophy and ethics in a new direction.Eighteen independent but interlinked reflections engage with ancient philosophy, mathematical theory, dialectics, psychoanalysis, archaeology, and genealogy. The book&s broad coverage and novel rereadings of key figures&including Aristotle, Bergson, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Deleuze&make this a unique rethinking of the nature of pluralism, multiplicity, and politics.
Author: Samuel Freeman
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John Rawls is the most significant and influential moral philosopher of the twentieth century. His work has profoundly affected contemporary discussions of social, political and economic justice in philosophy, law, political science, economics and other social disciplines. In this collection of new essays, many of the worlds leading political and moral theorists discuss the full range of Rawlss contribution to the concepts of political and economic justice, democracy, liberalism, constitutionalism and international justice.ReviewWell organized and accessible, this collection of essays provides a thorough overview of each aspect of Rawls thought, making it a welcome addition to any academic library. It also includes an excellent bibliography. Recommended. ChoiceI recommend this book to those interested in the metaphysics of possible worlds. It is a very complete study of possible worlds ... well considered and well argued for. Philosophy in Review Book DescriptionJohn Rawls is the most significant and influential philosopher and moral philosopher of the 20th century. His work has profoundly shaped contemporary discussions of social, political and economic justice in philosophy, law, political science, economics and other social disciplines. In this exciting collection of new essays, many of the worlds leading political and moral theorists discuss the full range of Rawlss contribution to the concepts of political and economic justice, democracy, liberalism, constitutionalism, and international justice. New readers will find this the most accessible guide to Rawls currently available.
Author: Gail Mazur
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In this series of new poems Gail Mazur takes stock-of the complexity of relationships between parents and children, the desires of the body as well as its frailties, the distinctions between memory and history, and the hope of art to capture these seemingly inscrutable realities. By turns mordant and passionate, narrative and meditative, Mazurs poems imply that life, with all of its losses, triumphs, and abrasive intimacies, is far richer and more elaborately metaphorical than poetry can aspire to be-and yet her poems do affectingly recreate this reality. These illuminating poems are the work of an acclaimed poet at the top of her form.(Phoenix Poets)
Author: Hal Gold
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This is a riveting and disturbing account of the medical atrocities performed in and around Japan during WWII. Some of the cruelest deeds of Japans war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of the continent. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments. In the first part of Unit 731 Testimony author Hal Gold draws upon a painstakingly accumulated reservoir of sources to construct a portrait of the Imperial Japanese Armys most notorious medical unit, giving an overview of its history and detailing its most shocking activities. The second half of the book consists almost entirely of the worlds of former unit members themselves, taken from remarks they made at a traveling Unit 731 exhibition held around Japan in 199495. **ReviewA fascinating but disturbing read. The author splits this book up into two sections, the first being the history of the unit and the second testimonies from those who served in it. Coming into this book with only a basic knowledge of what this unit represented I walked away with a good understanding of it. The author tackles what is a difficult subject matter in a engaging manner that brings the full horror of live human experimentation and all that it encompasses to the readers attention. All in all a well balanced read. GoodreadsAbout the Author Hal Gold compiled the information in Unit 731 from information provided by the Central Organizing Committee for the Unit 731 Exhibitions in Tokyo, 19941995