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"Ben Jonson's Comical Satires And ""vetus Comoedia."""
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The Comical History of Don Quixote, Part 1: a Critical Edition
… promulgated the genre of musical comedy. The Comical History of Don Quixote (1694), D'Urfey's most successful work, was the first theatrical adaptation of Cervantes' novel. This thesis establishes a critical edition of D'Urfey's text.
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Thomas D'Urfey's the comical history of Don Quixote (1694-1695): a critical edition.
… una edición crítica de la trilogía teatral The Comical History of Don Quixote, escrita por Thomas D’Urfey entre 1694 y 1695, y cuya última edición data de principios del siglo XVIII. El propósito principal de la edición es ofrecer al lector contemporáneo una versión accesible del Don Quixote de …
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Holes and Other Stories
… obessions. These stories vary from slightly comical moments to disturbing displays of human behavior and attachment.
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The Concept of Dignity in the Early Science Fiction Novels of Kurt Vonnegut.
… aliens, and space travel, often in a comical manner, to demonstrate that the future, unless people change their concepts of humanity, will not be the paradise of advanced technology and human harmony that some may expect. In fact, Vonnegut suggests that the human condition may …
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Patriotic Attachment, Libidinal Economy, and Cosmopolitan Citizenship: A Qualified Defense of Patriotic Love
… as "fascist" and "nazi" retain light and even comical currency in contemporary pop culture despite the gravity of the events that produced them. Departing from this common usage, I consider within political and psychoanalytic frameworks the normative effects common understandings of fascism and …
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This Art Is For The Birds
… in the compositions. I couple humorous and comical depictions of birds with an attention to design. Although art making is a serious activity, I believe there is room for humor.
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The Quakers of County Tipperary 1655-1924
… man'. Although he mocked their quaint speech and comical clothing, he was attracted to their plain lifestyle and to their simple moral and spiritual values. Previous studies of Irish Quakers have focused on communities that were either exclusively urban or rural. However, the Tipperary Quakers …
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The stirrings still of popular forms of entertainment in Samuel Beckett's first published play : examining the influences of the Music-Hall, Vaudeville, Circus and Early screen comedy on Waiting for Godot
… that is as universal as it is devastatingly comical or, for that matter, comically devastating. Special attention is paid to Beckett's deployment and/or adaptation of: (a) the "multi-sensory" language of the clown of 'low' comedy; (b) vaudeville and the music-hall's self-referential stage and …
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Phenomenal Things
Phenomenal Things is a comical look into the daily lives of Internet of Things (IoT) artifacts and their experiences as social beings in cyberspace. This Augmented Reality (AR) experience presents a storyworld set in the digital realm where the digital personas of IoT artifacts are engaged in …
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Folklore for a New Generation: Charles Chesnutt's Updated Trickster Figure
… to his narrator, Julius McAdoo, to deliver a comical yet austere discussion of the ills of slavery. In <em>The Conjure Woman</em>, Chesnutt addresses the issues of forced separation of families, slave abuse, dark superstition and the ever-present peril of competition among slaves for limited …
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The Ha-Ha Holocaust: Exploring Levity Amidst the Ruins and Beyond in Testimony, Literature and Film
… their resurgence within a fictional, quasi-comical Holocaust and post-Holocaust settings, bridges a cultural schism. The reappearance of the dybbuk, of the schlemiel, and of the Chelmites becomes as damning as it is healing. Finally, even the notion of memory is called into question, …
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Freedom At The Freak Show: Carnivalesque Imagery In The Fiction Of Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor And Katherine Anne Porter
… the Virgin Mary, and outside of the tent, in a comical waiting room where the anti-Southern belle becomes a powerful prophet and the main character’s moves towards grace coincides with a move towards disfigurement. For O’Connor, the chaste religion associated with the protestant ideal of the …
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Gumiho: how I tried to give up eating human livers and love someone: an opera in two acts
… of rhythmic patterns. Villager 3 is a silly and comical character, and he always sings in a dance-like triple meter with a cheerful feel, even at the moment he is killed. Particular characters carry recurring themes throughout the piece; these are constructed with specific pitch sets, such as a …
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Les comedies-ballets de Moliere: genre de transition
… and the ballet de cour became a rather comical, loosely-united court spectacle whose main purpose was to please and flatter the nobility. However, if the ballet de cour did have more serious intentions, it took the form of social and political satire. Due to the great popularity of the …
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The exploitation of the epic realm of Roman satirists
… past that the epic genre represents, through a comical presentation of a stock satiric subject in ironically exaggerated epic terms, to a totally subversive parody of the epic genre itself.
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The Theatre of Anon: Julia Margaret Cameron, Virginia Woolf, and the Performance of Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King
… beginning with the eccentric, affected, and comical Cameron of Freshwater (1926) and ultimately portraying her as a dynamic, determined, and creative artist who helped provide inspiration for the character of the playwright-director Miss La Trobe of Between the Acts (1940). I argue that her …
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Seeing it Straight
<p>This Master of Fine Arts thesis is divided into four main sections:FAITH and DISBELIEF: In which I reckon with the implications of faith versus rationality as a secular nontheistic artist. IDEAS: The central locus of my work is a place of indeterminacy between what is known/familiar and what is …