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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"mockery"”.
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Courtship, Loe, and Marriage in Othello: Shakespeare's Mockery of Courtly Love
… the tradition of courtly love to emphasize mockery and satire as overall themes of the play. For example, Othello and Desdemona are presented first and foremost as lovers that uphold the conventions of courtly love—they try to keep their relationship as secretive as possible and Othello …
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Scholarly figures and the conventions of mockery on the early modern English stage
In this paper, I argue for the existence of a pervasive atmosphere of hostility toward knowledge workers in early modern England. My evidence consists of plays by Brome, Chapman, Heywood, Middleton, Shakespeare, and Sharpham; Ciceronian texts in the English grammar school curriculum, especially the …
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"He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh" : mockery and typology in Milton's poetry.
… the typological significance of the exchanges of mockery in Milton's major poetic works. Through engaging the affections, mockery has a crucial mediating role in Milton's poetry that connects reason and bodily appetites. In this way, mockery has a constructive purpose that far exceeds the …
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Lucian's New Old Comedy
… fantasy, alongside comic language and tropes of mockery, to not only declare himself a skilled comic author, but to demonstrate it as well. One by one, he uses the mythology that has sprung up around the three lights of Old Comedy: Cratinus, Aristophanes, and Eupolis, to remedy their faults, …
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Patyčios ir smurtas mokykloje /
… and violence problem. Usually bullying and mockery experience in corridors during the break. Most students trying not shown that bullying and mockery worries them, while 55% of eighth and 29% of ninth indicated that they are oppressors mockery at exactly the same response. Children either …
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Religion in the works of Heinrich Heine
… but then offend his readers with an outburst of mockery or blasphemy. With a mind so tormented, and a character so complex, it is no wonder that his writings present so many conflicting views. Only one positive trait stands out bravely and convincingly, which gives color and direction to all his …
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A descriptive analysis of indigenous Xitsonga music dance compound: A musicological approach
… for hoeing, weeding, reaping, for children, of mockery, during game, protests, by the fireside interspersed with folktales, love songs and so on. All these songs are immersed in culture-bound indigenous music. The indigenous music and dance of the Vatsonga play a vital role, not only in their …
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The paradox structure in humorous narrative: an analysis of intellectuals as comic heroes
… with an acute sense of humour and even bold self-mockery. Whether through the effect of joyful laughter or tearful laughter, these humorous texts tell the awkward but fascinating experiences of their heroes: their pursuit of higher-standard values and their final disappointment; their efforts and …
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Quakerism and approaches to mental affliction: a comparative study of George Fox and William Tuke
… unease and division, coupled with hostility or mockery from the wider society, resulted in a persistent Quaker ambiguity towards ‘madness’ – empathy towards unusual experiences with anxiety to disassociate the group from this mind-set.
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Strategies and Behaviors of Cyber Deviance and Internet Trolling
… be a response mechanism that consisted of heavy mockery and improvisation. This study indicates that trolls successfully disrupt and reroute conversations using a variety of mechanisms and techniques. General findings indicate that, while trolls may distract and derail public conversations, a …
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The "New" sounds of the slap-of-the-stick : Termite Terrace (1937-1943) and the slapstick tradition
… and its conventions of grotesque movement and of mockery and abuse of the body, have been developed across media, cultures, and eras. Accordingly, this thesis examines the comic routines or lazzi -independent and modular micronarratives- where the slapstick principles and conventions have been …
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A Study of Intra-Racial Violence Among Black Males: A Matter of "Diss"Respect
… (1) verbal insults/derogatory comments/mockery directed at the individual or a third party, openly or covertly; (2) being yelled at; (3) threats of physical harm or violence directed at the individual or a third party; and finally (4) physical infringements on personal boundaries and/or …
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The Korean Internet Freak Community and Its Cultural Politics, 2002–2011
… on the meaning-making process of self-reflexive mockery including the labels “Internet freak” and “surplus (human)” and gender politics based on sexuality focusing on gender ambiguous characters, called Nunhwa, as a means of collective identity-making, and I explore the exploitation of unpaid …
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A Critique of Critical Race Theory: a Textual Analysis of the ‘Mr. Gaijin’ Mask
… a source of fascination as well as ridicule and mockery. Approaching this mask as an analytical text, I ask: How is race manifested in the Japanese culture? C. W. Mills (1997) suggests that there exists a global system that privileges whites and normalizes their beneficial racial position. This …
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Verses, subverses and subversions in contemporary postcolonial poetry : the arts of resistance in the works of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Lesego Rampolokeng
… power. And finally, I look at crealisation, mockery and insubordination as strategies of resistance in the postapartheid poetry of Lesego Rampolokeng. Besides that, this project is concerned with the increasing importance of academic studies on postcolonial literatures. The present research …
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Ijime patyčių vaizdavimas anime: Koe no Katachi ir Sangatsu no Raion /
… when there is blackmailing, ostracism and mockery. The idea of this research is to investigate the types of bullying, the prevention types and character’s evolution in anime. As I said, it is a very common problem. Even the anime Sangatsu no Raion shows us that there are a lot of articles …
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Beneath Mark Twain: Judgments of Justice and Gender in Twain's Early Western Writing, 1861-1873
… male criminals and to punish them with literary mockery, and yet he also distrusted the female victims who seemed to place themselves in harm’s way and challenged Twain’s assumptions about gender and chastity.
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A critical examination of three Jane Austen fragments and their bearing on her completed novels
… caricature, the device of mistaken identity and. mockery of unchecked imagination, it seems like a return to the juvenilia, but new artistic directions are clearly evident. Playing with motifs of speculation, novelty, hypochondria and uncontrolled energy (mental, physical and verbal), Jane Austen …
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Seventh-day Adventism and Apocalyptic Political Dissent, 1898-1919
… enterprise for its complicity in making a mockery of both diplomacy and Christianity. Finally, chapter 4 considers the intense backlash against Adventists who were targeted by the US government for their subversive views during World War I. As Adventist apocalyptic beliefs were deemed …
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