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A modest proposal and other satires / by Swift, Jonathan,1667-1745.(CARDINAL)137883;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Humor.; Political satire, English.; Religious satire, English.;
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A modest proposal for preventing the children of poor people from being a burthen to their parents, or the country, and for making them beneficial to the publick / by Swift, Jonathan,1667-1745.(CARDINAL)137883; Swift, Jonathan,1667-1745.(CARDINAL)137883;
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Humor.; Political satire, English.; Religious satire, English.;
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A modest proposal and other satirical works / by Swift, Jonathan,1667-1745.(CARDINAL)137883;
The battle of the books (1697) -- A meditation upon a broomstick (1701) -- A discourse concerning the mechanical operation of the spirit (1704) -- An argument against abolishing Christianity in England (1708) --A modest proposal (1729).
Subjects: Humor.; Religious satire, English.; Political satire, English.;
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Surprised by laughter / by Lindvall, Terry.(CARDINAL)387602;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-422).Part 1: The idea and the legacy -- The deadly dissection -- Perspectives -- Fathers and sons -- Grandfather of mirth and gladness -- Humor of the self -- Part 2: Joy -- Sehnsucht -- Joy and suffering -- Laughter of reunions -- Joy and hierarchy -- A joyful noise -- Laughter as thanksgiving -- Heaven -- Part 3: Fun -- The quiddity of life -- Humor and humility -- Gravity and levity -- Food and drink -- Adventures and games -- The fun in nature -- Wild play -- The fun of reading -- Wordplay -- Part 4: The joke proper -- Wit and wordplay -- The word made joke -- Comic techniques and topics -- Taboo humor -- The vernacular and the vulgar -- The oldest joke -- Falling from Frauendienst -- Sex and marriage -- Part 5: Satire and flippancy -- A storehouse of satire -- The sword of satire -- Flippancy -- Part 6: Conclusion: the laughter of love -- A divine comedy.
Subjects: Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963; Christianity and literature; Christian literature, English; Fantasy literature, English; Satire, English; Comic, The, in literature.; Satire;
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Tartuffe, comedy in five acts, 1669 / by Molière,1622-1673.(CARDINAL)140562; Wilbur, Richard,1921-2017,translator.(CARDINAL)138358;
NPRichard Wilbur's verse translation of Tartuffe has been acclaimed as a masterpiece in its own right. Set in rhymed couplets, it captures not only the tone of the original but the dramatic energy as well. Not surprisingly, the play in this translation has been performed regularly over the years. One of Moliere's most popular plays, Tartuffe, written in 1669, tells the story of Orgon, a rich bourgeois who has become a prude and bigot in his middle age. He is the perfect mark for Tartuffe, a wily opportunist and swindler, who ingratiates himself with Orgon by affecting an air of piety. Soon the gulled Orgon not only hands over his fortune but offers his daughter in marriage to Tartuffe. But Orgon discovers his "spiritual" master's true nature in a most shocking and hilarious fashion.
Subjects: Fiction.; Comedy plays.; Drama.; Humor.; French drama; French drama (Comedy); Clergy; Hypocrisy; Impostors and imposture; Prejudices; Satire; French drama; French drama (Comedy);
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An introduction to Medieval English literature : 1300-1485 / by Baldwin, Anna P.(CARDINAL)525213;
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- 1. The Poor Commons: literature and social change -- 2. The Poor Commons: education and dissent -- 3. The Urban Middle Class: Satire, Debate and Political Advice -- 4. The Urban Middle Class: Tales of Women and Marriage -- 5. The community of the Church: religious lyrics and the English mystics -- 6. Religious and Moral Stories -- 7. Aristocratic Love -- 8. Chivalric Romances -- Further Reading."This book provides an informative, critical and concise introduction to the literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, contextualising the literature and introducing the pre-eminent authors of the period. "--
Subjects: English literature; Civilization, Medieval, in literature.;
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The preaching fox : festive subversion in the plays of the Wakefield Master / by Edminster, Warren,1966-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-220) and index.
Subjects: Towneley plays.; Anti-clericalism in literature.; Church in literature.; Clergy in literature.; English drama (Comedy); Festivals; Kings and rulers in literature.; Literature and society; Mysteries and miracle-plays, English; Political plays, English; Satire, English; Social norms in literature.;
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The new sins = Los nuevos pecados : translated out of the original tongues with the former translations diligently compared and revised = extraído de las lenguas originales basándos en traducciones anteriores meticulosamente comparado y rectificado / by Byrne, David,1952-(CARDINAL)290319;
Subjects: Humor.; Sins; Religious satire.; Conduct of life; American wit and humor.; Spanish language materials;
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The complete English poems / by Donne, John,1572-1631.(CARDINAL)143319; Smith, A. J.(Albert James),1924-1991(CARDINAL)893134;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 26-32) and indexes.Songs and sonnets -- Elegies -- Epithalamions or marriage songs -- Epigrams -- Satires -- The progress of the soul (Metempsychosis) -- Epicedes and obsequies -- The anniversaries -- Divine poems.No poet has been more wilfully contradictory than John Donne, whose works forge unforgettable connections between extremes of passion and mental energy. From satire to tender elegy, from sacred devotion to lust, he conveys an astonishing range of emotions and poetic moods. Constant in his work, however, is an intensity of feeling and expression and complexity of argument that is as evident in religious meditations such as 'Good Friday 1613. Riding Westward' as it is in secular love poems such as 'The Sun Rising' or 'The Flea'. 'The intricacy and subtlety of his imagination are the length and depth of the furrow made by his passion, ' wrote Yeats, pinpointing the unique genius of a poet who combined ardour and intellect in equal measure.
Subjects: Poetry.;
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Molière : the complete Richard Wilbur translations. by Molière,1622-1673,author.(CARDINAL)140562; Wilbur, Richard,1921-2017,translator.(CARDINAL)138358; Gopnik, Adam,writer of introduction.(CARDINAL)148737; Gioia, Dana,interviewer.(CARDINAL)729808;
"One of the most accomplished American poets of his generation, Richard Wilbur (1921-2017) was also a prolific translator of French and Russian literature. His verse translations of Molïre's plays are especially admired by readers and are still performed today in theaters around the world. Wilbur, the critic John Simon once wrote, makes Molïre into as great an English verse playwright as he was a French one. Now, for the first time, all ten of Wilbur's unsurpassed translations of Molïre's plays are brought together in two-volume Library of America edition, fulfilling the poet's vision for the translations. The second volume includes the elusive masterpiece, The Misanthrope, often said to occupy the same space in comedy as Shakespeare's Hamlet does in tragedy; the fantastic farce Amphitryon, about how Jupiter and Mercury commandeer the identities of two mortals; Tartuffe, Molïre's biting satire of religious hypocrisy; and The Learned Ladies, like Tarfuffe, a drama of a household turned suddenly upside down. This volume includes the original introductions by Richard Wilbur and an introduction by Adam Gopnik on the exquisite art of Wilbur's translations."--
Subjects: Drama.; Molière, 1622-1673.; Courtship; French drama.;
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