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Polite essays / Ezra Pound.
Published 1966Table of Contents: “…Eliot's solid merit -- 'Abject and utter farce' -- The teacher's mission -- A letter from Dr. …”
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The odd one in : on comedy / Alenka Zupančič.
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…The concrete universal -- The absolute on the couch -- The universal-at-work -- The comedy of Christ -- Physics of the infinite against metaphysics of the finite -- Figures of comedy -- The ego and the it -- The ego and the ego -- The other and the other -- Conceptualizations -- Another turn of the bergsonian screw -- Structural dynamics and temporality of the comical -- Repetition -- Between tragedy and farce -- Conceptual stakes of repetition : Deleuze and Lacan -- Return to comedy -- (Essential) appendix: Phallus -- Enjoyment ex machina.…”
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Beyond Bogotá : diary of a drug war journalist in Colombia / Garry Leech.
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Entering La macarena; my detention -- My introduction to Latin America; a Salvadoran nightmare -- The Panama invasion; Colombia's two faces-- generosity and greed; Indigenous villages and oil in Ecuador -- Welcome to Farclandia; Commander Simon Trinidad and the rebel perspective; a meeting with Erika, a teenage FARC guerrilla; Geraldo Rivera visits the rebel safe haven -- Investigating plan Colombia; AUC commander Luis Enrique and the paramilitary perspective; a body in a hole -- The displayed in Barranca; Gregorio and the landmine; the cocaine lab; collusion and murder in Puerto Asis -- 9/11 and the war on terror; detained by Carlos Castaño's paramilitaries; the battle for Saravena, Colombia's "little Sarajevo" -- Displaced Afro-Colombian communities of The Chocó: the Bellavista tragedy; the plight of the Indigenous Embera -- The Plan Patriota offensive; the new coca plant; the predicament of Colombian journalists; Plan Colombia becomes Plan Petroleum -- Mining multinationals and human rights; the displacement of Tabaco; Indigenous massacres in La Guajira and Nariño -- My release; chemical warfare in La Macarena -- Jungle rendezvous with FARC commander Raúl Reyes; the prospects for peace.…”
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Blinded by the light / Dermot Bolger.
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Ionesco : a collection of critical essays / edited by Rosette C. Lamont.
Published 1973Table of Contents: “…Eugene Ionesco and the metaphysical farce.…”
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A critic's notebook / Irving Howe ; edited and introduced by Nicholas Howe.
Published 1994Table of Contents: “…-- Five instances of characterization -- The common reader -- Criticism of fiction -- Dickens: three notes -- Farce and fiction -- History and the novel: variations on a theme -- Kipling's Kim: ecstasies -- Naturalism and taste -- Novels of academic life -- Obscurity in the novel -- Punitive novels -- Walter Scott: falling out of the canon -- The self in literature -- Style and the novel: some preliminary paragraphs -- Tolstoy: five comments -- Tone in fiction.…”
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Lady dicks and lesbian brothers : staging the unimaginable at the WOW Café Theatre / Kate Davy.
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Introducing WOW: "A miracle on E. 4th Street" -- Women are laughing again: allied farces -- Sex, drag, and rock 'n' roles: the festivals -- Feminist space and a system of anarchy: the storefront -- Staging the unimaginable: New York's East Village club scene -- Challenging whiteness: the fourth-floor walk-up -- "Learning to walk on our hands" -- Appendix: WOW Production history.…”
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Theatrical nation : Jews and other outlandish Englishmen in Georgian Britain / Michael Ragussis.
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Note on performance histories -- One: "Family quarrels" -- Two: "Cutting off tongues": Multiethnic spectacle and ethnic passing -- Three: "Cheeld o'Commerce": Merchants, Jews, and fathers in a commercial nation -- Four: "Circumcised Gentiles," On stage and off -- Five: Novel performances and "the Slaves of Art" -- Six: "For our English eyes": Regendering ethnic performance in the novel -- Epilogue: New scenes for old farces.…”
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"The Nose" : a stylistic and critical companion to Nikolai Gogol's story / Ksana Blank.
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Gogol' "Nos" -- Annotations to the Russian text -- How "The Nose" is made: language game as the engine of the plot -- Interpretations. Joke, jest, farce, anecdote ; Social satire ; Mockery of the demonic and of the sacred ; Chronicle of folk superstitions ; A case of castration anxiety ; An echo of German romanticism ; Perfect nonsense ; Shostakovich's opera The Nose ; A play with reality: "The Nose," Kafka, and Dali.…”
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Contes de la bécasse / Guy de Maupassant.
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Couverture -- Page de Copyright -- Page de titre -- La Bécasse -- Ce cochon de Morin -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- La Folle -- Pierrot -- Menuet -- La Peur -- Farce normande -- Les Sabots -- La Rempailleuse -- En mer -- Un Normand -- Le Testament -- Aux champs -- Un coq chanta -- Un fils -- Saint-Antoine -- L'aventure de Walter Schnaffs.…”
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The Comedy of Errors (Propeller Shakespeare).
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Cast and Production Team; Edward Hall on Propeller; Farce and Humanity: The Comedy of Errors; Designing: The Comedy of Errors; Music in: The Comedy of Errors; This Edition; The Comedy of Errors; Scene One; Scene Two; Scene Three; Scene Four; Scene Five; Scene Six; Scene Seven; Scene Eight; Scene Nine; Scene Ten; Scene Eleven.…”
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An experienced woman gives advice / Iain Heggie.
Published 1995Full text (Emerson users only)
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Lux in tenebris / Bertolt Brecht ; translated by Eva Geiser and Ernest Borneman.
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Real phonies and genuine fakes : poems / Nicky Beer.
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Mis/takes : archetype, myth and identity in screen fiction / Terrie Waddell.
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…Analytical psychology and myth : the bigger picture -- Mutability, identities and the farce of fixity : trickster -- The obscure by the more obscure : Mulholland drive -- Setting the conditions for forgetting : Memento -- The undead, psychopomps and filicide : The others -- Dana immaculate and divine children : The X-files -- Libidinal frenzy : Twin peaks -- Incest by goomah/daughter proxy : The Sopranos -- Motherly and slatternly creatures : Spider -- The fear of exposure and connection : Intimacy -- Grotesques, Bakhtin and rupture : Absolutely fabulous.…”
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Unseen Upton Sinclair : nine unpublished stories, essays and other works / Upton Sinclair ; edited by Ruth Clifford Engs.
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Introduction: a biography of Upton Sinclair -- Part I: Woman suffrage and emancipation -- Suffragetteland -- One woman's fight -- The emancipated husband: a one-reel comedy -- Part II: Defying sexual convention -- An unmarried mother -- Eugenic celibate motherhood -- An experimental honeymoon -- Part III: Search for health -- The health hunters: a farce comedy in four acts -- Restore and keep your health by controlling emotions -- "Little Algernon" fragments.…”
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