Author: Rose ArnyPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Christopher NorthPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484519816
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Excerpt from Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Vol. 2 of 3 And hart, in the Clerk's Omoe of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Author: Rose ArnyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Thomas OarlylePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528476133
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Excerpt from Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Vol. 3 The healthy know not of their health, but only the sick this is the Physician's Aphorism; and applicable in a far wider sense than he gives it. We may say, it holds no less in moral, intellectual, political, poetical, than in merely cor poreal therapeutics; that wherever, or in what shape so ever, powers of the sort which can be named vital are at work, herein lies the test of their working right or working wrong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Category : Children's literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2006
Book Description
The Senses of Humor
Author: Daniel WickbergPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801454387
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Why do modern Americans believe in something called a sense of humor, and how did they come to that belief? Daniel Wickberg traces the relatively short cultural history of the concept to its British origins as a way to explore new conceptions of the self and social order in modern America. More than simply the history of an idea, Wickberg's study provides new insights into a peculiarly modern cultural sensibility. The expression "sense of humor" was first coined in the 1840s, and the idea that such a sense was a personality trait to be valued developed only in the 1870s. What is the relationship between medieval humoral medicine and this distinctively modern idea of the sense of humor? What has it meant in the past 125 years to declare that someone lacks a sense of humor? Why do modern Americans say it is a good thing not to take oneself seriously? How is the joke, as a twentieth-century quasi-literary form, different from the traditional folktale? Wickberg addresses these questions among others and in the process uses the history of ideas to throw new light on the way contemporary Americans think and speak about humor and laughter. The context of Wickberg's analysis is Anglo-American; the specifically British meanings of humor and laughter from the sixteenth century forward provide the framework for understanding American cultural values in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The genealogy of the sense of humor is, like the study of keywords, an avenue into a significant aspect of the cultural history of modernity. Drawing on a wide range of sources and disciplinary perspectives, Wickberg's analysis challenges many of the prevailing views of modern American culture and suggests a new model for cultural historians.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Vol. 3 of 4 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Thomas CarlylePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334504235
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Excerpt from Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Vol. 3 of 4 Tm: healthy know not of their health, but only the sick this is the Physician's Aphorism; and applicable in a far wider senw than he gives it. We may say, it holds no less in moral. Intellectual, political, poetical, than in merely cor [anal therapeutics; that wherever, or in what shape so rter. Powers of the sort which can be named vital are at turk. Herein lies the test of their working right or working wrong. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2432
Book Description
The Literary World
Author: Catalogue of the Keiogijuku Library
Author: 慶應義塾図書館Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Vol. 5 of 5 (Classic Reprint)
Author: Thomas CarlylePublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780365143581
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Excerpt from Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Vol. 5 of 5 Millions 'free' more and more to follow each his own nose, by way of guide-post in this intricate world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.