Author: Henry Louis MenckenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A Book of Burlesques
Author: Henry Louis MenckenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
A Book of Burlesques
Author: Henry Louis MenckenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burlesques
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A Book of Burlesques
Author: H. L. MenckenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258827861
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
A Book of Burlesques
Author: Henry Louis MenckenBurlesque
Author: John D. JumpPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351630660
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- 2017 Reprint Acknowledgement -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- 1 Definitions -- 2 Travesty -- 3 Hudibrastic -- 4 Parody -- 5 The Mock-Poem -- 6 Dramatic Burlesque -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Burlesques (drawings).
Author: Henry Mayo BatemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caricatures and cartoons
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
A Book of Burlesques
Author: H. L. MenckenPublisher:
ISBN: 9781433088124
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
A Book of Burlesques
Author: H. L. MenckenPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781973985761
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
A pedal point on B flat is heard at the end of this fugue, sounded fortissimo by all the brass in unison, and then follows a grand pause, twelve and a half measures in length. Then, in the strings, is heard the motive of warning:
Horrible Prettiness
Author: Robert AllenPublisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860085
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Robert Allen's compelling book examines burlesque not only as popular entertainment but also as a complex and transforming cultural phenomenon. When Lydia Thompson and her controversial female troupe of "British Blondes" brought modern burlesque to the United States in 1868, the result was electric. Their impertinent humor, streetwise manner, and provocative parodies of masculinity brought them enormous popular success--and the condemnation of critics, cultural commentators, and even women's rights campaigners. Burlesque was a cultural threat, Allen argues, because it inverted the "normal" world of middle-class social relations and transgressed norms of "proper" feminine behavior and appearance. Initially playing to respectable middle-class audiences, burlesque was quickly relegated to the shadow-world of working-class male leisure. In this process the burlesque performer "lost" her voice, as burlesque increasingly revolved around the display of her body. Locating burlesque within the context of both the social transformation of American theater and its patterns of gender representation, Allen concludes that burlesque represents a fascinating example of the potential transgressiveness of popular entertainment forms, as well as the strategies by which they have been contained and their threats defused.
A Book of Burlesques (Classic Reprint)
Author: H. L. MenckenPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781391029122
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Excerpt from A Book of Burlesques 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.