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Author | : Michelle O'Callaghan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 15 |
Release | : 2007-02-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139462563 |
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In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries the Inns of Court and fashionable London taverns developed a culture of clubbing, urban sociability and wit. The convivial societies that emerged created rituals to define social identities and to engage in literary play and political discussion. Michelle O'Callaghan argues that the lawyer-wits, including John Hoskyns, in company with authors such as John Donne, Ben Jonson and Thomas Coryate, consciously reinvigorated humanist traditions of learned play. Their experiments with burlesque, banquet literature, parody and satire resulted in a volatile yet creative dialogue between civility and licence, and between pleasure and the violence of scurrilous words. The wits inaugurated a mode of literary fellowship that shaped the history and literature of sociability in the seventeenth century. This study will provide many insights for historians and literary scholars of the period.
Author | : Leonard Russell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Wits |
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Author | : Leonard Russell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : English wit and humor |
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Author | : Stephen Budiansky |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : World War, 1939-1945 |
ISBN | : 0684859327 |
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"This is the story of the Allied codebreakers puzzling through the most difficult codebreaking problems that ever existed.
Author | : Rosemarie Jarski |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : English wit and humor |
ISBN | : 0091906318 |
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Arranged thematically--from Class and Character, Sex and Snobbery, to the Foreigner's Eye View--here is the definitive collection of the British nation's funniest quotations. Among the many great and good who dazzle us with their wit are Martin Amis, Jane Austen, Billy Connolly, Quentin Crisp, Roald Dahl, John Lennon, Queen Victoria, and Oscar Wilde.
Author | : Jane Solomon |
Publisher | : Frances Lincoln Children's Books |
Total Pages | : 115 |
Release | : 2019-05-02 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : 1786038102 |
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What is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates...? Find out all this and more in The Dictionary of Difficult Words. Test your knowledge with more than 400 words to amaze, confuse, and inspire budding wordsmiths (and adults). All of the words featured in this book are difficult to spell, hard to say, and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! Written with simple, easy-to-understand definitions by lexicographer Jane Solomon, this dictionary celebrates the beauty of the English language for family trivia time spent around the printed page.
Author | : SIR DESMOND. MacCARTHY |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 1953 |
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Author | : Leonard Russell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : English wit and humor |
ISBN | : 9780804609753 |
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Author | : Leonard RUSSELL |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1941 |
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Author | : Edward Arber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : English literature |
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