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A dissertation on the origin, nature, functions, and order of the priesthood of Christ
| Author | : John Wilson (minister at Montrose.) |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 486 |
| Release | : 1829 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
Kinds of Parody from the Medieval to the Postmodern
| Author | : Nil Korkut |
| Publisher | : Peter Lang |
| Total Pages | : 148 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Humor |
| ISBN | : 9783631592717 |
This book approaches parody as a literary form that has assumed diverse forms and functions throughout history. The author handles this diversity by classifying parody according to its objects of imitation and specifying three major parodic kinds: parody directed at texts and personal styles, parody directed at genre, and parody directed at discourse. The book argues that different literary-historical periods in Britain have witnessed the prevalence of different kinds of parody and investigates the reasons underlying this phenomenon. All periods from the Middle Ages to the present are considered in this regard, but a special significance is given to the postmodern age, where parody has become a widely produced literary form. The book contends further that postmodern parody is primarily discourse parody - a phenomenon which can be explained through the major concerns of postmodernism as a movement. In addition to situating parody and its kinds in a historical context, this book engages in a detailed analysis of parody in the postmodern age, preparing the ground for making an informed assessment of the direction parody and its kinds may take in the near future.
Boileau and the Nature of Neoclassicism
| Author | : Gordon Pocock |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 1980-06-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521227720 |
Boileau has traditionally been regarded as the spokesman of French neo-classicism, but some elements of scholarship have discounted the importance of neo-classical doctrine in general and of Boileau's particular contribution to it. Many critical approaches have stressed instead the liveliness and wit of Boileau's poems, his love of language and his passionate temperament. Mr Pocock uses these critical approaches to demonstrate in detail how Boileau's verve, love of contrasts, and essentially dramatic imagination animate the major poems. But he also argues that such approaches do not in themselves suffice to explain Boileau's special qualities. Neo-classicism was an important element in the intellectual life of Europe in the most critical period of the decline of Christianity and the rise of rationalism and science. Mr Pocock proposes a reformulation of those views which take account not only of modern criticism but also of Boileau's commitment to neo-classicism and his embodiment of it in his work.
National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Volume I
| Author | : Steven Huebner |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 465 |
| Release | : 2017-03-02 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1351915851 |
This volume covers opera in Italy, France, England and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914). The book is divided into four sections that are thematically, rather than geographically, conceived: Places-essays centering on contexts for operatic culture; Genres and Styles-studies dealing with the question of how operas in this period were put together; Critical Studies of individual works, exemplifying particular critical trends; and Performance.
Cervantes
| Author | : Jeremy Robbins |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2014-01-02 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1317984013 |
This volume commemorates the quatercentenary of Don Quijote (Part I, 1604-05), widely acknowledged to be the 'first modern novel'. Through Don Quijote, his Exemplary Novels and other major works, Cervantes, Spain's master novelist, has for centuries shaped and profoundly influenced the different literatures and cultures of numerous countries throughout the world. Containing chapters written in both English and Spanish by leading scholars worldwide, this book deals with topics as fundamental and diverse as contested discourses in Don Quijote, psychology and comic characters in Golden-Age literature, the title of Cervantes' master novel, and Cervantes, Shakespeare and the birth of metatheatre. A special issue of the journal Bulletin of Spanish Studies.
