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  1. New perspectives on women and comedy
    Contributor: Barreca, Regina (Publisher)
    Published: 1992
    Publisher:  Gordon and Breach, New York, NY [u.a.]

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    Contributor: Barreca, Regina (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 2881245331; 288124534X
    Series: Studies in gender und culture ; 5
    Subjects: American wit and humor; English wit and humor; Women and literature; Women comedians; Comic, The; Comedy
    Scope: XII, 244 S.
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    Literaturangaben

  2. De Quincey
    A Portrait
    Published: [1940]
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.

    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780674421080; 9780674427693
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    Subjects: English wit and humor / History and criticism; Wit and humor / History and criticism; Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft; English wit and humor; Wit and humor; Literatur; Humor; Aufsatzsammlung
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii,210p.)
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  3. Lyric Wonder
    Rhetoric and Wit in Renaissance English Poetry
    Published: [2019]; © 1997
    Publisher:  Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY

    James Biester sees the shift in late Elizabethan England toward a witty, rough, and obscure lyric style-metaphysical wit and strong lines-as a response to the heightened cultural prestige of wonder. That same prestige was demonstrated in the search... more

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    James Biester sees the shift in late Elizabethan England toward a witty, rough, and obscure lyric style-metaphysical wit and strong lines-as a response to the heightened cultural prestige of wonder. That same prestige was demonstrated in the search for strange artifacts and animals to display in the wonder-cabinets of the period.By embracing the genres of satire and epigram, poets of the Elizabethan court risked their chances for political advancement, exposing themselves to the danger of being classified either as malcontents or as jesters who lacked the gravitas required of those in power. John Donne himself recognized both the risks and benefits of adopting the'admirable'style, as Biester shows in his close readings of the First and Fourth Satyres.Why did courtier-poets adopt such a dangerous form of self-representation? The answer, Biester maintains, lies in an extraordinary confluence of developments in both poetics and the interpenetrating spheres of the culture at large, which made the pursuit of wonder through style unusually attractive, even necessary. In a postfeudal but still aristocratic culture, he says, the ability to astound through language performed the validating function that was once supplied by the ability to fight. Combining the insights of the new historicism with traditional literary scholarship, Biester perceives the rise of metaphysical style as a social as well as aesthetic event

     

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    ISBN: 9781501741272
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    Series: Rhetoric and Society
    Subjects: Poetry & Criticism; POETRY / Medieval; English language; English poetry; English wit and humor; Renaissance; Rhetoric, Renaissance; Poetik; Concetto; Lyrik; Renaissance; Metaphysical poets; Englisch; Rhetorik
    Scope: 1 online resource (240 pages)
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  4. The tremendous adventures of Major Gahagan
    Published: 199X
    Publisher:  Project Gutenberg, Champaign, Ill

    Hochschule für Gesundheit, Hochschulbibliothek
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0585152578; 9780585152578
    Subjects: English wit and humor; English wit and humor
    Scope: Online Ressource
  5. Some roundabout papers
    Published: 199X
    Publisher:  Project Gutenberg, Champaign, Ill

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    ISBN: 0585015546; 9780585015545
    Subjects: English wit and humor; English wit and humor
    Scope: Online Ressource
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    On some carp at Sans SouciDe juventute -- Round about the Christmas tree.

  6. Ridicule, religion and the politics of wit in Augustan England
    Published: c 2012
    Publisher:  Ashgate, Farnham [u.a.]

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 9781409437796
    RVK Categories: HK 1091
    Subjects: English wit and humor; Literature and society; English literature; Ridicule in literature; English literature
    Scope: IX, 248 S.
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    Literaturverzeichnis S. [219] - 237

    Introduction: defining the politics of wit -- The bite of leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and philosophic drollery -- Libertine wit and the Collier Stage controversy -- The titans of wit -- Shaftesbury and the gentility of wit -- The trammels of Christian wit -- The hermeneutics of censorship and the crime of wit.

  7. Cruelty and laughter
    forgotten comic literature and the unsentimental eighteenth century
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  The University of Chicago Press, Chicago [u.a.]

    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 9780226142548
    Subjects: Cruelty in literature; English wit and humor
    Scope: XIII, 362 S, Ill, 23 cm
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    Originally published: 2011

    Includes bibliographical references and index

  8. The tabloid Shakespeare
    Author: Page, Nick
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  HarperCollins, London

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    ISBN: 0002740532
    RVK Categories: HI 3325
    Subjects: Shakespeare; English wit and humor
    Scope: 151 S.
  9. Veins of humor
    Published: 1972
    Publisher:  Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Mass.

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    Series: Harvard English studies ; 3
    Subjects: English wit and humor; Wit and humor
    Scope: VIII, 284 S, 22 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references

  10. The language of humour
    Author: Nash, Walter
    Published: 1985
    Publisher:  Longman, London [u.a.]

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 0582291275
    Series: English language series ; 16
    Subjects: English wit and humor; English language; Literary style; Comic, The
    Scope: XIV, 181 S
  11. Last laughs
    perspectives on women and comedy
    Contributor: Barreca, Regina (Hrsg.)
    Published: 1988
    Publisher:  Gordon and Breach, New York u.a.

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    Contributor: Barreca, Regina (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0677220308; 0677220200
    Series: Studies in gender and culture ; 2
    Subjects: English literature; American literature; English wit and humor; American wit and humor; Women and literature; Comic, The
    Scope: 321 S, Ill
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    This material originally appeared as volume 15 (1-3) of the journal Women's studies"--T.p. verso

    Aus: Women's studies ; 15

  12. Variations on normal
    Published: 2014
    Publisher:  Square Peg, London

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    ISBN: 9780224098878
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    Subjects: English wit and humor
    Scope: [60] Bl., überw. Ill., 11 cm
  13. The Oxford book of humorous prose
    from William Caxton to P. G. Wodehouse ; a conducted tour
    Contributor: Muir, Frank (Hrsg.)
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

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    Contributor: Muir, Frank (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0192803794
    Edition: Reissued
    Subjects: English prose literature; American prose literature; English wit and humor; American wit and humor
    Scope: XXXIV, 1162 S., 20cm
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    Originally published: 1990

  14. The complete Clerihews
    Published: 1981
    Publisher:  Univ. Press, Oxford [u.a.]

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0192129783
    Subjects: English wit and humor
    Scope: XIX, 145 S., Ill.
  15. Thackeray's "English humourists" and "Four Georges"
    Published: (1985)
    Publisher:  Univ. of Delaware Pr. u.a., Newark

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0874132746
    Subjects: English literature; English wit and humor
    Other subjects: Thackeray, William Makepeace; Thackeray, William Makepeace; Thackeray, William Makepeace
    Scope: 278 S
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    Bibliography: p. 267-270

  16. The best of modern humor
    Contributor: Richler, Mordecai (Hrsg.)
    Published: 1983

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    177962
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    Contributor: Richler, Mordecai (Hrsg.)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 0394515315
    Subjects: American wit and humor; English wit and humor; American literature; English literature
    Scope: 542 S
  17. Toward a theory of Anglo-Saxon humor
    Old English riddles, poetry, prose, and illuminations
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Mellen, Lewiston, NY [u.a.]

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780773443006
    Subjects: English literature; English wit and humor
    Scope: IV, 140 S.
  18. The diary of Edward the Hamster, 1990 - 1990
    Published: [2012]
    Publisher:  Boxtree, London

    Universitätsbibliothek Duisburg-Essen
    ZZZK748170
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780752228037
    Subjects: Hamsters; English wit and humor
    Scope: iv, 83 Seiten, Illustrationen, 13 cm
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    Formerly CIP.

  19. The labyrinth of the comic
    theory and practice from Fielding to Freud
    Published: 1985
    Publisher:  Florida State Univ. Press, Tallahassee

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    03.h.8961
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 081300831X
    Subjects: English fiction; Comic, The, in literature; Humorous stories, English; English wit and humor; Comic, The
    Other subjects: Fielding, Henry; Kierkegaard, Søren; Freud, Sigmund
    Scope: X, 260 S
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    Bibliography: p. 245-253

  20. Metaphysical wit
    Published: 1991
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 0521340276
    Subjects: English poetry; English wit and humor; Comparative literature; Comparative literature; Metaphysics in literature; Englisch; Metaphysical poets
    Scope: XII, 270 S, Ill., 22 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-266) and index

  21. Cruelty and laughter
    forgotten comic literature and the unsentimental eighteenth century
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago ; Oxford University Press, Oxford

    A rollicking review of popular culture in 18th century Britain this text turns away from sentimental & polite literature to focus instead on the jestbooks, farces, comic periodicals variety shows & minor comic novels that portray a society in which... more

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    A rollicking review of popular culture in 18th century Britain this text turns away from sentimental & polite literature to focus instead on the jestbooks, farces, comic periodicals variety shows & minor comic novels that portray a society in which no subject was taboo & political correctness unimagined.

     

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    ISBN: 9780226146201
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    Subjects: Englisch; Komische Literatur; English wit and humor; Cruelty in literature
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 362 p.), Ill.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  22. Shopping as comedy
    a Victorian scrapbook
    Contributor: Easley, Alexis (Herausgeber); Parrett, Jeremy
    Published: 2024
    Publisher:  Routledge, London ; Taylor & Francis Group

    This volume is a critical edition of a Victorian scrapbook, composed of cuttings from advertising images from the 1880's. These images are arranged in hand-drawn domestic spaces and embellished with watercolour details. At the foot of each page is a... more

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    This volume is a critical edition of a Victorian scrapbook, composed of cuttings from advertising images from the 1880's. These images are arranged in hand-drawn domestic spaces and embellished with watercolour details. At the foot of each page is a handwritten running text, written by an unknown Victorian author, that provides a narrative to explain the accompanying images. The album also includes four original short stories, interspersed by twenty-three vignettes, which, like advertisements in a magazine, echo and reinforce themes in the surrounding content. The album highlights issues of concern to women at the fin de siècle: romance, marriage, shopping, and house decoration. The satirical commentary on late Victorian shopping and commodity culture provides a fascinating insight into the interests and responses of consumers during this period. The volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of literary and advertising history.

     

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    Contributor: Easley, Alexis (Herausgeber); Parrett, Jeremy
    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781032725864; 1032725869; 9781040021866; 1040021867; 9781040021859; 1040021859
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    Subjects: English wit and humor; Shopping; Advertising; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / General
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxviii, 152 pages), illustrations
  23. Thackeray's English humourists and four Georges
    Published: 1985
    Publisher:  Univ. of Delaware Pr. u.a., Newark

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  24. The labyrinth of the comic
    theory and practice from Fielding to Freud
    Published: 1985
    Publisher:  Florida State Univ. Press, Tallahassee

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  25. Bumf
    Author: Coren, Alan
    Published: 1984
    Publisher:  Robson, London

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 0860512916
    Edition: 1. publ. in Great Britain
    Subjects: Humorous prose in English, 1945- - Texts; English wit and humor
    Scope: 160 S.