Satire on Stone
Author | : Richard Samuel West |
Publisher | : Urbana : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Richard Samuel West |
Publisher | : Urbana : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Ismail Kadare |
Publisher | : Canongate Books |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2012-08-30 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0857863339 |
Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2013. In September 1943, Nazi troops advance on the ancient gates of Gjirokastër, Albania. The very next day, the Germans vanish without a trace. As the townsfolk wonder if they might have dreamt the events of the previous night, rumours circulate of a childhood friendship between a local dignitary and the invading Nazi Colonel, a reunion in the town square and a fateful dinner party that would transform twentieth-century Europe. A captivating novel of resistance in a dictatorship, and steeped in Albanian folklore, The Fall of the Stone City shows Kadare at the height of his powers.
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Total Pages | : 18 |
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Author | : Leslie A. Fiedler |
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Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1963 |
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Author | : Maura Stone |
Publisher | : Independently Published |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2021-04-23 |
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Nostalgia, the third book in the series, is the theme for the first half of 2013. The author, Maura Stone, visits her past, her present, and is actually prescient about the future. These individually selected. blog posts target different facets of her life dealing with her health, her neighbors, lovers, and poor customer service.
Author | : Oliver Stone |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781578063031 |
Ranging from 1981 to 1997, the 15 conversations featured in this collection reveal a man frustrated by what he sees as the hypocrisies of American politics, of conservatism, and of the Hollywood film industry. Though the subjects of "Nixon, JFK, Born on the 4th of July, The Doors", and "Heaven and Earth" are rooted in the turbulent 1960s, Stone as interviewee and filmmaker is firmly entrenched in the present. Film stills.
Author | : Silas Kaine Ezell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2016-05-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 131711941X |
This book examines contemporary American animated humor, focusing on popular animated television shows in order to explore the ways in which they engage with American culture and history, employing a peculiarly American way of using humor to discuss important cultural issues. With attention to the work of American humorists, such as the Southwest humorists, Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, and Kurt Vonnegut, and the question of the extent to which modern animated satire shares the qualities of earlier humor, particularly the use of setting, the carnivalesque, collective memory, racial humor, and irony, Humor and Satire on Contemporary Television concentrates on a particular strand of American humor: the use of satire to expose the gap between the American ideal and the American experience. Taking up the notion of ’The Great American Joke’, the author examines the discursive humor of programmes such as The Simpsons, South Park , Family Guy , King of the Hill, Daria, American Dad!, The Boondocks, The PJs and Futurama . A study of how animated television programmes offer a new discourse on a very traditional strain of American humor, this book will appeal to scholars and students of popular culture, television and media studies, American literature and visual studies, and contemporary humor and satire.
Author | : José Saramago |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 1996-06-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0547545312 |
A “marvelously amusing” political fable in which part of the European continent breaks off and drifts away on its own (Publishers Weekly, starred review). A Nobel Prize winner who has been called “the García Márquez of Portugal” (New Statesman) chronicles world events on a human scale in this exhilarating allegorical novel. One day, quite inexplicably, the Iberian Peninsula simply breaks free from the European continent and begins to drift as if it were a sort of stone raft. Panic ensues as residents and tourists attempt to escape, while crowds gather on cliffs to watch the newly formed island sail off into the sea. Meanwhile, five people on the island are drawn together—first by a string of surreal events and then by love. Taking to the road to explore the limits of their now finite land, they find themselves adrift in a world made new by this radical shift in perspective. As bureaucrats ponder what to do about their unusual predicament, the intertwined lives of these five strangers are clarified and forever changed by a physical, spiritual, and sexual voyage to an unknown destination. At once an epic adventure and a profound fable about the state of the European project, The Stone Raft is a “hauntingly lyrical narrative with political, social, and moral underpinnings” (Booklist) that “may be Saramago’s finest work” (Los Angeles Times). Translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero
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Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Freemasonry |
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Author | : Abraham Verghese |
Publisher | : Random House India |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2012-05-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 8184001754 |
Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.