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The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History, and Methodology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Daniel Derrin, Hannah Burrows The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History, and Methodology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Daniel Derrin, Hannah Burrows
R4,617 Discovery Miles 46 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This handbook addresses the methodological problems and theoretical challenges that arise in attempting to understand and represent humour in specific historical contexts across cultural history. It explores problems involved in applying modern theories of humour to historically-distant contexts of humour and points to the importance of recognising the divergent assumptions made by different academic disciplines when approaching the topic. It explores problems of terminology, identification, classification, subjectivity of viewpoint, and the coherence of the object of study. It addresses specific theories, together with the needs of specific historical case-studies, as well as some of the challenges of presenting historical humour to contemporary audiences through translation and curation. In this way, the handbook aims to encourage a fresh exploration of methodological problems involved in studying the various significances both of the history of humour and of humour in history.

Samuel Johnson and the Powers of Friendship: A.D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin, Dani Napton Samuel Johnson and the Powers of Friendship
A.D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin, Dani Napton
R4,465 Discovery Miles 44 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is the first to assess Johnson’s diverse insights into friendship—that is to say, his profound as well as widely ranging appreciation of it—over the course of his long literary career. It examines his engagements with ancient philosophies of friendship and with subsequent reformulations of or departures from that diverse inheritance. The volume explores and illuminates Johnson’s understanding of friendship in the private and public spheres—in particular, friendship’s therapeutic amelioration of personal experience and transformative impact upon civil life. Doing so, it considers both his portrayals of interaction with his friends, and his more overtly fictional representations of friendship, across the many genres in which he wrote. It presents at once an original re-assessment of Johnson’s writings and new interpretations of friendship as an element of civility in mid-eighteenth century British culture.

Pope's Mythologies - Alexander Pope and Myth in the Early British Enlightenment (Hardcover): A.D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin Pope's Mythologies - Alexander Pope and Myth in the Early British Enlightenment (Hardcover)
A.D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin
R4,005 Discovery Miles 40 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first book to discuss the canon of Pope's verse in relation to Early British Enlightenment thinking about mythology and mythography. The book shows how Pope did not merely use classical and non-classical myths but also translated and refashioned them too. It situates Pope's mythologies within changing seventeenth and eighteenth-century understandings of what myth is and what it could be. It therefore offers a distinct a new perspective on the career of eighteenth-century Britain's preeminent poet.

Alexander Pope in the Reign of Queen Anne - Reconsiderations of His Early Career (Hardcover): A.D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin Alexander Pope in the Reign of Queen Anne - Reconsiderations of His Early Career (Hardcover)
A.D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin
R4,480 Discovery Miles 44 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first collection of essays since George Sherburn's landmark monograph The Early Career of Alexander Pope (1934) to reconsider how the most important and influential poet of eighteenth-century Britain fashioned his early career. The volume covers Pope's writings from across the reign of Queen Anne and just beyond. It focuses, in particular, on his interaction with the courtly culture constellated round the Queen. It examines, for instance, his representations of Queen Anne herself, his portrayals of politics and patronage under her reign, his negotiations with current literary theory, with the classical tradition, with chronologically distant yet also contemporaneous English poets, with current thought on the passions, and with membership of a religious minority. In doing so, it comprehensively reconsiders anew the ways in which Pope, increasingly supportive of Anne's rule and mindful of the Virgilian rota, sought at first to realise his authorial aspirations.

The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History, and Methodology (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020): Daniel Derrin, Hannah Burrows The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History, and Methodology (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Daniel Derrin, Hannah Burrows
R4,669 Discovery Miles 46 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This handbook addresses the methodological problems and theoretical challenges that arise in attempting to understand and represent humour in specific historical contexts across cultural history. It explores problems involved in applying modern theories of humour to historically-distant contexts of humour and points to the importance of recognising the divergent assumptions made by different academic disciplines when approaching the topic. It explores problems of terminology, identification, classification, subjectivity of viewpoint, and the coherence of the object of study. It addresses specific theories, together with the needs of specific historical case-studies, as well as some of the challenges of presenting historical humour to contemporary audiences through translation and curation. In this way, the handbook aims to encourage a fresh exploration of methodological problems involved in studying the various significances both of the history of humour and of humour in history.

Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne (Paperback): Daniel Derrin Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne (Paperback)
Daniel Derrin
R1,311 Discovery Miles 13 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Rhetoric and the Familiar examines the writing and oratory of Francis Bacon and John Donne from the perspective of the faculty psychology they both inherited. Both writers inherited the resources of the classical rhetorical tradition through their university education. The book traces, from within that tradition, the sources of Bacon and Donne's ideas about the processes of mental image making, reasoning, and passionate feeling. It analyzes how knowledge about those mental processes underlies the rhetorical planning of texts by Bacon, such as New Atlantis, Essayes or Counsels, Novum Organum, and the parliamentary speeches, and of texts by Donne such as the Verse Letters, Essayes in Divinity, Holy Sonnets, and the sermons. The book argues that their rhetorical practices reflect a common appropriation of ideas about mental process from faculty psychology, and that they deploy it in divergent ways depending on their rhetorical contexts. It demonstrates the vital importance, in early modern thinking about rhetoric, of considering what familiar remembered material will occur to a given audience, how that differs according to context, and the problems the familiar entails.

Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama (Hardcover): A.D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama (Hardcover)
A.D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin
R2,823 Discovery Miles 28 230 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Encompassing nearly a century of drama, this is the first book to provide students and scholars with a truly comprehensive guide to the early modern soliloquy. Considering the antecedents of the form in Roman, late fifteenth and mid-sixteenth century drama, it analyses its diversity, its theatrical functions and its socio-political significances. Containing detailed case-studies of the plays of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Ford, Middleton and Davenant, this collection will equip students in their own close-readings of texts, providing them with an indepth knowledge of the verbal and dramaturgical aspects of the form. Informed by rich theatrical and historical understanding, the essays reveal the larger connections between Shakespeare's use of the soliloquy and its deployment by his fellow dramatists.

Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne (Hardcover, New): Daniel Derrin Rhetoric and the Familiar in Francis Bacon and John Donne (Hardcover, New)
Daniel Derrin
R3,319 R2,340 Discovery Miles 23 400 Save R979 (29%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Rhetoric and the Familiar examines the writing and oratory of Francis Bacon and John Donne from the perspective of the faculty psychology they both inherited. Both writers inherited the resources of the classical rhetorical tradition through their university education. The book traces, from within that tradition, the sources of Bacon and Donne's ideas about the mental processes of mental image making, reasoning, and passionate feeling. It analyzes how knowledge about those mental processes underlies the rhetorical planning of texts by Bacon, such as New Atlantis, Essayes or Counsels, Novum Organum, and the parliamentary speeches, and of texts by Donne such as the Verse Letters, Essayes in Divinity, Holy Sonnets, and the sermons. The book argues that their rhetorical practices reflect a common appropriation of ideas about mental process from faculty psychology, and that they deploy it in divergent ways depending on their rhetorical contexts. It demonstrates the vital importance, in early modern thinking about rhetoric, of considering what familiar remembered material will occur to a given audience, how that differs according to context, as well as the problems the familiar entails.

Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama (Paperback): A.D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama (Paperback)
A.D. Cousins, Daniel Derrin
R804 Discovery Miles 8 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Encompassing nearly a century of drama, this is the first book to provide students and scholars with a truly comprehensive guide to the early modern soliloquy. Considering the antecedents of the form in Roman, late fifteenth and mid-sixteenth century drama, it analyses its diversity, its theatrical functions and its socio-political significances. Containing detailed case-studies of the plays of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Ford, Middleton and Davenant, this collection will equip students in their own close-readings of texts, providing them with an indepth knowledge of the verbal and dramaturgical aspects of the form. Informed by rich theatrical and historical understanding, the essays reveal the larger connections between Shakespeare's use of the soliloquy and its deployment by his fellow dramatists.

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