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The Stability of Laughter

The Problem of Joy in Modernist Literature

By: James Nikopoulos

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The Stability of Laughter

The Problem of Joy in Modernist Literature

By: James Nikopoulos

A "sad and corrupt" age, a period of "crisis" and "upheaval"—what T.S. Eliot famously summed up as "the panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history." Modernism has always been characterized by its self-conscious sense of suffering. Why, then, was it so obsessed with laughter? From Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Bergson and Freud to Pirandello, Beckett, Hughes, Barnes, and Joyce, no moment in cultural history has written about laughter this much. James Nikopoulos investigates modernity’s paradoxical relationship with mirth. Why was the gesture we conventionally associate with happiness deemed the only sensible way of responding to a world, as Max Weber wrote, that had been "disenchanted of its gods?" In answering these questions, Nikopoulos also delves into our ongoing relationship with laughter. He looks to contemporary research in emotion and evolutionary theory, as well as to the two-thousand-plus-year history of the philosophy of humor, in order to propose a novel way of understanding laughter, humor, and their complicated relationships with modern life. The Stability of Laughter explores how art unsettles the simplifications we revert to in our attempts to make sense of human history and social interaction.

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Ezra Pound and 20th-Century Theories of Language

Faith with the Word

By: James Dowthwaite

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Ezra Pound and 20th-Century Theories of Language

Faith with the Word

By: James Dowthwaite

Ezra Pound is one of the most significant poets of the twentieth century, a writer whose poetry is particularly notable for the intensity of its linguistic qualities. Indeed, from the principles of Imagism to the polyphony of his Cantos, Pound is central to our conception of modernism’s relationship with language. This volume explores the development of Pound’s understanding of language in the context of twentieth-century linguistics and the philosophy of language. It draws on largely unpublished archival material in order to provide a broadly chronological account of the development of Pound’s views and their relation to both his own poetry and to modernist writing as a whole. Beginning with Pound’s contentious relationship with philology and his antagonism towards academia, the book traces continuities and shifts across Pound’s career, culminating in a discussion of the centrality of language to the conception of his Cantos. While it contains discussions around significant figures in twentieth-century linguistic thought, such as Ferdinand de Saussure and Ludwig Wittgenstein, the book attempts to recover the work of theorists such as Leonard Bloomfield, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, and C.K. Ogden, figures who were once central to modernism, but who have largely been pushed to the periphery of modernist studies. The picture of Pound that emerges is a figure whose understanding of language is not only bound up with modernist approaches to anthropology, politics, and philosophy, but which calls for a new understanding of modernism’s relationship to each.

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1000012360

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Satire as the Comic Public Sphere

Postmodern “Truthiness” and Civic Engagement

By: James E. Caron

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Satire as the Comic Public Sphere

Postmodern “Truthiness” and Civic Engagement

By: James E. Caron

Stephen Colbert, Samantha Bee, John Oliver, and Jimmy Kimmel—these comedians are household names whose satirical takes on politics, the news, and current events receive some of the highest ratings on television. In this book, James E. Caron examines these and other satirists through the lenses of humor studies, cultural theory, and rhetorical and social philosophy, arriving at a new definition of the comic art form. Tracing the history of modern satire from its roots in the Enlightenment values of rational debate, evidence, facts, accountability, and transparency, Caron identifies a new genre: “truthiness satire.” He shows how satirists such as Colbert, Bee, Oliver, and Kimmel—along with writers like Charles Pierce and Jack Shafer—rely on shared values and on the postmodern aesthetics of irony and affect to foster engagement within the comic public sphere that satire creates. Using case studies of bits, parodies, and routines, Caron reveals a remarkable process: when evidence-based news reporting collides with a discursive space asserting alternative facts, the satiric laughter that erupts can move the audience toward reflection and possibly even action as the body politic in the public sphere. With rigor, humor, and insight, Caron shows that truthiness satire pushes back against fake news and biased reporting and that the satirist today is at heart a citizen, albeit a seemingly silly one. This book will appeal to anyone interested in and concerned about public discourse in the current era, especially researchers in media studies, communication studies, political science, and literary and cultural studies.

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Penn State Press

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0271090359

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Clinical Systems and Programming in Human Services Organizations

EnvisionSMARTTM: A Melmark Model of Administration and Operation

By: Frank L. Bird,Helena Maguire,Jill M. Harper,Rita M. Gardner,Andrew Shlesinger,James K. Luiselli

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Clinical Systems and Programming in Human Services Organizations

EnvisionSMARTTM: A Melmark Model of Administration and Operation

By: Frank L. Bird,Helena Maguire,Jill M. Harper,Rita M. Gardner,Andrew Shlesinger,James K. Luiselli

Clinical Systems and Programming in Human Services Organizations: EnvisionSMARTTM: A Melmark Model of Administration and Operation provides a step-by-step plan for creating clinical programs within HSOs using Functional Behavioral Assessment (FBA) and Functional Analysis (FA) Systems. This includes establishing standards and guidelines for behavior support plans that meet federal and state guidelines. Readers are also provided with instructions and templates on how prepare clinical "report cards to track patient progress. The book promotes a multidisciplinary working environment for clinicians to help foster collaboration amongst medical, nursing, psychiatric and allied professionals. Human Service Organizations (HSO) are groups, both public and private with one main goal, to enhance human well-being.With the decrease of federal funding for these services, many private HSOs have been created to supplement the void. To ensure that these HSOs provide adequate services to their patients, it is vital that they adopt an effective model. The Organizational Behavior Management (OBM) model is an effective approach to designing, implementing and maintaining services within HSOs. Each volume in this series highlights key concepts and applications pertinent to each division of HSOs and is written in a user-friendly format. - Provides instructions on how to create standardized training curriculum for clinicians - Includes templates on how to develop a behavior support plan for patients - Discusses the importance of peer-review and implementation into daily practice - Covers how to prepare clinical "report cards" to evaluate the patient's progress and measure their outcomes

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Academic Press

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0323854400

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9780323854405

The Stability of Laughter

The Problem of Joy in Modernist Literature

By: James Nikopoulos

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The Problem of Joy in Modernist Literature

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The Stability of Laughter

The Stability of Laughter

Ezra Pound and 20th-Century Theories of Language

Ezra Pound and 20th-Century Theories of Language

Satire as the Comic Public Sphere

Satire as the Comic Public Sphere

Clinical Systems and Programming in Human Services Organizations

Clinical Systems and Programming in Human Services Organizations

The Stability of Laughter

The Stability of Laughter

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