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Satire

By: John T. Gilmore

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What is satire? How can we define it? Is it a weapon for radical change or fundamentally conservative? Is satire funny or cruel? Does it always need a target or victim? Combining thematic, theoretical and historical approaches, John T. Gilmore introduces and investigates the tradition of satire from classical models through to the present day. In a lucid and engaging style, Gilmore explores: the moral politics of satire whether satire is universal, historically or geographically limited how satire translates across genres and media the boundaries of free speech and legitimacy. Using examples from ancient Egypt to Charlie Hebdo, from European traditions of formal verse satire to imaginary voyages and alternative universes, newspaper cartoons and YouTube clips, from the Caribbean to China, this comprehensive volume should be of interest to students and scholars of literature, media and cultural studies as well as politics and philosophy.

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1134106335

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9781134106332

Satire

By: John T. Gilmore

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Hodder Education Caribbean History: Empires and Conquests

By: John T Gilmore,Beryl Allen,Dian McCallum,Ricardo Kerr

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Hodder Education Caribbean History: Empires and Conquests

By: John T Gilmore,Beryl Allen,Dian McCallum,Ricardo Kerr

Provide students with a solid foundation in Caribbean history and encourage social studies skills, with an active approach to the study of social history for Lower Secondary. - Ensure full coverage with content spanning history from ancient civilisations to more recent 21st Century events. - Prepare students for studies at CSEC level with a solid grounding in Caribbean history. - Provide practice in many different skill areas with activities, including 'What would you do?' problem solving activities. - Encourage students to compare and contrast past events with more recent ones with 'Then and Now' feature. - Inspire interest with relevant archaeological information from the region as well as career options related to the subject as part of the 'Did you know?' feature. - Reinforce learning and test knowledge through comprehensive revision questions.

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Hodder Education

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1510436820

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9781510436824

Literary Executions

Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925

By: John Cyril Barton

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Literary Executions

Capital Punishment and American Culture, 1820–1925

By: John Cyril Barton

In Literary Executions, John Barton analyzes nineteenth-century representations of, responses to, and arguments for and against the death penalty in the United States. The author creates a generative dialogue between artistic relics and legal history. Novels, short stories, poems, and creative nonfiction engage with legislative reports, trial transcripts, legal documents, newspaper and journal articles, treatises, and popular books (like The Record of Crimes and The Gallows, the Prison, and the Poor House), all of which participated in the debate over capital punishment. Barton focuses on several canonical figures--James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Lydia Maria Child, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, and Theodore Dreiser--and offers new readings of their work in light of the death penalty controversy. Barton also gives close attention to a host of then-popular-but-now-forgotten writers--particularly John Neal, Slidell MacKenzie, William Gilmore Simms, Sylvester Judd, and George Lippard--whose work helped shape or was in turn shaped by the influential anti-gallows movement. As illustrated in the book's epigraph by Samuel Johnson -- "Depend upon it Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully" -- Barton argues that the high stakes of capital punishment dramatize the confrontation between the citizen-subject and sovereign authority. In bringing together the social and the aesthetic, Barton traces the emergence of the modern State's administration of lawful death. The book is intended primarily for literary scholars, but cultural and legal historians will also find value in it, as will anyone interested in the intersections among law, culture, and the humanities"--

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JHU Press

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1421413329

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9781421413327

Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1835-1874

By: John Evelev

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Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1835-1874

By: John Evelev

Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landcape, 1835-1874 recovers the central role that the picturesque, a popular mode of scenery appreciation that advocated for an improved and manipulated natural landscape, played in the social, spatial, and literary history of mid-nineteenth century America. It argues that the picturesque was not simply a landscape aesthetic, but also a discipline of seeing and imaginatively shaping the natural that was widely embraced by bourgeois Americans to transform the national landscape in their own image. Through the picturesque, mid-century bourgeois Americans remade rural spaces into tourist scenery, celebrated the city streets as spaces of cultural diversity, created new urban public parks, and made suburban domesticity a national ideal. This picturesque transformation was promoted in a variety of popular literary genres, all focused on landscape description and all of which trained readers into the protocols of picturesque visual discipline as social reform. Many of these genres have since been dubbed minor or have been forgotten by our literary history, but the ranks of the writers of this picturesque literature include everyone from the most canonical (Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Emerson, and Poe), to major authors of the period now less familiar (such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lydia Maria Child, Nathaniel Parker Willis, and Margaret Fuller), to those now completely forgotten. Individual chapters of the book link picturesque literary genres to the spaces that the genres helped to transform and, in the process, create what is recognizably our modern American landscape.

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Oxford University Press

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0192894552

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9780192894557

Contemporary Tax Practice

Research, Planning and Strategies

By: John O. Everett,Cherie J. Hennig,Nancy Brown Nichols

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Contemporary Tax Practice

Research, Planning and Strategies

By: John O. Everett,Cherie J. Hennig,Nancy Brown Nichols

Contemporary Tax Practice: Research, Planning and Strategies will change the way you teach your tax research course, and the way future professionals learn how to perform tax research. This all new text provides a solid foundation of tax research skills by teaching the nuances of conducting tax research in today's environment. The book then provides exposure to frequently encountered tax planning topics and strategies, better preparing users for their future in tax practice.

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CCH

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0808018655

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9780808018650

Transnational Na(rra)tion

Home and Homeland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

By: John Dolis

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Transnational Na(rra)tion

Home and Homeland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

By: John Dolis

This book examines American literary texts whose portrayal of "American" identity involves the incorporation of a "foreign body" as the precondition for a comprehensive understanding of itself. This nexus of disconcerting textual dynamics arises precisely insofar as both citizen/subject and national identity depend upon a certain alterity, an "other" which constitutes the secondary term of a binary structure. "American" identity thus finds itself ironically con-fused and interwoven with another culture or another nation, double-crossed in the enactment of itself. Individual chapters are devoted to Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Frederick Douglass, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Mark Twain.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1611478162

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9781611478167

The Woman in the Woods

A Thriller

By: John Connolly

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The Woman in the Woods

A Thriller

By: John Connolly

“With its singular characters, eerie subject matter, and socko style” (The New York Times), this gripping thriller from the internationally bestselling author John Connolly follows Private Investigator Charlie Parker as he is hired to track down the identity of a dead woman—who apparently died in childbirth—and her missing child. In the beautiful Maine woods, a partly preserved body is discovered. Investigators realize that the young woman gave birth shortly before her death. But there is no sign of a baby. Private detective Charlie Parker is hired by a lawyer to shadow the police investigation and find the infant but Parker is not the only one searching. Someone else is following the trail left by the woman, someone with an interest in much more than a missing child…someone prepared to leave bodies in his wake. And in a house by the woods, a toy telephone begins to ring and a young boy is about to receive a call from a dead woman. With breathless pacing and shivery twists and turns, “this is Connolly’s masterpiece” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

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Atria/Emily Bestler Books

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1501171933

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9781501171932

Doggett's New York City Directory

By: John Doggett

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Doggett's New York City Directory

By: John Doggett

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385263557

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9783385263550

Severed

The True Story of the Black Dahlia

By: John Gilmore

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The True Story of the Black Dahlia

By: John Gilmore

This new edition of the L.A. noir classic is released just in time to accompany the Brian De Palma film.

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Amok Books

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187892317X

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Profits in the Wilderness

Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century

By: John Frederick Martin

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Profits in the Wilderness

Entrepreneurship and the Founding of New England Towns in the Seventeenth Century

By: John Frederick Martin

In examining the founding of New England towns during the seventeenth century, John Frederick Martin investigates an old subject with fresh insight. Whereas most historians emphasize communalism and absence of commerce in the seventeenth century, Martin demonstrates that colonists sought profits in town-founding, that town founders used business corporations to organize themselves into landholding bodies, and that multiple and absentee landholding was common. In reviewing some sixty towns and the activities of one hundred town founders, Martin finds that many town residents were excluded from owning common lands and from voting. It was not until the end of the seventeenth century, when proprietors separated from towns, that town institutions emerged as fully public entities for the first time. Martin's study will challenge historians to rethink not only social history but also the cultural history of early New England. Instead of taking sides in the long-standing debate between Puritan scholars and business historians, Martin identifies strains within Puritanism and the rest of the colonists' culture that both discouraged and encouraged land commerce, both supported and undermined communalism, both hindered and hastened development of the wilderness. Rather than portray colonists one-dimensionally, Martin analyzes how several different and competing ethics coexisted within a single, complex, and vibrant New England culture.

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UNC Press Books

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146960003X

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Satire

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Hodder Education Caribbean History: Empires and Conquests

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Literary Executions

Literary Executions

Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1835-1874

Picturesque Literature and the Transformation of the American Landscape, 1835-1874

Contemporary Tax Practice

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Transnational Na(rra)tion

Transnational Na(rra)tion

The Woman in the Woods

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Doggett's New York City Directory

Doggett's New York City Directory

Severed

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Profits in the Wilderness

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