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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2024

        Sexual politics in revolutionary England

        by Sam Fullerton

        Sexual politics in revolutionary England recounts a dramatic transformation in English sexual polemic that unfolded during the kingdom's mid-seventeenth-century civil wars. In early Stuart England, explicit sexual language was largely confined to manuscript and oral forms by the combined regulatory pressures of ecclesiastical press licensing and powerful cultural notions of civility and decorum. During the early 1640s, however, graphic sex-talk exploded into polemical print for the first time in English history. Over the next two decades, sexual politics evolved into a vital component of public discourse, as contemporaries utilized sexual satire to reframe the English Revolution as a battle between licentious Stuart tyrants and their lecherous puritan enemies. By the time that Charles II regained the throne in 1660, this book argues, sex was already a routine element of English political culture.

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        The Arts
        June 2017

        Terry Gilliam

        by Peter Marks

        Terry Gilliam presents a sustained examination of one of cinema's most challenging and lauded auteurs, proposing fresh ways of seeing Gilliam that go beyond reductive readings of him as a gifted but manic fantasist. Analysing Gilliam's work over nearly four decades, from the brilliant anarchy of his Monty Python animations through the nightmarish masterpiece Brazil to the provocative Gothic horror of Tideland, it critically examines the variety and richness of Gilliam's sometimes troubled but always provocative output. The book situates Gilliam within the competing cultural contexts of the British, European and American film industries, examining his regular struggles against aesthetic and commercial pressures. He emerges as a passionate, immensely creative director, whose work encompasses a dizzying array of material: anarchic satire, childhood and adult fantasy, dystopia, romantic comedy, surrealism, road movie, fairy tale and the Gothic. The book charts how Gilliam interweaves these genres and forms to create magical interfaces between reality and the illuminating, frightening but liberating worlds of the imagination. Scrutinising the neglected importance of literature and adaptation in Gilliam's career, this study also observes him through the lenses of auteurism, genre, performance, design and national culture, explaining how someone born in Minnesota and raised in California came to be one of British television and film's most compelling figures.

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        Among the Sheep

        by Oleksandr Koreshkov

        Something has clicked in the world order, and you have a chance to look at things around us from a different angle. What is: "fear of being human"? What is it like to "see wrongdoing and remain silent"? When do we turn into our executioners? You avoid such difficult questions to the last. Maybe it would be better to use the example of one dog that lives in a world of total fear, lies and greed? Lives like a sheep among sheep...

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        November 2016

        "Le sel antique": Epigramme, satire, théâtre et polémique / Das "Salz" der Antike: Epigramm, Satire, Theater, Polemik

        Leur Réception chez les humanistes dans les sources imprimées et manuscrites du Rhin Supérieur / Ihre Rezeption bei den Humanisten: Drucke und Handschriften am Oberrhein

        by Herausgegeben von Freyburger-Galland, Marie-Laure; Herausgegeben von Harich-Schwarzbauer, Henriette

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        Children's & YA
        June 2021

        Batalha das Velas

        A Rota dos Espiões

        by Manu & Deepak

        This book is the first volume in a series of comic books about the spice trade and the spirit of navigation with all its vivid humor. The dominance of the Arabs in the spice trade and the envy of the Portuguese and Spaniards define the script and plot of the story, covering the maritime trade from 1440 to 1500. The story is inspired by the adventures and navigation techniques of Ahmed bin Majid, the great Arab navigator. Medieval history, mythology and archetypes are adapted to the modern world to facilitate the narration of the story and generate interest. He uses anachronisms and discourses of contemporary media to create comedy. In this volume, Prince Henry hires Chung Chung, the Chinese traveler to steal Majid's map, but Majid's cunning prevails. Majid also gives a lesson to the 41 pirates and their captain, Black Fin.

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        2022

        Micronutrient Depleters: Acid Blockers

        Things to know about medicines and micronutrients

        by Uwe Gröber and Prof. Dr. Klaus Kisters

        This guide provides patients with important medical information about interactions of their drug products with vitamins and minerals. These interactions are not always listed in the accompanying package inserts. Those who take acid blockers such as omeprazole or pantoprazole may not only develop disorders relating to calcium, magnesium, vitamin D and bone metabolism in the long term, but above all become deficient in vitamin B12. This way, patients can improve their treatment, reduce the side effects of their medication and increase their quality of life!

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        Scherz, Satire, Ironie

        Lustspiel in drei Akten

        by Christian D Grabbe

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2021

        The daring muse of the early Stuart funeral elegy

        by James Doelman

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2022

        Comic Spenser

        by Victoria Coldham-Fussell, Joshua Samuel Reid

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        February 2015

        Die Performativität der Satire bei Karl Kraus.

        Zu seiner »geschriebenen Schauspielkunst«.

        by Kouno, Eiji

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        August 2010

        Nationalsozialistische Satire und "Deutscher Humor"

        Politische Bedeutung und Öffentlichkeit populärer Unterhaltung 1931-1945

        by Merziger, Patrick

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2024

        Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure

        by Larry D Carver

        Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochester's poems, dramatic works, and letters in a biographical context. In doing so, it sheds light on a central vexed issue in Rochester criticism, the relationship of the poet to his speaker. It also reveals that Rochester's work clusters about a central theme, the pursuit of pleasure, a pursuit motivated by a courtship of purity that grew out of Rochester's Christian and God-fearing upbringing. This rhetoric of courtship, in turn, reveals the unity of Rochester's work as the courtier and his various personae try to persuade his audiences, secular and divine, of his worth.

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        Plays, playscripts
        January 2007

        Galatea and midas

        John Lyly

        by Edited by George Hunter and David Bevington

        Galatea and Midas are two of John Lyly's most engaging plays. Lyly took up the story of two young women, Galatea (or Gallathea) and Phillida who are dressed up in male clothes by their fathers so that they can avoid the requirement of the god Neptune that every year 'the fairest and chastest virgin in all the country' be sacrificed to a sea-monster. Hiding together in the forest, the two maidens fall in love, each supposing the other to be a young man. Galatea has become the subject of considerable feminist critical study in recent years. Midas (1590) uses mythology in quite a different way, dramatising two stories about King Midas in such a way as to fashion a satire of King Philip of Spain (and of any tyrant like him) for colossal greediness and folly. In the wake of the defeat of Philip's Armada fleet and its attempted invasion of England in 1588, this satire was calculated to win the approval of Queen Elizabeth and her court.

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        June 1998

        Strafrecht und Satire im Werk von Karl Kraus

        by Reinhard Merkel

        »Das Lebenswerk von Karl Kraus in den 37 Jahrgängen der Zeitschrift »Die Fackel« gilt heute als das klassische Beispiel einer kritisch-literarischen Begleitung der Zeitläufe, jener Zeitläufe, in denen sich das Unheil des 20. Jahrhunderts, Weltkriege und Faschismus, anbahnte. Bisher kaum berührt ist dabei, daß sich durch dieses Werk eine Auseinandersetzung mit rechtspolitischen, rechtsdogmatischen und prozessualen Strafrechtsproblemen als ununterbrochene Linie hindurchzieht. Merkel hat als rechtsphilosophisch und -theoretisch gebildeter Jurist, als Essayist und Journalist die doppelte Vorbildung, um diesen ›weißen Fleck‹ zwischen Literatur und Recht zu bearbeiten; er hat auch das zu diesem Thema und dem Gegenstand angemessene Engagement, um ein den Leser durch Klarheit der Linienführung, kritische Durchblicke und, natürlich, eine reflektierte und elegante Sprache fesselndes Werk zu schreiben. Den in mehreren Richtungen entfalteten Grundlegungen folgt ein Durchgang durch die von Karl Klaus behandelten strafrechtlichen Probleme und Deliktbereiche. Das geht vom Sittlichkeitsstrafrecht (in vielen Varianten) zum Wirtschafts- und Pressestrafrecht, zur Kindesmißhandlung und zum Strafverfahren. Hier entfaltet sich fast eine Chronik der Zeitgeschichte; viele Wertvorstellungen haben sich gewandelt, die menschlichen Grundkonstellationen (Gesellschaft, Polizei und Justiz) weit weniger.« (Gerhard Dilcher, »Neue Juristische Wochenschrift«)

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        February 2020

        Ru Lin Wai Shi

        by Wu Jingzi

        A long satirical novel depicting a group of intellectuals. It depicts the absurdities and hypocrisies of the Confucian scholars who were poisoned by the Eight Sticks, deprecates and satirises the fake Confucian scholars and famous scholars, and criticises the corrupt worldly atmosphere of the time. It is an example of ancient Chinese satire, pioneering the use of fiction as a direct commentary on real life.

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