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Author: Stephen Leacock
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 157
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Author: Stephen Leacock
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Published: 1959
Total Pages: 157
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Published: 1914
Total Pages: 322
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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-01-07
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 3368329960
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Author: Stephen Leacock
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2019-06-27
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781070942391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich has both a timeless and timely relevance in the way Leacock sees through pretension and hypocrisy in the areas of education, politics, classism, naïve religion and spirituality-he also points the way to a better way of thinking and being. Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich is a Canadian classic one and all should read and inwardly digest to have even a minimal education as a Canadian and beyond.
Author: Sue Sorensen
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Published: 2014-12-25
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 0718842766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining thematic analysis and stimulating close readings, 'The Collar' is a wide-ranging study of the many ways - heroic or comic, shrewd or dastardly - in which Christian clergy have been represented in literature, from George Herbert and Laurence Sterne, via Anthony Trollope, G.K. Chesterton, T.S. Eliot, and Graham Greene, to Susan Howatch and Robertson Davies, and in film and television, such as 'Pale Rider', 'The Thorn Birds', 'The Vicar of Dibley', and 'Father Ted'. Since all Christians are expected to be involved in ministry of some type, the assumptions of secular culture about ministers affect more than just clergy. Ranging across several nations (particularly Britain, the U.S., and Canada), denominations, and centuries, 'The Collar' encouragescreative and faithful responses to the challenges of Christian leadership and develops awareness of the times when leadership expectations become too extreme. Using the framework of different media to make inquiries about pastoral passion, frustration, and fallibility, Sue Sorensen's well-informed, sprightly, and perceptive book will be helpful to anyone who enjoys evocative literature and film as well as to clergy and those interested in practical theology.
Author: Steven H. Gale
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-14
Total Pages: 578
ISBN-13: 1317362276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.
Author: Library Association
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 520
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceedings of the 22d-33d annual conference of the Library Association in v. 1-12; proceedings of the 34th-44th, 47th-57th annual conference issued as a supplement to v. 13-23, new ser. v. 3-ser. 4, v. 1.
Author: Beverly J. Rasporich
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2015-09-15
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9027268177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMade-in-Canada-Humour is an interdisciplinary survey and analysis of Canadian humour and humorists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book focuses on a variety of genres. It includes celebrated Canadian writers and poets with ironic and satiric perspectives; oral storytellers of tall tales in the country and the city; newspaper print humorists; representative national and regional cartoonists; and comedians of stage, radio and television. The humour gives voice to Canadian values and experiences, and consequently, techniques and styles of humour particular to the country. While a persistent comic theme has been joking at the expense of the United States, both countries have influenced one another’s humour. Canada’s unique humorous tradition also reflects its emergence from a colonial country to a postcolonial and postmodern nation with contemporary humour that addresses gender and racial issues.
Author: David Staines
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-08-05
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1108304702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA History of Canadian Fiction is the first one-volume history to chart its development from earliest times to the present day. Recounting the struggles and the glories of this burgeoning area of investigation, it explains Canada's literary growth alongside its remarkable history. Highlighting the people who have shaped and are shaping Canadian literary culture, the book examines such major figures as Mavis Gallant, Mordecai Richler, Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and Thomas King, concluding with young authors of today whose major successes reflect their indebtedness to their Canadian forbearers.