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Centerburg tales
Further adventures of Homer Price, including those in which a juke box sets the whole town singing against its will and in which a mad scientist develops weeds that overrun the town.
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Comedy and the Feminine Middlebrow Novel: Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth von Arnim and Elizabeth Taylor wrote witty and entertaining novels about the domestic lives of middle-class women. Widely read and enjoyed, their work was often dismissed as middlebrow. Brown argues their skilful use of comedy and irony provided the receptive reader with subversive commentary on the cruelties and disappointments of life.
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The great brain is back
Although bedazzled by pretty Polly Reagan, thirteen-year-old Tom Fitzgerald's great brain and money-loving ways haven't changed a bit.
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Mark Twain and human nature
Mark Twain once claimed that he could read human character as well as he could read the Mississippi River, and he studied his fellow humans with the same devoted attention. In both his fiction and his nonfiction, he was disposed to dramatize how the human creature acts in a given environment—and to understand why. Now one of America's preeminent Twain scholars takes a closer look at this icon's abiding interest in his fellow creatures. In seeking to account for how Twain might have reasonably believed the things he said he believed, Tom Quirk has interwoven the author's inner life with his writings to produce a meditation on how Twain's understanding of human nature evolved and deepened, and to show that this was one of the central preoccupations of his life. Quirk charts the ways in which this humorist and occasional philosopher contemplated the subject of human nature from early adulthood until the end of his life, revealing how his outlook changed over the years. His travels, his readings in history and science, his political and social commitments, and his own pragmatic testing of human nature in his writing contributed to Twain's mature view of his kind. Quirk establishes the social and scientific contexts that clarify Twain's thinking, and he considers not only Twain's stated intentions about his purposes in his published works but also his ad hoc remarks about the human condition. Viewing both major and minor works through the lens of Twain's shifting attitude, Quirk provides refreshing new perspectives on the master's oeuvre. He offers a detailed look at the travel writings, including The Innocents Abroad and Following the Equator, and the novels, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Pudd'nhead Wilson, as well as an important review of works from Twain's last decade, including fantasies centering on man's insignificance in Creation, works preoccupied with isolation—notably No. 44,The Mysterious Stranger and \"Eve's Diary\"—and polemical writings such as What Is Man? Comprising the well-seasoned reflections of a mature scholar, this persuasive and eminently readable study comes to terms with the life-shaping ideas and attitudes of one of America's best-loved writers. Mark Twain and Human Nature offers readers a better understanding of Twain's intellect as it enriches our understanding of his craft and his ineluctable humor.
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Political Criticisms in Hasan Hüseyin Korkmazgil’s Humor Work Titled Made in Turkey
Humor is a way of narration based on smiling. Humor is sometimes used to have others think, to criticize them and even to make them bothered. Humor, which aims to make the public conscious and to tease and refute the dominant class, is called ““functional and beneficial laugh”. There is criticism at the base of this laughter. The criticism is mostly directed to the system and political power with the dimention of the laughter. Hüseyin Korkmazgil (1927-1984), who is mostly popular for his poetry in Turkish literature, also had written humor stories. In his early poems, he used the pseudonym Serhan and became interested in political and philosophical books during his high school years. During this time, he started to read marko pasha magazine, and he wrote his first laughter essays during his high school period and published them in the school's wall newspaper. His work is a reflection of his political stance and his work “Made in Turkey“ (1970) which features humor, becomes prominent with its political criticism. He aims to raise public awareness with his political criticisms in “Made in Turkey”.Korkmazgil's political criticisms in his work are directed at the immorality of politicians, the misconduct of the bureaucracy, the misperception of democracy, and the corruptions in the press. The titles in our study are shaped in this direction.
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