10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MIRTHLESS»
Discover the use of
mirthless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
mirthless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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"The
Mirthless Laugh": Feeling Pain in Samuel Beckett's ...
This project analyzes pain in Samuel Beckett's trilogy of novels, Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable.
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A Companion to Greek Religion
346 Kevin Clinton This is the Agelastos Petra, the Mirthless Rock. It appears in
some literary versions of the myth as well as on the vases. In order to assess its
full significance, we need to know the location of the rock. In addition, in order to ...
3
Prospecting: From Reader Response to Literary Anthropology
In Beckett's Watt there is a short catalogue of laughs: Of all the laughs that strictly
speaking are not laughs but modes of ululation, only three I think need detain us,
I mean the bitter, the hollow and the mirthless. They correspond to successive, ...
4
Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking
Mirthless laughter, which here constitutes the first production, by both teller and a
recipient, seems a particularly interesting object. Why, if laughter be mirthless, is
it done at all? And how does it shape the course of talk which succeeds its ...
Richard Bauman, Joel Sherzer, 1989
In Beckett's Watt there is a short catalogue of laughs: Of all the laughs that strictly
speaking are not laughs but modes of ululation, only three I think need detain us,
I mean the bitter, the hollow and the mirthless. They correspond to successive, ...
Jennifer Birkett, Kate Ince, 2014
Preface: About Face Professor Merton Mirthless, Grace Sheauga, and Simla
Featherkile engage in a conversation about Coyote, in the conference room of
Calliope Press just off the Tamiami Trail in Sarasota. It is 90 degrees outside and
...
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Beckett in the 1990s: Selected Papers from the Second ...
But the mirthless laugh is the dianoetic laugn (...) it is the laugh of laughs, the
risus purus, the laugh laughing at the laugh, the beholding, the saluting of the
highest joke, m a word the laugh that laughs - silence please - at that which is
unhappy ...
Marius Buning, Lois Oppenheim, 1993
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Gender and Laughter: Comic Affirmation and Subversion in ...
This mirthless laughter is emblematic for the state of art, which is the state of the
world. Let me put in a final word of warning: nowadays, the event of Dada
registers a nostalgia for what preceded its murderous gesture, and raises the
spectre of ...
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Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the ...
But the last plane of laughter, the mirthless, occupies a strange, placeless,
asocial space: the threshold — an originary in- adequation — between the mind
and the world. The mirthless laugh is "dianoetic," pertaining to thinking, and
specifically ...
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The Ideal Real: Beckett's Fiction and Imagination
amusement, what Joyce would have called a "mirthless" laugh.* True company
cannot be devised or approximated by the fancy's "eye of flesh," an eye which
can only register an object, not understand or relate meaningfully to it. The
amount ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MIRTHLESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
mirthless is used in the context of the following news items.
Get in the Ring: Rating 10 Best Boxing-Movie Fights
Meet Soviet boxer Ivan Drago — a 6'5" tall, impenetrable 261 pounds of mirthless, steroidal, state-manufactured muscle. Put him toe-to-toe with ... «RollingStone.com, Jul 15»
Why Bernard Tomic is a world laughing stock
... after which he gave his police mugshot glare — the squinting eyes and the mirthless shape of the mouth — in response to questions about a ... «The Australian, Jul 15»
Bored to Death review – the hipster event horizon
And yet laughs – wry, mirthless, but laughs nevertheless – are periodically jolted from you when you least expect them, just like they were in ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
The Riot Club and Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 coming to DVD
By abandoning most of what made the original Paul Blart an OK watch and surprise hit way back in 2009, the film pratfalls into mirthless idiocy, ... «Toronto Star, Jul 15»
Gig-ANT-ic hero
... so they don't bother covering up that goofiness with the dark solemnity and mirthless dank of the Christopher Nolan Bat-films. They have fun ... «Arkansas Online, Jul 15»
Amphibian Stage's Quixotic Days Tilts at the Windmills of Your Mind
Then there's another hour of the mirthless Quixotic Days to go. “Can you feel the adventure?” asks Don Quixote. No, sir. Not for a minute. «Dallas Observer, Jul 15»
The strange death of the Liberal Democrats
... we do politics à la United Kingdom, and we had a coalition à la Scandinavia, there was … a bit of a mismatch.” She lets out a mirthless laugh. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
Name of bold renown
''Biggles showed his teeth in a mirthless smile'' is typically sublime. The full title of the man whose name I wanted was Flying Officer James ... «Otago Daily Times, Jul 15»
PC dweebs don't get Amy Schumer's jokes
... something bad happening to someone somewhere, well, enjoy your mirthless existence. Just don't steal everyone else's joy in the process. «New York Post, Jul 15»
Review: 'Minions' Featuring The Voices Of Sandra Bullock, Michael …
But “Minions” is, in sharp contrast, totally mirthless. It's often downright mean-spirited and has moments of surprising violence. The marketing ... «Indie Wire, Jul 15»
