10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRANKISHNESS»
Discover the use of
prankishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
prankishness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Poetics of Impudence and Intimacy in the Age of Pushkin
A thumbnail sketch of this literary and cultural trend * “prankishness,” as I call it i
would look something like this: In the 1810s two literary societies, ArZamas and
the Green Lamp, adopted prankishness as their behavioral lingua franca.
Seminal ...
2
Nietzsche: Critical Assessments
It means playfulness or even prankishness. Zarathustra uses it almost
interchangeably with Mutwille, literally courage-will, which can mean
mischievousness; wantonness and petulance. Mischievous playfulness is, in a
certain way, what ...
Daniel W. Conway, Peter S. Groff, 1998
3
The Space of the Book: Print Culture in the Russian Social ...
Peschio, 'Prankishness in Golden Age Russian Literature and Culture' (PhD diss.
, University of Michigan, 2004); Pil'shchikov, 'Nomina si nescis ... (Struktura
auditorii i “domashniaia semantika” u Pushkina i Baratyn- skogo),' in 'Na mezhe ...
Miranda Beaven Remnek, 2011
4
Simon & Schuster Super Crossword Puzzle Dictionary And ...
... escapade, flimflam prankish: 6 impish; 7 implike, puckish; 9 pixilated; 11
mischievous prankishness: 9 rascality; 11 roguishness prankster: 6 hoaxer; 9
trickster; 14 practical joker praseodymium: 2 Pr prat: posterior prattle: 3 jaw; 5
clack, prate, ...
Seth Godin, Lark Productions LLC, Seth Godin Productions, 1999
“'Verily it is not a blasphemy when I teach: Over all things stand the heaven
Accident, the heaven Innocence, the heaven Prankishness, the heaven Chance.
And Chance is the most ancient Divinity of the world, and behold, I come to
deliver all ...
6
Singing to the Plants: A Guide to Mestizo Shamanism in the ...
The prankishness and general high spirits of these elves are often reported,
particularly by Terence McKenna, whose own prankishness apparently matched
their own. For example, McKenna reports the following exchange: “And so thenI
said: ...
Somehow I don't equate the living dead with juvenile prankishness. Even cruel-
hearted and extreme juvenile prankishness.” “In the movies, do vampires come
back from the dead if they've been incinerated?” “Not usually. Fire's always one
of ...
8
Directions by Indirections: John Barton of the Royal ...
Barton found occasion to combine both prankishness and disguise: in 2.3 — the
scene in which "the men" deceive Benedick into thinking Beatrice loves him —
Claudio, Leonato, and Don Pedro staged their ruse under the pretext of an ...
Michael L. Greenwald, 1985
9
In History's Grip: Philip Roth's Newark Trilogy
Worried by the escapades of his vigorous imposter, Roth pictures him as Moishe
Pipik, “little Moses the belly button” in Yiddish, a folkloric alter ego to disobedient
Jewish children: The delightful playword itself, the sonic prankishness of the two
...
10
Watching Shakespeare on Television
[I would tend to equate Puck more with Tom Sawyer from the standpoint of "
prankishness. "] A production can emphasize harmony. "One beautiful tableau [
occurred] as Theseus and Hippolyta watched the sleeping lovers [at the end of IV
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10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PRANKISHNESS»
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prankishness is used in the context of the following news items.
The Yes Men Are Revolting opens on Friday with political prankster …
... he's participating in a Yes Men publicity stunt, along with his partner-in-prankishness Andy Bichlbaum, whose real name is Jacques Servin. «Almanac Weekly, Jul 15»
An Irishman's Diary on a 1916 bodice-ripper by Raymond Queneau
He praised, in particular, Queneau's “cerebral prankishness, electric pace, and cut-on-the-bias poetry”. It did not impinge negatively on ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»
Holly Hunter shines in Jodie Foster's deep look at the construction of …
Naturally, this approach leads to frequent unevenness—any given viewer might find Downey's prankishness too loud, or Geraldine Chaplin's ... «A.V. Club Milwaukee, Jun 15»
Queen and Country — film review
Acts of prankishness become mini-heroic as “time” is literally stolen: the time it takes, thieved from hours of institutional regimentation, ... «Financial Times, Jun 15»
Lettermans Goodbye: The Last Great Talk Show Host Retires and a …
The critics who saw (or even still see) what Letterman did as child's play, mere tomfoolery and prankishness, probably forget that when Orson ... «Daily Beast, May 15»
We Were With Coco. What Happened?
Which brings us to the gags and sketches that are the soul of late-night comedy—the prankishness of Kimmel, the frat-house jamboree of ... «Slate Magazine, May 15»
'Hissing Cousins:' a dual life of Eleanor Roosevelt and Alice …
... her celebrity always inconveniently exceeded his, and her short attention span inclined her more toward prankishness than to Eleanor's hard, ... «Washington Post, Apr 15»
Heras-Casado's second SFS program is uneven but with some …
... through the transition into the final Con moto movement, that prankishness blossomed into sheer raucousness. While this is “abstract” music, ... «Examiner.com, Apr 15»
Ken Prewitt, Bloomberg Radio 'Authoritative' Voice, Dies
There, his prankishness led him to buy a used hearse for getting around, according to his sister, Paula Prewitt. He also became a lifelong Tar ... «Bloomberg, Apr 15»
Pablo Heras-Casado brings a program of chronological …
Adams' counterpoint was equally thick, but it clearly suggested a prankishness as irreverent as anything that could be found in the best of the ... «Examiner.com, Apr 15»
