10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SERIOCOMICALLY»
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seriocomically in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
seriocomically and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Last Days of Judas Iscariot: A Play
This latest work from the author of Our Lady of 121st Street “shares many of the traits that have made Mr. Guirgis a playwright to reckon with in recent years: a fierce and questing mind that refuses to settle for glib answers, a gift for ...
Stephen Adly Guirgis, 2005
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Fair to See: In Two Volumes. 1
In Two Volumes. 1 Laurence W. M. Lockhart. pride and perturbation to the coffee-
room, where Pigott was already seated at breakfast. He posed himself
seriocomically at the door to disarm the cynic by meeting him half-way. His friend
looked at ...
Laurence W. M. Lockhart, 1873
He posed himself seriocomically at the door to disarm the cynic by meeting him
half-way. His friend looked at him and munched, and looking and munching, his
eyes got a trifle larger, and at last, with a ghost of grin, he remarked, " In the name
...
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The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and ...
... in the guise of passive observation, even to the point of "a certain impotence or
androgyny" in the persona's self-presentation) certainly applies to Bartram's
botanical conquest of Florida, as I seriocomically called it in the Introduction.
In one story from that collection, “Three Miraculous Soldiers,” Crane
seriocomically depicts the tribulations of a young Southern girl who seeks to
prevent some of her compatriots from being captured by the invading Federals. T
he girl was in ...
Above all, she delights in the myriad of workers who inhabit the building from
Monday to Friday, dwelling seriocomically on their transit from Grand Central
Station to the skyscraper elevators. Like any accomplished wordsmith, she
details the ...
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The Monthly Magazine: Or, British Register ...
Mr. Prince Hoare, in his periodical paper called the Artist, has given artists an
opportunity of essaying their powers with the pen, and_they give forcible proofs
of what Fielding seriocomically endeavours to prove, that a man does not write
the ...
8
Virtual Marshall McLuhan
... split between a commitment to the basically reactionary poetics of Wyndham
Lewis and Ezra Pound and a transgressive attraction to the seriocomically
rebellious, carnivalesque, and “patently offensive” “pornographic” wit of James
Joyce.
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Shakespiritualism: Shakespeare and the Occult, 1850-1950
26. Ignatius Donnelly, The Cipher in the Plays and on the Tombstone (
Minneapolis, MN: Verulam, 1899), 335. In 1899 Horace Howard Furness argued,
perhaps seriocomically, that Shakespeare wrote Bacon—at least his magisterial
Advance- ...
10
Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales
... familiar rural world and speaking seriocomically through his country proprietor,
Melville could safely address the theme of cosmic (mis)governance that readers
found offensive in the grandiloquent, openly blasphemous Ahab; he could even ...
Herman Melville, Robert Milder, 2009
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SERIOCOMICALLY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
seriocomically is used in the context of the following news items.
The Devil And John Mulaney
He answers, seriocomically, “Don't make me say that out loud.” The American Catholic can pass for a nearly flawless modern, as long as he or she resolves to ... «The Federalist, Feb 15»
Cinema reviews: The Act of Killing, Stories We Tell and more
The cross-examination process itself is cross-examined, or seriocomically inflected. “You want the whole story?” says the producer. “I'd better pee first.” Michael ... «Financial Times, Jun 13»
Theater review: Theatre Harrisburg's 'The Dining Room' is …
Bill McCarthy (2nd actor) is a jauntily perking pot with a seriocomically jiggling lid. That approach made good sense for those moments when his part called for ... «PennLive.com, Sep 11»
Theater Review: 'Visiting Mr. Green' at Colony Theatre
... Green (the aptly snappish Jack Axelrod), though still an archetypal Upper West Side Jewish crank, now reads more seriocomically and universally pre-senile. «Los Angeles Times, Sep 09»
Dissecting the latest Philip Roth.
Exit Ghost is a novel about a deeply antisocial man who, seriocomically, tries to enforce a Nietzschean vision on a world that has gone on the Friends and ... «Slate, Oct 07»
