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Satiric Impersonations
In this entertaining and provocative new work, Joel Schechter selectively surveys political satire covering a wide range of periods and events from Aristophanes to the present. His absorbing essays focus on the satires of Jonathan Swift, Charlie Chaplin, Will Rogers, Dario Fo, and the Guerrilla Girls, among others. Schechter furthermore examines how the histrionic behavior of some politicians and world leaders has prompted them to become unwitting contributors to political satire. He argues that these politicians are as theatrical, if not as comic, as the plays, pamphlets, and films in which they are satirically impersonated. As examples, he cites Hitler, Stalin, and Reagan as performers who...
Der Text und seine (Re)Produktion
Im Fokus dieses Bandes steht der Text, seine Produktion und insbesondere seine Reproduzierbarkeit, auch im editorischen Rahmen. ‚Text‘ wird als Begriff und Konzept im Kontext verschiedener Kulturtechniken verstanden, sowohl als methodisches Scharnier als auch als Schnittmenge von materiellem Dokument und erarbeiteter Edition. Gegenstand sind schrift- und bildsprachliche Texte aus verschiedenen Überlieferungskontexten sowie akustische Texte.
The Sacred Journey
Any scholar who is interested in Peter Roegger (1843-1918) as an author and thinker must contend with the unfortunate association of the poet's name with popular literature and stories for children. During the Second War selected stories from Rosegger's Waldheimat were chose as appropriate reading material for young people. The practice of including one of two stories by Rosegger in reading texts for German-speaking youth continues to the present and has led many adult readers to assume that the poet has little to offer a mature audience. Charlotte Anderle, in her most recent work on Rosegger, begins her investigation of the poet as social critic with the observation that this identification of Rosegger with lighthearted literature has prevented many contemporary readers from discovering the bulk of his serious writing. -- Introduction.
Somebody's Daughter
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