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Modern Language Quarterly (2003) 64 (4): 399–426.
Published: 01 December 2003
... and reviews have appeared in the Shakespeare Quarterly, English Literary History, and the Renaissance Quarterly . Royal Jokes and Sovereign Mystery in Castiglione
and Marguerite de Navarre
Heather James
hen the emperor Caligula let it be known that he might propose
W his horse...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1990) 51 (2): 144–166.
Published: 01 June 1990
...Janet Marion Martin Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 CICERO’S JOKES AT THE COURT
OF HENRY I1 OF ENGLAND
ROMAN HUMOR AND THE PRINCELY IDEAL
By JANET MARION MARTIN
The Saturnalia, by the fifth-century Roman...
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Published: 01 March 2016
Figure 6. Harry Furniss, “The Origin of Pan.” From Harry Furniss’s Royal Academy: An Artistic Joke ( 1887 )
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (4): 413–442.
Published: 01 December 2023
...David Nee Abstract André Jolles’s Simple Forms (1929), widely regarded as a classic of genre theory, examines a range of folkloric and nonauthorial forms, such as the fairy tale, the riddle, and the joke, as part of an ambitious attempt to reground literary theory in a “morphological” approach...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1970) 31 (1): 48–52.
Published: 01 March 1970
...) the immediate
reference of “cock and bull” is not to Obadiah’s problem in the sense
that Booth intends; and (3) the Shandy bull is not impotent, at least
not for the dramatic purpose of the novel. It is all a joke, perhaps no
more of a joke than the obstetrical forceps’ breaking Tristram’s nose...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1947) 8 (4): 487–488.
Published: 01 December 1947
... of the Kritik der asthetischen Urthedskraft, is re-
markable as the chief passage in which Kant deals with humour.
In this passage, Kant actually descends to quoting two jokes to
support his definition of laughter as “ein Affect aus der plotzlichen
Verwandlung einer gespannten...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (2): 174–184.
Published: 01 June 1966
..., found their expression in the burlu. As Tirso uses the
term, a burlu may be a joke which exposes false appearances by con-
trasting them with reality; it may be a trick which frustrates expecta-
tions and reveals them as illusory; or it may be both at once.‘ Its double
and somewhat ambiguous...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (3): 259–266.
Published: 01 September 1951
... Privy Garden (1674) ; Mock
Songs and Joking Poems (1675) ; and Grammatical Drollery (1682). Biblio-
graphical descriptions for most of these volumes can be found in Arthur E. Case,
Bibliography of English Poetical Miscella&es, 1521-1750 (Oxford : Biblio-
graphical Society, 1935...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1974) 35 (2): 173–186.
Published: 01 June 1974
... who are
interested in philanthropic work,” says Cecily. “I think it is so forward
of them.”5 This is funnier, and more percipient, than jokes about
hypocritical Puritan tradesmen. Wilde’s symbol for sensual vitality and
obedience to impulse is itself more wisely chosen than that of the Res...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1957) 18 (2): 100–106.
Published: 01 June 1957
...
incident is the lowest form of the repeated jokes based on the Don’s
inability to admit that reality limits possibility, to see that in his
case a melting brain is impossible. Whereas the adventure with the
lions signally involved Don Qui jote’s whole chivalric being, Cervantes
could have had...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1963) 24 (4): 333–341.
Published: 01 December 1963
... in GGK
are essentially practical jokes which the antagonist, Bercilak, enjoys
to the hilt, as his continual loud laughter shows. And the victim, in the
glare of exposure and publicity, responds like any victim of a practical
joke-in shame and anger.
GGK is a predominantly secular poem...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1965) 26 (3): 388–400.
Published: 01 September 1965
... certain of man’s
self-enhancing illusions, and it is this definition which makes the
Memoirs more than an obscene, if highly ingenious, joke.
Arbuthnot shared with Pope and Swift the view of man as a divided
animal. In his philosophical poem “Gnothi Seauton” (written in 1734,
a year before...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (4): 456–458.
Published: 01 December 1985
...-
ment of Lewde, idle, froward, and vncomtant women, which “Sowernam”under-
takes to rebut.) Pointing out that the stereotype of the woman who cannot
take a joke has survived intact from the Renaissance, Woodbridge sen-
sitively analyzes the double bind that Swetnam’s joking tone creates...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1998) 59 (2): 171–193.
Published: 01 June 1998
... their
increasing availability as objects of literary fun. Parrot jokes, for
instance, begin to appear in jestbooks and related texts; moreover,
they generally associate psittacine articulacy with intellectual empti-
ness. The parrots of early modern jestbooks make no claims to have
been born in paradise...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (2): 137–149.
Published: 01 June 1951
... to the Skies,
She drew an Angel down,
Welsted pointed up the joke by calling Pope the bard
Who from the skies, propitious to the fair,
Brought down Caecilia, and sent Cloris there.
It was perhaps not a very good joke. To make it clear he had to explain...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1966) 27 (2): 147–161.
Published: 01 June 1966
..., uproars, gags, practical jokes, and so on. Yet such characteristics,
which often do appear in farce, are surface manifestations. What we
need to identify is the “spirit of farce’’ which lies behind them. We
ably, without denial of the basic validity of its doctrine, as susceptible...
Journal Article
Modern Language Quarterly (1989) 50 (2): 145–172.
Published: 01 June 1989
... the pleasure of a joke,
not the hard work of initiation.
The anecdote about the snowstorm thus exemplifies Clemens’s
basic comic strategy, a circling in the narrative tracks of earlier
performances of the same story, indeed, the only story related by
the anecdotes of “The Adventures of Mark...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1988) 49 (3): 211–238.
Published: 01 September 1988
...
and figure and author are liberated.”3 Howard does not pursue this
liberation, but clearly James’s joke about one of the most crucial of
novelistic procedures, particularly given his later literalization of
Kansom’s arcadian metaphors in Marmion, requires some atten-
tion. James had attested...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1976) 37 (2): 202–205.
Published: 01 June 1976
... of continuing bible of his spiritual
history. But Kincaid does not choose to discuss the poem in these terms. Nor
does he comment on the most striking instances of comic irony in In Memo•
riam. I am thinking of the poet's "dreaming his dream" (123.10), for example,
where the soul's high joking becomes...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1985) 46 (3): 316–325.
Published: 01 September 1985
... for modern audiences, but I think
the unpleasant undertones we feel may be culturally determined, as
are the elaborate practical jokes recounted by Castiglione appropri-
ate for a courtier. The demeaning and often cruel practical joke
seems to us to belong in the company of Richard Nixon’s White...
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