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Uses of Humor in Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit and Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson

pasta bars thats ferr shurr. To "that stone that Dante used to sit on" watching Beatrice pass by to get a piece of chestnut cake...

Humorist Mark Twain

well-familiar, spoken in a regional dialect they could easily understand. According to Twain, "Humor must not professedly teach, ...

Adventures with a Texas Naturalist by Roy Bedicheck

In five pages this paper discusses how this text blends a picturesque landscape with humor and wisdom. Two sources are cited in t...

Analysis of the Comedy Genre

In five pages this paper analyzes the comedy genre in terms of the social and personal importance of humor and what exactly makes ...

Humor and Psychology

Freud, these jokes directed aggressiveness, which was disguised by the faulty reasoning in the jokes, against the family members i...

Caribbean Poetry and Humor

In six pages this paper analyzes some examples of irony and humor found in Caribbean poetry. Three sources are cited in the bibli...

Lina Wertmuller's Seven Beauties and Ernest Becker's Escape from Evil

In five pages this report examines Becker's 1975 novel with Wertmuller's 1976 film in a comparative analysis of the dark humor and...

Faith and Humor

In eight pages this paper examines the use of humor in religion and faith in a consideration of Jesus, Isaac, and faith supporters...

A Review of Holes

A 5 page analysis of irony and dark humor in the book by Louis Sachar. Character and plot development revolve around both. 1 sourc...

Uses of Humor in The Crying Lot of 49 by Thomas Pynchon and White Noise by Don DeLillo

In thirteen pages this paper examines how American culture, specifically, the American Dream, is critiqued using humor in each of ...

Romeo and His Friend Mercutio's Opinion of Him

through. Romeo is very serious about life and his feelings, sometimes too serious for me, I must admit. But, while my life often...

Humor in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages the humor exhibited in Chaucer's masterpiece is examined particularly in terms of its use in the comedic 'The Miller...

Chaucer and His Characters

In five pages The Canterbury Tales are considered in terms of what they reveal about the author, his compassion, humor, thoughts a...

At Fault by Kate Chopin

fiction demonstrates that she was an accomplished practitioner of humor, which she sometimes employed to avoid the sentimentality ...

'Shinel' by Gogol

his present life we see his past, and his birth which provides us with a quick and humorous journey into who is now is: "They chri...

The Poet and the Women by Aristophanes

p. 102). As this indicates, Mnesilochus humor is low-brow, earthy and very funny. The crux of the plot soon comes out as Euripide...

Renaissance Art's Changing Aspects

structures, art, sculpture, glass works, decorative pieces and illuminated composition from the twelfth through the sixteenth cent...

Art's Importance to the Educational System

core values of a culture" (Kreiter 66). For example, Roman painters depicted orators, philosophers and athletes in their art, and ...

Boston Museum of Fine Arts' Oceania

present themselves from this type of construction is to realize that any type of artwork may be perceived differently from the tim...

Master of Liberal Arts' Program Letter of Educational Intent

no study of economics can be complete without including a focus on the issues of globalization. Whereas companies sought to enter...

Brooklyn Museum of Art's Lee Krasner

In five pages this paper considers painter Lee Krasner within the context of her observation 'The key is what is within the artist...

Art's Golden Mean and the Development of the Fibonacci Sequence

In six pages this paper examines The Annunciation of Leonardo da Vinci in a consideration of the Fibonacci mathematical sequence, ...

Bauhaus, Art Nouveau, and Arts and Crafts

As Ruskin stated, all cast from the machine is bad, as work it is dishonest" (The Arts and Crafts Movement in the American Midwest...

Critical Analysis: Artificial Intelligence And Art's Refreshing Nature

highly unimaginable - solution for bypassing the impasse: reengineer the human brain because "after spending years researching art...

20th Century Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

both sides of the border throughout the Southwest. Here, the boxcar is a solid black shape that fills almost the entire area of th...

Nina Zaragoza's 'Rethinking Language Arts'

strengths and power of all children, rather than the weaknesses (Zaragoza, 1997) Perfectionism is an issue because it distances th...

Medieval Art, Ancient Art, and Divine Nature

In five pages the depiction of divine nature in the Greek marble Girl with Doves and the German stained glass Six Scenes from a Tr...

Wilkins and Schultz's Text 'Art Past, Art Present'

analyses of art, artists, patrons, and techniques. It retains its unique chronological presentation in compact topical units, offe...

The Development of Russian art from the Mid Nineteenth Century to the Mid Twentieth Century

Impressionism 227 Socialist Realism 260 References 267 Table of Figures Figure 1 Tair Salakhov The Shift Is Over 183 Figure 2 ...

Erma Bombeck's Humor

In six pages the career and stylistic changes of humorist Erma Bombeck are considered. Seven sources are cited in the bibliograph...