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Philosophy as Farce, or Farce as Philosophy
Philosophy, 1984Tom Stoppard's Jumpers is a play rich in philosophical material.1 Clearly anyone seeking to understand and evaluate Jumpers has to come to terms with this material, so it seems natural to suppose that philosophers should be at some advantage here.
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Fascism as a Farce of Farce: Totalitarian Propaganda
2021In his study, Kracauer—leaning on the definitions developed by Marx and Trotsky—analyses fascism as a form of Bonapartism; namely: as an atypical bourgeois regime in which the State, placed in the hands of a presumably charismatic leader, acquires relative autonomy such that it provides its services to the ruling classes without appearing to be subject
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French Politics, Culture & Society, 2021
This article explores the appropriation and translation of historical notions of “empire” into the modern era through close examination of the short-lived Central African Empire, imagined and brought to life by the flamboyant Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa.
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This article explores the appropriation and translation of historical notions of “empire” into the modern era through close examination of the short-lived Central African Empire, imagined and brought to life by the flamboyant Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa.
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Cahiers Élisabéthains: A Journal of English Renaissance Studies, 2018
As the genre of farce more generally, Shakespeare’s early farce The Comedy of Errors is often dismissed as superficial because of its farcical elements, or its farcical nature is downplayed by well-meaning critics. In this essay, I argue that it is precisely in its farcical superficiality that the play unfolds sceptical philosophical potential ...
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As the genre of farce more generally, Shakespeare’s early farce The Comedy of Errors is often dismissed as superficial because of its farcical elements, or its farcical nature is downplayed by well-meaning critics. In this essay, I argue that it is precisely in its farcical superficiality that the play unfolds sceptical philosophical potential ...
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1989
Jonathan Culler, in Structuralist Poetics, argues that part of the basis on which we make sense of texts is ‘by the existence of the genre, which the author can write against … (and) which is the context within which his activity takes place’.1 Genre helps to create the contract between reader or spectator and writer, the frame of acceptance which ...
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Jonathan Culler, in Structuralist Poetics, argues that part of the basis on which we make sense of texts is ‘by the existence of the genre, which the author can write against … (and) which is the context within which his activity takes place’.1 Genre helps to create the contract between reader or spectator and writer, the frame of acceptance which ...
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Farce and Ritual: Arrabal's Contribution to Modern Tragic Farce
Modern Drama, 1983T.J. Donahue and J.-J. Daetwyler have recently given various interpretations of the symbolism within the ritual of Arrabal's plays. Looking at what is generally considered the best of them, L'Archirecre er l' Empereur d'Assyrie (I966), for instance, Donahue says that it is here "that the use of ritual finds its richest and most profound significance, .
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The FARC in Colombia: Collective Reintegration and Social Identity Transformation
Political Psychology, 2022Andreas Gluecker +2 more
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1985
For this last main chapter I have brought together two further short works which Stoppard created for Inter-Action, Dirty Linen (first performed in 1976) and Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth (first staged in 1979), together with the ‘adaptation’ On the Razzle, which opened at the National Theatre in 1981.
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For this last main chapter I have brought together two further short works which Stoppard created for Inter-Action, Dirty Linen (first performed in 1976) and Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth (first staged in 1979), together with the ‘adaptation’ On the Razzle, which opened at the National Theatre in 1981.
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2005
Clearly, Miss Lowe was not going to be content to leave Del in the Strack household. Until that point Del’s previous employer would have been unaware that she had said anything to anybody, presumably secure in the assumption that she would be too frightened to do so.
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Clearly, Miss Lowe was not going to be content to leave Del in the Strack household. Until that point Del’s previous employer would have been unaware that she had said anything to anybody, presumably secure in the assumption that she would be too frightened to do so.
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