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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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2016
The authors explain that race prejudices are a product of the same sort of medieval ignorance that gave rise to beliefs in vampires, werewolves and witches. Racism is founded on two false assumptions: that it is possible to clearly determine racial boundaries and qualitatively rank racial groups.
Timothy McGettigan, Earl Smith
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The authors explain that race prejudices are a product of the same sort of medieval ignorance that gave rise to beliefs in vampires, werewolves and witches. Racism is founded on two false assumptions: that it is possible to clearly determine racial boundaries and qualitatively rank racial groups.
Timothy McGettigan, Earl Smith
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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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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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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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