Related Books

Comical Modernity
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Heidi Hakkarainen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-11 - Publisher: Berghahn Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Though long associated with a small group of coffeehouse elites around the turn of the twentieth century, Viennese “modernist” culture had roots that reache
Baudelaire and Caricature: From the Comic to an Art of Modernity
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors:
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: - Publisher: Penn State Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Baudelaire's essays on caricature offered the first sustained defense of the value of caricature as a serious art, worthy of study in its own right. This book a
Egon Schiele and the Art of Popular Illustration
Language: en
Pages: 416
Authors: Claude Cernuschi
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-09-02 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Presenting a radically different picture of Egon Schiele’s work, this study documents (in one-to-one comparisons) the extent of the artist’s visual borrowin
The Literature of Ireland
Language: en
Pages: 293
Authors: Terence Brown
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-01 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

One of Ireland's foremost literary and cultural historians, Terence Brown's command of the intellectual and cultural currents running through the Irish literary
Serious Comedy
Language: en
Pages: 510
Authors: Patrick Downey
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Lexington Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The question of how seriously to take literature has vexed philosophers throughout the centuries. Are the stories we write merely noble lies told to hold societ