Modern Times: Directed by Charles Chaplin. With Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Tiny Sandford. The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
Chinese modernist satire: Lao She's Mr Ma and Son (1929), Qian Zhongshu's Fortress Besieged (1947), and Eileen Chang's Legends (1944) This dissertation investigates configurations of the city in modern Chinese literature and film at two levels: (1) at the textual level, we analyze various...
The panelist demonstrates that Watchmen shares motifs with Roman satire and argues that Juvenal himself functions as an implicit figure of moral authority in the text (15 min.).These five presenters thus investigate popular "readings" of the Classical past and show the continued significance of ...
Oh, a cultural cosmogony, a Menippean satire, and most overwhelming of all, a sort of evangel. For you offer us the postulation that we can, in the shadow, or rather the radiance, of your own enchiridion, go and do likewise . Each reader, instructed and inspired by your own salvation...
The Lester Horton Dance Group first appeared in 1932 and became noted over the ensuing two decades for an individual technique and theatrical style that embraced themes of social and political protest as well as satire. Highlights of his repertory include at least six versions of Oscar Wilde's ...
NON SPORTS CARDS - Decent selection of 1950-1980's Singles (most Good-Excellent). including lots of 1975-1990 scarcer OPC versions of Topps Cards. Good selection of sets/inserts of 1990-94. No wax packs or foil boxes! COLLECTIBLE CARD GAMES: Singles only! From MAGIC (Unlimited, Revised,...
First, it's not meant to be "realistic", any more than 1984 or The Hunger Games are meant to be "realistic". It's a dystopian satire. Good satires make fun of extreme versions of real-world ideas and institutions. In fact, the 1+1=2 math problem is an obvious reference to Orwell...
MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE AND CULTURE过刊目录(1984-2013)Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (ISSN # 1520-9857), formerly Modern Chinese Literature (1984-1998), is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal devoted to the culture of modern and contemporary China, with "China" understood not in the narro...
Like many realist works written during the 1920s and 1930s, Lu Xun's True Story of Ah Q has been read as a satire of Chinese national characteristics. The... R Wang - 《East Asia》 被引量: 2发表: 1998年 Why Will Recall Lu Xun Again : A Counterargument of Wang Hui's Six Moments...