Authenticity‚ Simulation and American Literature Prof. Dr. Jochen Achilles Winter Semester 2010/ 2011 “With enough soap‚ you could blow up the world.” Soap‚ Civilization and Questions of Authenticity in Chuck Palahniuk´s and David Fincher´s Fight Club (AE) March 10‚ 2011 Johannes Pfundt Scherenbergstr. 7 97082 Würzburg johannes.pfundt@gmx.de Amerikanistik‚ Kulturwissenschaften der englischsprachigen Länder‚ Pädagogik (M.A.) 3rd Semester Matr. No. 1584685 Table of Content
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Introduction Comedy is a form of entertainment that brings laughter and uses wit and humor. Comedy is a performed humor which covers scripted or improvised dialogue done by a group‚ duo or in solo; in any medium; television‚ radio or theatre. Plato asserts that comedy is a mixture of pleasure and pain causing laughter at the ridiculous situations of those who are ignorant of their own weaknesses. For Plato‚ comedy is destructive; it is ‘dark‚’ (Aichele‚ 1980). On the other hand‚ for Aristotle‚ comedy is creative
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She Stoops to Conquer Tom Davis’s introduction to Oliver Goldsmith’s play (E. Benn / Norton‚ 1979) The Author Oliver Goldsmith was born an Irishman‚ the second son of a not very affluent clergyman‚ probably in the village of Pallas‚ County Westmeath‚ probably in 1730. Soon afterwards the family moved to the village of Lissoy‚ one of the candidates for the role of Auburn in Goldmith’s famous pastoral The Deserted Village. The intensity of the longing for the idealized village of the poem is
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1. Clubs are mainly financed by monthly subscriptions from members‚ known as membership fees. The amount of membership fees and how it will be paid is clearly stipulated in the constitution of the club‚ and is decided upon by the Management Committee. Additional income that clubs operate on are entrance fees‚ which are paid once by new members‚ profit from sale of refreshments‚ profit on sale of jerseys‚ tracksuits‚ shirts and socks. Donations received is also considered as an income‚ as well as
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night clubs‚ over a period of twenty-two years" (qtd. in Costello xii). Obviously from the beginning of Abbott and Costello’s careers‚ these two comics were indeed talented. Before Costello‚ Abbott had previously
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It’s your turn to have girls night out and you and your friends decide that you want to have a great laugh tonight‚ so you all decide to go to a comedy club but as your clapping your hands for the comedian to come out‚ you stop clapping because a woman is on the stage for the night. You now feel like that great laugh you wanted to have tonight is not going to be so great. Why do people react this way towards women comedians? People feel that women cannot relay a funny joke the same way as a man‚
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Our five senses are not enough for ideal living. We need to use our sixth sense: our sense of humor. Humor is not merely telling jokes; it is the way we view the world. We can be sincere about life without taking it so seriously. We can laugh about our mistakes and pain. Louis Kornenberger explains: Humor simultaneously wounds and heals‚ indicts and pardons‚ diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain.Yet‚ we humans laugh an average of only 17 times a day. Biologically
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Senior Prom My senior prom night became a comedy of errors when I was asked to represent the Drama Club. I expected it to be a night that dreams are made of; instead‚ I was provided with a less than perfect evening. I wanted to give Richard‚ my date and escort‚ a dazzling first impression by meeting him at the door in my beautiful Southern belle dress. When Richard arrived‚ he was met at the door by my father instead of me‚ and he found my mother lying at my feet on the living room floor‚
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written between 1598 and 1599‚ it was first published in a good quarto in 1600. It is a mature romantic comedy‚ and has enjoyed considerable success in the theatre. This would make Much Ado one of Shakespeare’s later comedies. This is a specific comedy because the humour of Much Ado about Nothing does not depend upon funny situations. Though it has some similarities with earlier plays‚ the comedy of Much Ado derives from the characters themselves and the manners of the highly mannered society in which
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SKETCH NIGHT‚ 10 COMEDY SKITS FOR TEENS by Tim Kochenderfer Brooklyn Publishers‚ LLC Toll-Free 888-473-8521 Fax 319-368-8011 Web www.brookpub.com Copyright © 2001 by Tim Kochenderfer All rights reserved CAUTION: Professionals & amateurs are hereby warned that Sketch Night; 10 Comedy Skits for Teens is subject to a royalty. This play is fully protected under the copyright laws of the United States of America‚ Canada‚ the British Commonwealth and all other countries of the Copyright
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