Wit and the Writing of History: The Rhetoric of Historiography in Imperial RomeUniversity of Wisconsin Press, 1988 - 182 من الصفحات |
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... larger and truer frame of reference that subverts their original intention . Something of the sort happens in the anecdotes about the absentminded Claudius making official appointments with people on the very day after he had condemned ...
... larger and truer frame of reference that subverts their original intention . Something of the sort happens in the anecdotes about the absentminded Claudius making official appointments with people on the very day after he had condemned ...
الصفحة 64
... larger sense . The joke on capitalism and communism is a well - known example in epigram form : “ In capitalism one man exploits another , in communism it's the other way around . " 11 Cicero has a joke of the same kind on a woman ...
... larger sense . The joke on capitalism and communism is a well - known example in epigram form : “ In capitalism one man exploits another , in communism it's the other way around . " 11 Cicero has a joke of the same kind on a woman ...
الصفحة 143
... larger temporal structures whose coherence gives events their significance . ( The argument is in effect an open - ended version of Hero- dotus ' " count no man happy until he is dead . " ) Locution thus answers to " literal account ...
... larger temporal structures whose coherence gives events their significance . ( The argument is in effect an open - ended version of Hero- dotus ' " count no man happy until he is dead . " ) Locution thus answers to " literal account ...
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Ludibrium and Political Wit | 15 |
Techniques of Wit | 56 |
Enacted Wit | 69 |
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