Li'l Abner: a Study in American Satire

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Univ. Press of Mississippi, 1970 - 191 頁

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ILLUSTRATIONS
9
Popular Culture the Comics
23
Lil Abners Place in American
48
Narrative Technique and
70
Dialogue and Damnation
105
Capps Graphic Technique Social
131
Conclusions
152
AFTERWORD
169
APPENDIX
182
INDEX
200
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第 194 頁 - The pleasure in jokes has seemed to us to arise from an economy in expenditure upon inhibition, the pleasure in the comic from an economy in expenditure upon ideation (upon cathexis) and the pleasure in humour from an economy in expenditure upon feeling.
第 126 頁 - And the king lamented over Abner, and said, Died Abner as a fool dieth ? Thy hands were not bound, nor thy feet put into fetters : as a man falleth before wicked men, so fellest thou.
第 56 頁 - Very few in this Country have the Industry to plant Orchards, which, in a Dearth of Rum, might supply them with much better Liquor. The Truth is, there is one Inconvenience that easily discourages lazy People from making This improvement: very often, in Autumn, when the Apples begin to ripen, they are visited with Numerous Flights of paraqueets, that bite all the Fruit to Pieces in a moment, for the sake of the Kernels.
第 95 頁 - I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
第 58 頁 - ... carried, he run well. But the dogs soon tired him down, and when I came up with him wasn't he in a beautiful sweat — I might say fever; and then to see his tongue sticking out of his mouth a feet, and his sides sinking and opening like a bellows, and his cheeks so fat he couldn't look cross. In this fix I blazed at him, and pitch me naked into a briar patch if the steam didn't come out of the bullet-hole ten foot in a straight line. The fellow, I reckon, was made on the high-pressure system,...
第 58 頁 - That column of steam was rather curious, or else the bear must have been warm," observed the foreigner, with a laugh.
第 49 頁 - Satire demands at least a token fantasy, a content which the reader recognizes as grotesque, and at least an implicit moral standard, the latter being essential in a militant attitude to experience.
第 62 頁 - I actid jis' adzacly as they dus; I darted on all fours onder mam's petticoatails, an' thar I met, face tu face, the wooden bowl, an' the mush, an* the spoon what she slid onder frum tuther side. I'se mad at mysef yet, fur rite thar I show'd the fust flash ove the nat'ral born durn fool what I now is. I orter et hit all up, in jestis tu my stumick an' my growin, while the sheriff wer levyin ontu the bed an
第 59 頁 - fictitious or imaginary person or object," and "a purely fictitious narrative usually involving supernatural persons, actions, or events, and embodying some popular idea concerning natural or historical phenomenon. Often used vaguely to include any narrative having fictitious elements.
第 57 頁 - What season of the year do your hunts take place?" inquired a gentlemanly foreigner, who, from some peculiarities of his baggage, I suspected to be an Englishman, on some hunting expedition, probably at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. "The season for bar hunting, stranger," said the man of Arkansaw, "is generally all the year round, and the hunts take place about as regular.

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