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... essay " On Wit and Humour " are very much in the classic tra- dition of comic criticism : Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself ; wit is the exposing it , by comparing or contrasting it with something else . Humour ...
... essay " On Wit and Humour " are very much in the classic tra- dition of comic criticism : Humour is the describing the ludicrous as it is in itself ; wit is the exposing it , by comparing or contrasting it with something else . Humour ...
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Mon- taigne's pre- eminence as an essayist Journal- istic essays Essays for entertain- ment Political essays. figures ... ESSAY In modern literatures , the category of nonfictional prose that probably ranks as the most important both in ...
Mon- taigne's pre- eminence as an essayist Journal- istic essays Essays for entertain- ment Political essays. figures ... ESSAY In modern literatures , the category of nonfictional prose that probably ranks as the most important both in ...
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Essays for entertain- ment Political essays H Inter- pretive history Russian philosophi- cal essays. others seized upon the essay for scathingly ironical and destructive criticism of their culture : for example , James Gibbons Huneker ...
Essays for entertain- ment Political essays H Inter- pretive history Russian philosophi- cal essays. others seized upon the essay for scathingly ironical and destructive criticism of their culture : for example , James Gibbons Huneker ...
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