The Cream of the Jest Dr Daniela A. L. LourencoThe Cream of the Jest (1923) is a novel by James Branch Cabell. Set in a world where history and fantasy collide, where a lowly pawnbroker can encounter monsters, gods, and devils, The Cream of the Jest is one work in a series of novels, essays, and poems known as the Biography of the Life of Manuel. Partly inspired by the obscenity trial surrounding his novel Jurgen, a Comedy of Justice, The Cream of the Jest is a metafictional blend of literary
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And it is about the relationship between myth-making and historical materiality and the ways in which the people of this northern archipelago have imagined their past
Challenges established opinions on modern Iberian theatre by considering the roles of contrasting figures and companies who have impacted upon both the practice and the perception of Spanish and European stages
Ahmed Aboul Gheit served as Egypt’s minister of foreign affairs under President Hosni Mubarak from 2004 until 2011
This book investigates the digital transformation of aid as a form of humanitarian extractivism
An investigation of a wide range of contemporary sources
Examines the reception of Brazil's most-canonized writer in the United States to shed light on questions of Blackness and hemispheric American experience
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