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  1. Kipling the Trickster
    Knowingness, Practical Jokes and the Use of Superior Knowledge in Kipling's Short Stories
    Author: Coates, John
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Peter Lang Ltd, Oxford ; Peter Lang International Academic Publishers, Bern

    This book is an exploration of the way in which the characters in Rudyard Kipling’s short stories use superior knowledge, which often involves deception and the playing of practical jokes. There was early critical hostility to the stance adopted by... more

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    This book is an exploration of the way in which the characters in Rudyard Kipling’s short stories use superior knowledge, which often involves deception and the playing of practical jokes. There was early critical hostility to the stance adopted by Kipling’s characters, that of a superior knowledge acquired by friendship with a small male circle. This book engages with a long-standing critical tradition which treats the jokes as acts of vicarious revenge or symptoms of supposed defects in Kipling’s personality, instead setting his use of the practical joke in the wider social context of his time. In this book Kipling’s writing is examined for what it reveals about a complex, self-conscious but powerful range of values rather than what it is supposed to disguise or conceal. Although he endorsed British colonial rule, Kipling was frank about the slackness, endemic rule-breaking and second-rate nature of British rule in India. He also criticised some of the widespread cultural, religious and moral phenomena of his time, which he thought harmful. Many of his short stories contain an implied but serious criticism of Victorian beliefs, from attitudes to death-beds, and schoolboys to Positivism. «Kipling’s knowingness and enjoyment of hoaxes are often mentioned in discussions of his work, but John Coates provides a thorough, absorbing and illuminating exploration of these aspects and their significance, offering readers what almost amounts to a «new Kipling».»(Professor Harry Ricketts, Victoria University of Wellington)...

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781800793422
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    DDC Categories: 820
    Edition: 1st, New ed.
    Subjects: Kurzgeschichte; Trickster <Motiv>; Streich <Scherz, Motiv>
    Other subjects: Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
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  2. Kipling the Trickster
    Knowingness, Practical Jokes and the Use of Superior Knowledge in Kipling's Short Stories
    Author: Coates, John
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  NBN International, La Vergne, TN 37086

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  3. Kipling the Trickster
    Knowingness, Practical Jokes and the Use of Superior Knowledge in Kipling's Short Stories
    Author: Coates, John
    Published: 2021; ©2021
    Publisher:  NBN International, La Vergne, TN 37086

    Kipling's use of superior knowledge as the basis for deception and practical jokes is discussed in this book within the wider social context of his time. His writing is examined for what it reveals about a complex, self-conscious but powerful range... more

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    Kipling's use of superior knowledge as the basis for deception and practical jokes is discussed in this book within the wider social context of his time. His writing is examined for what it reveals about a complex, self-conscious but powerful range of values, including his criticisms of British colonial rule and Victorian practices. Cover -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Knowingness, Practical Jokes and the Use of Superior Knowledge in Kipling's Short Stories -- Chapter 1: Approaches to Kipling's Comic Writing -- Chapter 2: Kipling and Practical Jokes -- Chapter 3: 'The God from the Machine' -- Chapter 4: 'Private Learoyd's Story' -- Chapter 5: 'Thrown Away' -- Chapter 6: 'A Bank Fraud' -- Chapter 7: 'Lispeth' -- Chapter 8: 'The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin' -- Chapter 9: 'Watches of the Night' -- Chapter 10: 'Three and - an Extra' -- Chapter 11: 'My Sunday at Home' -- Chapter 12: The Imminent Peril and Narrow Escape of the Knowing Narrator -- Chapter 13: The Knowing Narrator: 'On the City Wall' -- Chapter 14: 'The Village that Voted the Earth Was Flat' -- Chapter 15: 'Dayspring Mishandled' -- Bibliography -- Index.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781800793422
    Subjects: Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (294 pages)
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