Background
Feinberg, Leonard was born on August 26, 1914 in Vitebsk, Russia. Son of Samuel and Belle (Feinberg) Aleshker. came to the United States, 1923, naturalized, 1933.
(Waking the Tiger is a novel set in late-1950s Sri Lanka, ...)
Waking the Tiger is a novel set in late-1950s Sri Lanka, a country at the edge of a gathering storm of violence. Feinberg weaves a complex story of the clash between cultures and castes, expats and ex-colonials, Hindu swamis and Buddhist priests, politicians and entrepeneurs, Sinhalese and Tamils, idealism and realism. Filled with vivid accounts of local customs and locales, Waking the Tiger sardonically describes the underbelly of an apparent paradise. Feinberg lived in Sri Lanka with his family from 1957-1958, when he was Fulbright lecturer in American Literature at the University of Ceylon.
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(For more than two thousand years we have known satirists ...)
For more than two thousand years we have known satirists as those wits who expose hypocrisy and deftly stick shafts into our ballooned egos. Collectively we resent this perspicacity-satirists are never much liked. We give them their due, however, by admiring their ability to make us laugh while they make us squirm. Introduction to Satire explains fully how the satirist manages to express his criticism in forms that society is willing to accept-in spite of the fact that no one likes to be criticized. New introduction by Don L. F. Nilsen, Historian. International Society for Humor Studies.
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Feinberg, Leonard was born on August 26, 1914 in Vitebsk, Russia. Son of Samuel and Belle (Feinberg) Aleshker. came to the United States, 1923, naturalized, 1933.
Bachelor of Science, University Illinois, 1937. Master of Arts, University Illinois, 1938. Doctor of Philosophy, University Illinois, 1946.
Instructor, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1946; assistant Professor of English, Iowa State University, Ames, 1946-1950; associate professor, Iowa State University, 1950-1957; professor, Iowa State University, 1957-1982; Distinguished professor science and humanities, Iowa State University, 1973-1982; retired, Iowa State University, 1982. Fulbright lecturer U. Ceylon, 1957-1958. Visiting lecturer, India, Japan, Hong Kong, Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia.
(For more than two thousand years we have known satirists ...)
(Waking the Tiger is a novel set in late-1950s Sri Lanka, ...)
( Satire takes as its subject the absurdity of human bein...)
(Contents: 1. Concepts of Humor; 2. Aggression in Humor; 3...)
(576 pages. It is an ex-library copy. The back hinge parti...)
(576 pages. It is an ex-library copy. The back hinge parti...)
Served with United States Navy, 1943-1945.
Married Lilian Okner, November 26, 1938. Children: Thomas (deceased), Elyn.