As the 18th century progressed, the nobility became the primary patrons of instrumental music, and there was a rise in the public taste for comic opera.

The decade of the 1960s saw the rise of underground newspapers, which often carried comic strips, such as Fritz the Cat and The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.

The growing popularity of Uncanny X-Men and the rise of comic book specialty stores led to the introduction of a number of ongoing spin-off series nicknamed " X-Books.

Slowly the book's critical capital began to rise to the point that, in 1957, Northrop Frye described Finnegans Wake as the “ chief ironic epic of our time ” and Anthony Burgess lauded the book as " a great comic vision, one of the few books of the world that can make us laugh aloud on nearly every page.

Following Eugene Rougon's rise to political power in Paris in La Fortune, his younger brother Aristide, featured in the first novel as a talentless journalist, a comic character unable to commit himself unequivocally to the imperial cause and thus left out in the cold when the rewards were being handed out, decides to follow Eugene to Paris to help himself to the wealth and power he now believes to be his birthright.

Doggerel has been deliberately used for comic or satiric effect, as exemplified by John Skelton ( giving rise to a variety of verse known as " skeltonics ", defined as " short rhyming lines of irregular length, which build up a spasmodic energy from a rumble-tumble of rhymes in a melange of different languages, in which dog Latin and dog English fight out the sense between them ".

His evidence for the disappearance of childhood: the rise of crime perpetrated by and against children ; the increase in sexual activity and drug / alcohol abuse in children ; children and adults sharing musical tastes, language, literature, and movies ( many big budget movies are comic books that would have been marketed solely to children years ago ); the lack of differentiated clothing styles ( little girls in high heels, grown men in sneakers ).

* The Tragedy of the Rape of Lucrece ( 1608 ), which chronicles the rise and fall of Tarquin as presented by a " merry lord ", Valerius, who lightens the gloom of the situation by singing comic songs

The novels gave rise to a comic book series, video game and later TV movies and a series, both of the latter featuring Shatner.

With the rise in recent years of films based on comic book properties, the publishers of the adapted properties have also started producing prequel comics as supplemental material, set in the canon of the films rather than that of the source material.

The Yellow Kid was one of the first comic strips to be printed in color and gave rise to the phrase yellow journalism, used to describe the sensationalist and often dishonest articles, which helped, along with a one-cent price tag, to greatly increase circulation of the newspaper.

" With the solicitation of their second issue, Eastman and Laird's Turtles comic began a meteoric rise to success, bringing in advance orders of 15, 000 copies-five times the initial print run of the first issue.

" With the solicitation of their second issue, Eastman and Laird's Turtles comic began a meteoric rise to success, bringing in advance orders of 15, 000 copies-five times the initial print run of the first issue.

In addition to the portrayals of the three tragic heroes, the film offers performances by supporting cast members, in particular Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah, who open the film in their roles as black comic relief corrupt police inspectors-cum-astrologers, who predict the fall of Abba Ji — who has them on his payroll — and the rise and fall of Maqbool.

The last decade has seen a rise in the Indian comic book industry, especially after the Virgin Comics ' launch.

The first few decades of the 20th century also saw the rise of popular, comic musical theater, such as the vaudeville tradition and composers and writers like Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern and Ira Gershwin.

The Masters of American Comics explored the rise of newspaper comic strips and comic books while considering their artistic development throughout the century.

By the 1990s, with the rise of personal computers and the graphical user interface, the public conception of computers became more friendly and sophisticated, and the image of the computer intelligence unable to respond gracefully to unexpected inputs has gradually faded away from fiction, though the phrase did show up in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace as comic relief in 1999.

In the 1980s, the growing popularity of Uncanny X-Men and the rise of comic book specialty stores lead to the introduction of several spin-off series nicknamed " X-Books.

Ironically, Hickman also poked a little fun at the growing cynicism and rise in popularity of the gritty, scowling, heavy-handed anti-heroes who became so ubiquitous in the main-stream American comic industry from the late 1980s through the mid 2000s, but his " big break " came from a publisher primarily known for producing just such comics.

He then grabs the book from the cradle, and rushes back to the castle, while the dead rise from graves all around.

Because the book of Habbakuk consists of five oracles about the Chaldeans ( Babylonians ), and the Chaldean rise to power is dated circa 612 BCE, it is assumed he was active about that time, making him an early contemporary of Jeremiah and Zephaniah.

The matrix can be reused to create hundreds, or thousands, of identical sorts so that the same character appearing anywhere within the book will appear very uniform, giving rise, over time, to the development of distinct styles of typefaces or fonts.

Weber is perhaps best known for his thesis combining economic sociology and the sociology of religion, elaborated in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, in which he proposed that ascetic Protestantism was one of the major " elective affinities " associated with the rise in the Western world of market-driven capitalism and the rational-legal nation-state.

The astronomer Tycho Brahe observed the supernova SN 1572 in the constellation Cassiopeia, and described it in his book De stella nova ( Latin for " concerning the new star "), giving rise to the name nova.

The particles were never observed to rise above 6 km and when combined with scavenging by clouds gave the smoke a short residency time in the atmosphere and localized its effects ; Professor Carl Sagan of the Turco, Toon, Ackerman, Pollack, Sagan ( TTAPS ) study hypothesized in January 1991 that enough smoke from the fires " might get so high as to disrupt agriculture in much of South Asia ...." Sagan later conceded in his book The Demon-Haunted World that this prediction did not turn out to be correct: " it was pitch black at noon and temperatures dropped 4 °– 6 ° C over the Persian Gulf, but not much smoke reached stratospheric altitudes and Asia was spared.

" His rise to and stint as Chairman are chronicled in Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward's book, State of Denial, as well as his own book " Eyes on The Horizon ".

Taking a more positive position, Mettinger argues in his recent book that the category of rise and return to life is significant for the following deities: Ugaritic Baal, Melqart, Adonis, Eshmun, Osiris and Dumuzi.

This rise to fame fueled the sales of a small instruction book he had written about military scouting, Aids to Scouting.

As Walter Burkert points out in his book, Greek Religion, " Even the gods who are not his natural children address him as Father, and all the gods rise in his presence.

** Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is released, giving rise to the modern environmentalist movement.

Morgan Llywelyn's book Finn Mac Cool tells of Fionn's rise to leader of the Fianna and the love stories that ensue in his life.

Geraldine Maillet, the celebrated French writer and former model, relates with humour and cynicism the rise and decline of the supermodels in her book Presque Top Model.

Euclides is prompted to share his book when Terpsion wonders where he'd been: Euclides, who apparently can usually be found in the marketplace of Megara, was walking outside of the city and had happened upon Theaetetus being carried from Corinth to Athens with a case of dysentery and a minor war wound ; Euclides remarks that Socrates had made some uncanny predictions about Theaetetus needing to rise to fame.

The book tells the ( fictional ) story of the rise to fame of Dan Weir (' Weird '), a bass guitar player in a rock and roll band called Frozen Gold, and of his struggles to be happy now that he is rich and famous.

Historian Johan Huizinga remarks in his book The Waning of the Middle Ages, " the source of the chivalrous idea, is pride aspiring to beauty, and formalized pride gives rise to a conception of honour, which is the pole of noble life.

Although the book is unabashedly sentimental, it also depicts the sweeping social changes that Chips experiences throughout his life: he begins his tenure at Brookfield in 1870, as the Franco-Prussian War is breaking out and lies on his deathbed shortly after Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

He secured his literary niche in 1868 with the publication of his fourth book Ragged Dick, the story of a poor bootblack's rise to middle-class respectability, which was a huge success.

Meanwhile, in his 1993 BFI book on the film, Richard Dyer notes that owing to the rise of homosexual law reform, gay men also viewed the plight of the characters as comparable to their own social constraint in the formation and maintenance of relationships.

The book depicts Gunray's rise to Viceroy of the entire Trade Federation, the forging of his alliance with Darth Sidious and the events which lead up to the blockade of Naboo in Episode I.

This has given rise to a number of theories regarding the writing of the book: