Comedy: An Introduction to Comedy in Literature, Drama, and CinemaOxford University Press, 1990 - 197 páginas From Plautus, Cervantes, and Dickens to Evelyn Waugh, Joseph Heller, and Tom Stoppard, from A Midsummer Night's Dream to Arsenic and Old Lace and Woody Allen, this concise and readable book provides a thorough introduction to comic criticism. Nelson shows that there are significant recurring patterns of comedy both in the classics and in more popular and commercial works. He discusses such themes as the link between comedy and carnival, the apparent obsession of modern writers with linguistic comedy, and the dilemma of feminists faced with traditional comedy that is largely sexist in nature. |
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... enjoy laughing at other people's physical deformities and at the misfortunes , especially bodily misfortunes , which befall them . The narrator of Gravity's Rainbow , a grotesquely comic novel by the American writer Thomas Pynchon ...
... enjoy laughing at other people's physical deformities and at the misfortunes , especially bodily misfortunes , which befall them . The narrator of Gravity's Rainbow , a grotesquely comic novel by the American writer Thomas Pynchon ...
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... enjoy- ment of its comedy overrode his antipathy to its philosophy . Raymond Queneau's comic novel Zazie dans le Métro resem- bles The Blues Brothers and Jumpers in that , while its unorthodox approach to the sacred might be ...
... enjoy- ment of its comedy overrode his antipathy to its philosophy . Raymond Queneau's comic novel Zazie dans le Métro resem- bles The Blues Brothers and Jumpers in that , while its unorthodox approach to the sacred might be ...
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... enjoy nonsense by letting it play unhindered upon the mind . Though Alice's attitude to this donnish figure is deferential , the reader is liable to feel superior , setting down Humpty Dumpty as an object of ridicule . ( Even Alice ...
... enjoy nonsense by letting it play unhindered upon the mind . Though Alice's attitude to this donnish figure is deferential , the reader is liable to feel superior , setting down Humpty Dumpty as an object of ridicule . ( Even Alice ...
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Laughter | 1 |
Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
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Comedy: An Introduction to Comedy in Literature, Drama, and Cinema T. G. A. Nelson Visualização de excertos - 1990 |
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