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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... humour , for the sympathetic reader , consists partly of release from fear on Petworth's behalf . A Freudian critic , Ernst Kris , notes that this sudden release from anxiety , leading to laughter , does not work for everybody , and our ...
... humour , for the sympathetic reader , consists partly of release from fear on Petworth's behalf . A Freudian critic , Ernst Kris , notes that this sudden release from anxiety , leading to laughter , does not work for everybody , and our ...
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... humour of Donald McGill , likewise stressed the popularity of sexual and scatological jokes . So did Eric Bentley , whose essay on the psy- chology of farce suggests that ' gross wishes ' ( roughly equivalent to Freud's cynical jokes ) ...
... humour of Donald McGill , likewise stressed the popularity of sexual and scatological jokes . So did Eric Bentley , whose essay on the psy- chology of farce suggests that ' gross wishes ' ( roughly equivalent to Freud's cynical jokes ) ...
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... humour often manifests itself on a relatively small scale , at the level of the word or phrase . The most obvious type of small - scale linguistic joke is the pun , some exam- ples of which we have already considered . Puns , as ...
... humour often manifests itself on a relatively small scale , at the level of the word or phrase . The most obvious type of small - scale linguistic joke is the pun , some exam- ples of which we have already considered . Puns , as ...
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Laughter | 1 |
Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
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