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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... incongruity theory , articulated in the nineteenth century by Schopenhauer . It is not absolutely incom- patible with the superiority theory : indeed , the relation between all three main theories is best described as one of overlap ...
... incongruity theory , articulated in the nineteenth century by Schopenhauer . It is not absolutely incom- patible with the superiority theory : indeed , the relation between all three main theories is best described as one of overlap ...
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... incongruity . The specific incongruity in question is the gap between human aspirations and human insignificance , between our image of our- selves and the reality . Beckett's plays , for example , are full of striking images of stunted ...
... incongruity . The specific incongruity in question is the gap between human aspirations and human insignificance , between our image of our- selves and the reality . Beckett's plays , for example , are full of striking images of stunted ...
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... Incongruity , which we have already used to account for the ele- ment of humour and comedy in some absurdist and existen- tialist fictions , is still powerfully present in such later works as Gravity's Rainbow , and the incongruities ...
... Incongruity , which we have already used to account for the ele- ment of humour and comedy in some absurdist and existen- tialist fictions , is still powerfully present in such later works as Gravity's Rainbow , and the incongruities ...
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Laughter | 1 |
Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
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