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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... stories in Boccaccio's Decameron , written in the mid - fourteenth century , influenced the revival of Italian comic ... story or plot which moves towards a laughable or celebratory ending . ) I shall , however , allude from time to time ...
... stories in Boccaccio's Decameron , written in the mid - fourteenth century , influenced the revival of Italian comic ... story or plot which moves towards a laughable or celebratory ending . ) I shall , however , allude from time to time ...
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... story that makes him vulnerable to his later punishment and humilia- tion , but there is also another factor which will be developed in the later stories : the ease with which the victim can be manipu- lated by appeals to his ...
... story that makes him vulnerable to his later punishment and humilia- tion , but there is also another factor which will be developed in the later stories : the ease with which the victim can be manipu- lated by appeals to his ...
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... story about a clergyman who cabled his bishop to announce the sudden death of his wife , and to request a substitute for the following Sunday . To the sender of the cable , it would be clear that what he wanted was a substitute preacher ...
... story about a clergyman who cabled his bishop to announce the sudden death of his wife , and to request a substitute for the following Sunday . To the sender of the cable , it would be clear that what he wanted was a substitute preacher ...
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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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