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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... turn so that the laugher becomes the butt . This , in fact , is what happens in Giles Goat - Boy . The hero's ... turns up at the appointed time and makes an unexpectedly good start which puts him ahead of the field . But he fails to ...
... turn so that the laugher becomes the butt . This , in fact , is what happens in Giles Goat - Boy . The hero's ... turns up at the appointed time and makes an unexpectedly good start which puts him ahead of the field . But he fails to ...
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... turns out to be true of most works reminiscent of Old Comedy which have appeared since Aristophanes ' time . This in turn reminds us that 20 Comedy and Related Forms.
... turns out to be true of most works reminiscent of Old Comedy which have appeared since Aristophanes ' time . This in turn reminds us that 20 Comedy and Related Forms.
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... turn against an undesirable outsider : the operation of punishing a scapegoat is carried on within the framework of a festivity or game . Elsewhere in Kundera's book a young woman dissenter is exiled to an island inhabited entirely by ...
... turn against an undesirable outsider : the operation of punishing a scapegoat is carried on within the framework of a festivity or game . Elsewhere in Kundera's book a young woman dissenter is exiled to an island inhabited entirely by ...
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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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