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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... young men in comedy , and the play as a whole is closer to what we know as sentimental comedy or comédie larmoyante than to riotous , uproarious , or harsh comedy . As if to compensate for this , Menander provides a closing scene which ...
... young men in comedy , and the play as a whole is closer to what we know as sentimental comedy or comédie larmoyante than to riotous , uproarious , or harsh comedy . As if to compensate for this , Menander provides a closing scene which ...
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... young woman's vision of herself as young , glittering , energetic , full of romance and promise . ' A heroine of romance with a big belly , or lying in , is a strange image , ' wrote Bayle in his influential Histori- cal and Critical ...
... young woman's vision of herself as young , glittering , energetic , full of romance and promise . ' A heroine of romance with a big belly , or lying in , is a strange image , ' wrote Bayle in his influential Histori- cal and Critical ...
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... young sparks , Jack and Algernon , for rechristening , which in their case is jokingly linked with a return to ... young adult . Jack's situation is thus , in the Freudian sense , overdetermined . He is simultaneously a child , a young ...
... young sparks , Jack and Algernon , for rechristening , which in their case is jokingly linked with a return to ... young adult . Jack's situation is thus , in the Freudian sense , overdetermined . He is simultaneously a child , a young ...
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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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