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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... chapter will be devoted to a discussion of laughter : my second chapter will attempt a mapping of the terri- tory of comedy in relation to some neighbouring modes and genres . To make this separation in the early stages is necessarily ...
... chapter will be devoted to a discussion of laughter : my second chapter will attempt a mapping of the terri- tory of comedy in relation to some neighbouring modes and genres . To make this separation in the early stages is necessarily ...
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... chapters con- sider the more radically theoretical question of the relation of festivity , play , and scapegoating to comedy . The chapter which immediately follows this introduction aims to place comedy in relation to some neighbouring ...
... chapters con- sider the more radically theoretical question of the relation of festivity , play , and scapegoating to comedy . The chapter which immediately follows this introduction aims to place comedy in relation to some neighbouring ...
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... chapter we defined comedy as consisting of two conflicting elements , one being laughter ( often mocking , deri- sive , or discordant ) , and the other being the movement of a story towards an ending characterized by harmony , festivity ...
... chapter we defined comedy as consisting of two conflicting elements , one being laughter ( often mocking , deri- sive , or discordant ) , and the other being the movement of a story towards an ending characterized by harmony , festivity ...
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Laughter | 1 |
Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
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