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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... characters tends to lapse towards the end of the novel or play . In The Towers of Trebizond the apparently ... characters , the first belongs to the type whom women are supposed to idolize and the second to the type who think women need ...
... characters tends to lapse towards the end of the novel or play . In The Towers of Trebizond the apparently ... characters , the first belongs to the type whom women are supposed to idolize and the second to the type who think women need ...
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... characters into caricatures , emphasizes the body at the expense of the spirit , and mocks altruism and morality . It deliberately dehumanizes its characters , or subordinates humans to objects . As the director of the farce - within ...
... characters into caricatures , emphasizes the body at the expense of the spirit , and mocks altruism and morality . It deliberately dehumanizes its characters , or subordinates humans to objects . As the director of the farce - within ...
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... characters is offset by the presence of other figures whose mar- riages have gone wrong , or look like doing so ... characters to be left unwed and for some marriages to be seen as heading for trouble . At the end of Pickwick Papers ...
... characters is offset by the presence of other figures whose mar- riages have gone wrong , or look like doing so ... characters to be left unwed and for some marriages to be seen as heading for trouble . At the end of Pickwick Papers ...
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Laughter | 1 |
Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
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