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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... close friend or relative is pleas- ingly vague , its extinction of small concern . The cartoon charac- ter Barry Mackenzie , an Australian expatriate living in London , is disturbed to receive an overseas telegram : has something hap ...
... close friend or relative is pleas- ingly vague , its extinction of small concern . The cartoon charac- ter Barry Mackenzie , an Australian expatriate living in London , is disturbed to receive an overseas telegram : has something hap ...
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... close to death . ' Playing at human sacrifice ' seems an apt phrase here . Part of the excitement is in the terror : we are never quite sure that the barrier will not crumble , that the condition of Dupers and Duped 107.
... close to death . ' Playing at human sacrifice ' seems an apt phrase here . Part of the excitement is in the terror : we are never quite sure that the barrier will not crumble , that the condition of Dupers and Duped 107.
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... close . Thus it is that philosophers and critics from Plato to Sartre and Eco have found reasons for distrusting comedy , festivity , and laughter , whether on account of their psychological effects on actors and audiences or because of ...
... close . Thus it is that philosophers and critics from Plato to Sartre and Eco have found reasons for distrusting comedy , festivity , and laughter , whether on account of their psychological effects on actors and audiences or because of ...
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Laughter | 1 |
Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
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