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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... effects in silent films were often achieved by shooting a sequence slowly and projecting it fast . The speeding up of an action creates a machine - like effect : the resulting emotional detachment enables the audience to take disasters ...
... effects in silent films were often achieved by shooting a sequence slowly and projecting it fast . The speeding up of an action creates a machine - like effect : the resulting emotional detachment enables the audience to take disasters ...
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... effect seem to have been temporarily suspended . How are we likely to feel about the effects of the boys ' deceits on the innocent Mr and Mrs Phelps ? Hazlitt , contemplating simi- lar trickeries in The Thousand and One Nights , appeals ...
... effect seem to have been temporarily suspended . How are we likely to feel about the effects of the boys ' deceits on the innocent Mr and Mrs Phelps ? Hazlitt , contemplating simi- lar trickeries in The Thousand and One Nights , appeals ...
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... effect here is a little like that of North- anger Abbey , where the lovably immature heroine has to learn not to confuse Gothic horror fiction with reality . ( It is indicative of the lure exerted by metafictional devices that Jane ...
... effect here is a little like that of North- anger Abbey , where the lovably immature heroine has to learn not to confuse Gothic horror fiction with reality . ( It is indicative of the lure exerted by metafictional devices that Jane ...
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Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
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