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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... ideas sleep furiously ' uses normal sentence structure , and thereby challenges us to tease out a coherent message . Though formu- lated to illustrate a serious linguistic theory , it is incidentally amusing by virtue of the incongruity ...
... ideas sleep furiously ' uses normal sentence structure , and thereby challenges us to tease out a coherent message . Though formu- lated to illustrate a serious linguistic theory , it is incidentally amusing by virtue of the incongruity ...
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... ideas in their heads . . . Mental games played with even the trashiest ideas had led to many of the most significant scientific insights . ' But the narrator's comment is discouraging : Those old - time big brains . . . would tell their ...
... ideas in their heads . . . Mental games played with even the trashiest ideas had led to many of the most significant scientific insights . ' But the narrator's comment is discouraging : Those old - time big brains . . . would tell their ...
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... idea of comedy and carnival as bringing ' actual liberation ' . Indeed , where Kundera sees laughter and carnival being appropriated by total- itarian governments for their own purposes , Eco sees it being exploited in the interests of ...
... idea of comedy and carnival as bringing ' actual liberation ' . Indeed , where Kundera sees laughter and carnival being appropriated by total- itarian governments for their own purposes , Eco sees it being exploited in the interests of ...
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Laughter | 1 |
Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
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