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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... keep passing theirs around , he keeps finding more coins on his plate : as he swallows more and more he begins to give off metallic sounds like a till or a slot - machine . Here , though the victim has little malice or suspicion in his ...
... keep passing theirs around , he keeps finding more coins on his plate : as he swallows more and more he begins to give off metallic sounds like a till or a slot - machine . Here , though the victim has little malice or suspicion in his ...
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... keeps his money . Edgeworth then picks the pocket or cuts the purse , and hands the loot to Night- ingale while ... keep- ing his hand on the fresh hoard which he has sent for from home . But the position of his hand simply calls ...
... keeps his money . Edgeworth then picks the pocket or cuts the purse , and hands the loot to Night- ingale while ... keep- ing his hand on the fresh hoard which he has sent for from home . But the position of his hand simply calls ...
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... keeps his grumble to him- self . The joke here is the clash between two sets of rules , each of which conflicts ... keep getting stopped up and then unstopped by some mysterious agency , the old cou- ple begin to feel that they are ...
... keeps his grumble to him- self . The joke here is the clash between two sets of rules , each of which conflicts ... keep getting stopped up and then unstopped by some mysterious agency , the old cou- ple begin to feel that they are ...
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Laughter | 1 |
Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
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