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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... language ' , and latrina lingua , ' lavatory language ' . Though not all languages can boast a technical term for this type of humour it is , of course , widespread . An enjoyable modern instance occurs in the film Bedazzled , a comic ...
... language ' , and latrina lingua , ' lavatory language ' . Though not all languages can boast a technical term for this type of humour it is , of course , widespread . An enjoyable modern instance occurs in the film Bedazzled , a comic ...
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... language . Often , however , a comic treatment of language will point to philosophical paradoxes about the nature of language as such . In the British television series Fawlty Towers the hotel proprietor uses the word ' burro ' in a ...
... language . Often , however , a comic treatment of language will point to philosophical paradoxes about the nature of language as such . In the British television series Fawlty Towers the hotel proprietor uses the word ' burro ' in a ...
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... language . These fictional tongues differ somewhat from nonsense - language . If the advantage of nonsense is its offer of a rest from the pressure of meaning , the invented languages of Stoppard , Burgess , Bradbury , and Barth offer ...
... language . These fictional tongues differ somewhat from nonsense - language . If the advantage of nonsense is its offer of a rest from the pressure of meaning , the invented languages of Stoppard , Burgess , Bradbury , and Barth offer ...
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Laughter | 1 |
Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
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