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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... reality arises so per- sistently in discussions of comedy , this chapter will be devoted to a consideration of that relationship . We shall examine the closeness or remoteness of the world of comedy , on the one hand to the everyday ...
... reality arises so per- sistently in discussions of comedy , this chapter will be devoted to a consideration of that relationship . We shall examine the closeness or remoteness of the world of comedy , on the one hand to the everyday ...
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... reality without necessarily reflecting it . And we have seen , from the examples so far considered , that fantasy is inclined to infiltrate even those comedies whose worlds are , in some respects , presented as if they might be real ...
... reality without necessarily reflecting it . And we have seen , from the examples so far considered , that fantasy is inclined to infiltrate even those comedies whose worlds are , in some respects , presented as if they might be real ...
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... reality . It has turned the world upside down . Meta- fictional techniques , which lend themselves to such ... reality is crucial to my work . ' What reality , though ? Pedro has only just come to Lima from Bolivia , but instead of ...
... reality . It has turned the world upside down . Meta- fictional techniques , which lend themselves to such ... reality is crucial to my work . ' What reality , though ? Pedro has only just come to Lima from Bolivia , but instead of ...
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Laughter | 1 |
Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
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