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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... ridiculous than the pathetic devil figure Trouscaillon . Trouscaillon pays for Zazie's French fries , her Coca Colas , and even her blue jeans , but fails to seduce her ; nor can he defeat or capture Gabriel , even when backed by a ...
... ridiculous than the pathetic devil figure Trouscaillon . Trouscaillon pays for Zazie's French fries , her Coca Colas , and even her blue jeans , but fails to seduce her ; nor can he defeat or capture Gabriel , even when backed by a ...
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... ridiculous by comparison . A rather different case is Shaw's Pygmalion , which dwells on the disadvantages suffered in English society by those who do not speak in the accepted upper - class register . One of the jokes here concerns the ...
... ridiculous by comparison . A rather different case is Shaw's Pygmalion , which dwells on the disadvantages suffered in English society by those who do not speak in the accepted upper - class register . One of the jokes here concerns the ...
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... ridiculous , undignified death . Once again we must ask how such fables can be called comic . Incongruity , which we have already used to account for the ele- ment of humour and comedy in some absurdist and existen- tialist fictions ...
... ridiculous , undignified death . Once again we must ask how such fables can be called comic . Incongruity , which we have already used to account for the ele- ment of humour and comedy in some absurdist and existen- tialist fictions ...
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Laughter | 1 |
Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
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