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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... social pressures are at a minimum : finally , when the redemptive magic of the natural world has taken effect , the characters return to the social world with new hope . There is a weird parallel to this typically comic cycle in King ...
... social pressures are at a minimum : finally , when the redemptive magic of the natural world has taken effect , the characters return to the social world with new hope . There is a weird parallel to this typically comic cycle in King ...
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... social living . Among the favourite sources of humour in this type of comedy is the perception that the average person would rather tell others what they want to hear than give voice to his real thoughts : the logical extension of this ...
... social living . Among the favourite sources of humour in this type of comedy is the perception that the average person would rather tell others what they want to hear than give voice to his real thoughts : the logical extension of this ...
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... social game . Célimène is only taking to an extreme an activity in which all social beings must indulge . And it is an essentially playful , adaptive , laughter - loving activity . In mannered comedy society , though satirized , is ...
... social game . Célimène is only taking to an extreme an activity in which all social beings must indulge . And it is an essentially playful , adaptive , laughter - loving activity . In mannered comedy society , though satirized , is ...
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Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
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