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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... suggests that com- edy effects a reversal of the Oedipal pattern so common in trag- edy . In tragedy it is the son ... suggest that com- edy is simply tragedy speeded up . In support of his point we may cite Walter Kerr , who records ...
... suggests that com- edy effects a reversal of the Oedipal pattern so common in trag- edy . In tragedy it is the son ... suggest that com- edy is simply tragedy speeded up . In support of his point we may cite Walter Kerr , who records ...
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... suggests godhead : the idea of the writer or director as the last quasi - divine figure in an otherwise godless universe pervades modern writing . Sandy , the film direc- tor in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories , longs to convince him ...
... suggests godhead : the idea of the writer or director as the last quasi - divine figure in an otherwise godless universe pervades modern writing . Sandy , the film direc- tor in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories , longs to convince him ...
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... suggesting : ' If a man falls or hurts himself so slightly that it moves not [ compassion ] , we laugh , and here our pity and ... suggests , to play for laughs . Lamb seems here to be implying , as Bergson was 182 Laughter or Harmony ?
... suggesting : ' If a man falls or hurts himself so slightly that it moves not [ compassion ] , we laugh , and here our pity and ... suggests , to play for laughs . Lamb seems here to be implying , as Bergson was 182 Laughter or Harmony ?
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Laughter | 1 |
Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
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