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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... theory , articulated in the nineteenth century by Schopenhauer . It is not absolutely incom- patible with the superiority theory : indeed , the relation between all three main theories is best described as one of overlap rather than ...
... theory , articulated in the nineteenth century by Schopenhauer . It is not absolutely incom- patible with the superiority theory : indeed , the relation between all three main theories is best described as one of overlap rather than ...
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... theories of laughter and comedy ? Aren't they both essentially freewheeling , multifarious , resistant to theory ? For the Shakespearian critic L. C. Knights , ' The greatness of any comedy can only be determined by the inclusiveness ...
... theories of laughter and comedy ? Aren't they both essentially freewheeling , multifarious , resistant to theory ? For the Shakespearian critic L. C. Knights , ' The greatness of any comedy can only be determined by the inclusiveness ...
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... theory has actually influenced comic practice . The passage just quoted from Giles Goat - Boy is transparently a comment on Hobbes : philosophy is here incorpo- rated into comic fiction . Take another example . The critic Georg Lukács ...
... theory has actually influenced comic practice . The passage just quoted from Giles Goat - Boy is transparently a comment on Hobbes : philosophy is here incorpo- rated into comic fiction . Take another example . The critic Georg Lukács ...
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Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
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