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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... goes , the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing , the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten . ' Contempt for this vegetable existence is characteristic of comedy in general . Rosalind in As You Like It ...
... goes , the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing , the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten . ' Contempt for this vegetable existence is characteristic of comedy in general . Rosalind in As You Like It ...
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... goes out a wisiting . ' When Pickwick goes to prison his protectors fear that his innocence will make him vulnerable : the other prisoners will ' eat him alive ' . But somehow Pickwick always pulls through . Sam , for his part , is ...
... goes out a wisiting . ' When Pickwick goes to prison his protectors fear that his innocence will make him vulnerable : the other prisoners will ' eat him alive ' . But somehow Pickwick always pulls through . Sam , for his part , is ...
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... goes on . The case of Švejk is slightly different . Early in the book , when war has just been declared , Švejk has himself pushed down the street in a wheelchair , shouting patriotic slogans as he goes : in this instance even the ...
... goes on . The case of Švejk is slightly different . Early in the book , when war has just been declared , Švejk has himself pushed down the street in a wheelchair , shouting patriotic slogans as he goes : in this instance even the ...
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Comedy and Related Forms | 19 |
Marriage | 41 |
Procreation | 58 |
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