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Comedy
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Author : Henri Bergson
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date : 2013-05-22
Comedy written by Henri Bergson and has been published by Doubleday this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Henri Bergson — Laughter George Meredith — An Essay on Comedy Introduction & Appendix on The Meanings of Comedy by Wylie Sypher Laughter is a mystery—a mystery which defines man. Brought together in this volume are two classic studies of the nature of laughter and comedy. The great French philosopher Henri Bergson develops, in "Laughter," a profound psychological and philisophic theory of the main springs of comedy—a theory closely related to the doctrine of the élan vital. In his "Essay on Comedy," the English novelist George Meredith discusses the varieties of the comic experience and the social and moral function of comedy. Together these two major theories go far toward clarifying the mystery of laughter. Wylie Sypher, in his richly documented supplementary essay, places the views of Bergson and Meredith in a large context of speculation on the nature of comedy. The essay reviews important statements of such thinkers as Aristotle, Hobbes, Baudelaire, Freud, Cornford, and others. It serves to give further significance to Bergson and Meredith and to the meaning of comedy itself.
Madness Masks And Laughter
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Author : Rupert D. V. Glasgow
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 1995
Madness Masks And Laughter written by Rupert D. V. Glasgow and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Performing Arts categories.
"Madness, Masks, and Laughter: An Essay on Comedy is an exploration of narrative and dramatic comedy as a laughter-inducing phenomenon. The theatrical metaphors of mask, appearance, and illusion are used as structural linchpins in an attempt to categorize the many and extremely varied manifestations of comedy and to find out what they may have in common with one another. As this reliance on metaphor suggests, the purpose is less to produce The Truth about comedy than to look at how it is related to our understanding of the world and to ways of understanding our understanding. Previous theories of comedy or laughter (such as those advanced by Hobbes, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Bergson, Freud, and Bakhtin) as well as more general philosophical considerations are discussed insofar as they shed light on this approach. The limitations of the metaphors themselves mean that sight is never lost of the deep-seated ambiguity that has made laughter so notoriously difficult to pin down in the past." "The first half of the volume focuses in particular on traditional comic masks and the pleasures of repetition and recognition, on the comedy of imposture, disguise, and deception, on dramatic and verbal irony, on social and theatrical role-playing and the comic possibilities of plays-within-plays and "metatheatre," as well as on the cliches, puns, witticisms, and torrents of gibberish which betray that language itself may be understood as a sort of mask. The second half of the book moves to the other side of the footlights to show how the spectators themselves, identifying with the comic spectacle, may be induced to "drop" their own roles and postures, laughter here operating as something akin to a ventilatory release from the pressures of social or cognitive performance. Here the essay examines the subversive madness inherent in comedy, its displaced anti-authoritarianism, as well as the violence, sexuality, and bodily grotesqueness it may bring to light. The structural tensions in this broadly Hobbesian or Freudian model of a social mask concealing an anti-social self are reflected in comedy's own ambivalences, and emerge especially in the ambiguous concepts of madness and folly, which may be either celebrated as festive fun or derided as sinfulness. The study concludes by considering the ways in which nonsense and the grotesque may infringe our cognitive limitations, here extending the distinction between appearance and reality to a metaphysical level which is nonetheless prey to unresolvable ambiguities." "The scope of the comic material ranges over time from Aristophanes to Martin Amis, from Boccaccio, Chaucer, Rabelais, and Shakespeare to Oscar Wilde, Joe Orton, John Barth, and Philip Roth. Alongside mainly Old Greek, Italian, French, Irish, English, and American examples, a number of relatively little-known German plays (by Grabbe, Tieck, Buchner, and others) are also taken into consideration."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Comedy
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Author : Wylie Sypher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980
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An Essay On Comedy And The Uses Of The Comic Spirit
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Author : George Meredith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
An Essay On Comedy And The Uses Of The Comic Spirit written by George Meredith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1897 with Comedy categories.
An Essay On Comedy And The Uses Of The Comic Spirit
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Author : George Meredith
language : en
Publisher: Litres
Release Date : 2018-12-02
An Essay On Comedy And The Uses Of The Comic Spirit written by George Meredith and has been published by Litres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-02 with Drama categories.
Laughter
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Author : Henri Bergson
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-11-19
Laughter written by Henri Bergson and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-19 with Philosophy categories.
"Laughter" is a collection of three essays by French philosopher Henri Bergson. It was first published in 1900. This is a rare book in which the concept of laughter is approached philosophically. Besides laughter, Bergson also approaches the phenomenon of comics as an origin of laughter.
An Essay On Comedy
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Author : George Meredith
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-06-15
An Essay On Comedy written by George Meredith and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-15 with Literary Collections categories.
Excerpt from An Essay on Comedy: And the Uses of the Comic Spirit A society of cultivated men and women is required, wherein ideas are current and the perceptions quick, that he may be supplied with matter and an audience. The semi-barbarism or merely giddy communities, and feverish emotional periods, repel him; and also a state of marked social inequality of the sexes; nor can he whose business is to address the mind be understood where there is not a moderate degree of intellectual activity. Moreover, to touch and kindle the mind through laughter, demands more than sprightliness, a most subtle delicacy. That must be a natal gift in the Comic poet. The substance he deals with will show him a startling exhibition of the dyer's hand, if he is without it. People are ready to surrender themselves to witty thumps on the back, breast, and sides; all except the head: and it is there that he aims. He must be subtle to penetrate. A corresponding acuteness must exist to welcome him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
An Essay On Comedy
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Author : B. WALWYN
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1782
An Essay On Comedy written by B. WALWYN and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1782 with categories.
An Essays On Comedy
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Author : George Meredith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1918
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An Essay On Comedy And The Uses Of The Comic Spirit
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Author : George Meredith
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2022-10-19
An Essay On Comedy And The Uses Of The Comic Spirit written by George Meredith and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-19 with Fiction categories.
Reproduction of the original.