Laughter On The Fringes
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Laughter On The Fringes
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Author : Anna Peterson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2019-02-01
Laughter On The Fringes written by Anna Peterson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-01 with History categories.
This book examines the impact that Athenian Old Comedy had on Greek writers of the imperial era. It is generally acknowledged that imperial-era Greeks responded to Athenian Old Comedy in one of two ways: either as a treasure trove of Atticisms or as a genre defined by and repudiated for its aggressive humor. Worthy of further consideration, however, is the degree to which both approaches, and particularly the latter one that relegated Old Comedy to the fringes of the literary canon, led authors to engage with the ironic and self-reflexive humor of Aristophanes, Eupolis and Cratinus. Authors ranging from serious moralizers (Plutarch and Aelius Aristides) to comic writers in their own right (Lucian, Alciphron) to other figures not often associated with Old Comedy (Libanius) adopted aspects of the genre to negotiate power struggles, facilitate literary and sophistic rivalries, and as a model for autobiographical writing. To varying degrees, these writers wove recognizable features of the genre (e.g. the parabasis, its agonistic language, the stage biographies of the individual poets) into their writings. The image of Old Comedy that emerges from this time is that of a genre in transition. It was, on the one hand, with the exception of Aristophanes' extant plays, on the verge of being almost completely lost; on the other hand, its reputation and several of its most characteristic elements were being renegotiated and reinvented.
Laughter
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Author : Henri Bergson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1913
Laughter written by Henri Bergson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1913 with Comedy categories.
Cheeky Fictions
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Author : Susanne Reichl
language : en
Publisher: Rodopi
Release Date : 2005
Cheeky Fictions written by Susanne Reichl and has been published by Rodopi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Humor categories.
Examining postcolonial transcultural practice from a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives, this study seeks to analyse laughter and the postcolonial in their complexity. It gathers a group of international specialists in postcolonial transcultural studies to analyse the functions of humour in a wide range of cultural texts.
Laughter
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Author : Henri Bergson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1937
Laughter written by Henri Bergson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1937 with Comedy categories.
Talking About Laughter
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Author : Alan H. Sommerstein
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2009-03-05
Talking About Laughter written by Alan H. Sommerstein and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-05 with Drama categories.
This book brings together fourteen studies by Alan Sommerstein on Aristophanes and his fellow comic dramatists, some of which have not previously appeared in print. The studies cover almost all the major topics of Sommerstein's work - the nature and functions of comedy in Aristophanes' time, its connections with the society and politics of its day, the question of Aristophanes' own political stances, the light comedy can throw on classical Athenians' perception of basic social divisions (age, gender, citizen/alien, free/slave), comedy's exploitation of the expressive resources of the Greek language, the composition and production history of individual plays, and the history of the genre as a whole.
An Edge To The Laughter
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Author : Jay Gilbert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
An Edge To The Laughter written by Jay Gilbert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with categories.
Laughter
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Author : Henri Bergson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1924
Laughter written by Henri Bergson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1924 with categories.
The Senses Of Humor
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Author : Daniel Wickberg
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2015-06-18
The Senses Of Humor written by Daniel Wickberg and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-18 with History categories.
Why do modern Americans believe in something called a sense of humor, and how did they come to that belief? Daniel Wickberg traces the relatively short cultural history of the concept to its British origins as a way to explore new conceptions of the self and social order in modern America. More than simply the history of an idea, Wickberg's study provides new insights into a peculiarly modern cultural sensibility. The expression "sense of humor" was first coined in the 1840s, and the idea that such a sense was a personality trait to be valued developed only in the 1870s. What is the relationship between medieval humoral medicine and this distinctively modern idea of the sense of humor? What has it meant in the past 125 years to declare that someone lacks a sense of humor? Why do modern Americans say it is a good thing not to take oneself seriously? How is the joke, as a twentieth-century quasi-literary form, different from the traditional folktale? Wickberg addresses these questions among others and in the process uses the history of ideas to throw new light on the way contemporary Americans think and speak about humor and laughter. The context of Wickberg's analysis is Anglo-American; the specifically British meanings of humor and laughter from the sixteenth century forward provide the framework for understanding American cultural values in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The genealogy of the sense of humor is, like the study of keywords, an avenue into a significant aspect of the cultural history of modernity. Drawing on a wide range of sources and disciplinary perspectives, Wickberg's analysis challenges many of the prevailing views of modern American culture and suggests a new model for cultural historians.
In Pursuit Of Laughter
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Author : Agnes Repplier
language : en
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin
Release Date : 1936
In Pursuit Of Laughter written by Agnes Repplier and has been published by Boston : Houghton Mifflin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1936 with Comic, The categories.
Carlotta S Intended
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Author : Ruth McEnery Stuart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Carlotta S Intended written by Ruth McEnery Stuart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with American fiction categories.