The Concept Of Comedy
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The Idea Of Comedy
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Author : Jan Hokenson
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 2006
The Idea Of Comedy written by Jan Hokenson 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 2006 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Disengaging unstated premises to show how the theoretical discourse about comedy often enacts the intellectual disputes of its time, The idea of comedy tracks the history of comic theories along two principal axes. The first is historical, showing how the Hellenistic ethical conception devolves into social superiority and then into populist assertions, enidng on the question of whether contemporary comic theory is still populist today." "The second axis is conceptual, sorting theories by types of agreement and dispute. Whether comedy improves the citizens or threatens political instability, whether it insults or enacts moral standards, whether it serves God and the integrated superego or the devil and the anarchic id, are some of the questions addressed by theroists such as Cicero, Maggi, Dryden, Kant, Schopenhauer, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan, and Genette." -book jacket.
The Concept Of Comedy
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Author : G. S. Amur
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
The Concept Of Comedy written by G. S. Amur and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with Comedy categories.
The Concept Of Comedy
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Author : G. S. Amur
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981-04-01
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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.
The Concept Of Comedy
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Author : Gururaja Shyamacharya Amur
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Concept Of Comedy written by Gururaja Shyamacharya Amur and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Comedy categories.
The Nature Of Comedy
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Author : Willard Mallalieu Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
The Nature Of Comedy written by Willard Mallalieu Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Comedy categories.
The Legacy Of The Wisecrack
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Author : Eddie Tafoya
language : en
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Release Date : 2009
The Legacy Of The Wisecrack written by Eddie Tafoya and has been published by Universal-Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Literary Criticism categories.
Despite the claim of many a Borscht Belt comic that he is a practitioner of "the world's second-oldest professsion," stand-up comedy is a young and distinctly American literary form. It was not until the last decades of the nineteenth century when, enabled by unprecedented prosperity and the right to free expression, that monologists began appearing in American vaudeville halls. Yet even though it has since become an entertainment industry mainstay, stand-up comedy has received precious little scholarly attention. The Legacy of the Wisecrack: Stand-up Comedy as the Great American Literary Form looks at the theory of stand-up comedy, its literary dimensions, and its distinctly American qualities as it provides a detailed history of the forces that shaped it. The study concludes with a look at the works of specific comedians such as Steven Wright, whose three decades of performances comprise a single picaresque tale, and Richard Pryor, whose 1982 masterpiece Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip serves as modern America's answer to Dante Aligheri's epic poem, Inferno. The result is one of the first serious treatments of stand-up comedy as a literary form.
In Praise Of Comedy
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Author : James Kern Feibleman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
In Praise Of Comedy written by James Kern Feibleman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Performing Arts categories.
Laughter
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Author : Henri Bergson
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2005-09-13
Laughter written by Henri Bergson and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-09-13 with Philosophy categories.
."..Originally published in 1911 by the Macmillan Company, New York."--T. p. verso.
A Concept Of Dramatic Genre And The Comedy Of A New Type
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Author : V. Ulea
language : en
Publisher: SIU Press
Release Date : 2002
A Concept Of Dramatic Genre And The Comedy Of A New Type written by V. Ulea and has been published by SIU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Applying systems theory to the comedies of Chekhov, Balzac, Kleist, Moliere, and Shakespeare, A Concept of Dramatic Genre and the Comedy of a New Type: Chess, Literature, and Film approaches dramatic genre from the point of view of the degree of richness and strength of a character’s potential. Its main focus is to establish a methodology for analyzing the potential from multidimensional perspectives, using systems thinking. The whole concept is an alternative to the Aristotelian plot-based approach and is applied to an analysis of western and eastern European authors as well as contemporary American film. This innovative study consists of three parts: The first part is mostly theoretical, proposing a new definition of the dramatic as a category linked to general systems phenomena and offering a new classification of dramatic genre. In the second part, Ulea offers a textual analysis of some works based on this new classification. She analyzes comedies, tragedies, and dramas on the same or similar topics in order to reveal what makes them belong to opposite types of dramatic genre. Additionally, she considers the question of fate and chance, with regard to tragedy and comedy, from the point of view of the predispositioning theory. In the third part, Ulea explores an analysis of the comedy of a new type—CNT. Her emphasis is on the integration of the part and the whole in approaching the protagonist’s potential. She introduces the term quasi-strong potential in order to reveal the illusory strength of protagonists of the CNT and to show the technique of CNT’s analysis and synthesis. Ulea’s research begins with the notion of the comic, traditionally considered synonymous with the laughable, and attempts to approach it as independent from the laughable and laughter. The necessity to do so is dictated by the desire to penetrate the enigmatic nature of Chekhov’s comedy. The result is A Concept of Dramatic Genre and the Comedy of a New Type: Chess, Literature, and Film, a completely new approach to potential and systems thinking—which has never been a focus of dramatic theory before. Such potential is the touchstone of the comic and comedy, their permanent basic characteristic, the heart and axis around which the comedic world spins.