The Idea 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 Idea Of Comedy Essays In Prose And Verse
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Author : William Kurtz Wimsatt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Idea Of Comedy Essays In Prose And Verse written by William Kurtz Wimsatt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Idea Of Comedy
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Author : William Kurtz Wimsatt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Idea Of Comedy written by William Kurtz Wimsatt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with English drama (Comedy) categories.
An Essay On The Idea Of Comedy And The Uses Of The Comic Spirit A Critical Edition
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Author : George Meredith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
An Essay On The Idea Of Comedy And The Uses Of The Comic Spirit A Critical Edition 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 2021 with Literary Criticism categories.
On The Idea Of Comedy And Of The Uses Of The Comic Spirit
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Author : George Meredith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
On The Idea Of Comedy And Of 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 1898 with categories.
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 : 2023-06-16
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 2023-06-16 with Fiction categories.
" Good Comedies are such rare productions, that notwithstanding the wealth of our literature in the Comic element, it would not occupy us long to run over the English list. If they are brought to the test I shall propose, very reputable Comedies will be found unworthy of their station, like the ladies of Arthur’s Court when they were reduced to the ordeal of the mantle. There are plain reasons why the Comic poet is not a frequent apparition; and why the great Comic poet remains without a fellow. 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 of 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. The necessity for the two conditions will explain how it is that we count him during centuries in the singular number."
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.
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.
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 : 2023-08-28
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 2023-08-28 with Fiction categories.
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Comedy
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Author : L. J. POTTS
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-04-27
Comedy written by L. J. POTTS and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-27 with Comedy categories.
Originally published in 1949 this book is a study of comedy based on representative works of drama and narrative, mainly in English, from Chaucer to Bernard Shaw. The theme is that comedy implies a philosophy of life that is fairly constant, despite the changes in social conditions and fashions of thought. There is a bibliographical index and the book is illustrated fully and widely by quotations from English comic writers.