English Comedy: Its Role and Nature from Chaucer to the Present DayChatto & Windus, 1975 - 288 Seiten |
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... cynical attitude , but not of his having a witty or parodic one . Admittedly , we do sometimes speak of an ' ironic attitude to life ' , but this is one of the places where common usage has to be rather arbitrarily tidied up for ...
... cynical attitude , but not of his having a witty or parodic one . Admittedly , we do sometimes speak of an ' ironic attitude to life ' , but this is one of the places where common usage has to be rather arbitrarily tidied up for ...
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... cynical attitude , for it enables us to accept what we emotionally dislike by taking both sides of the ironic statement as of equal value so that it cancels itself out . By cynicism we bring about an uneasy truce between the forces of ...
... cynical attitude , for it enables us to accept what we emotionally dislike by taking both sides of the ironic statement as of equal value so that it cancels itself out . By cynicism we bring about an uneasy truce between the forces of ...
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... cynicism is mature , moral , and ( if only for him ) integrative — a way of still seeing and surviving . In comedy that is not cynical as a whole , too , cynicism may play a valuable part by deflating sentimentality : to the angel face ...
... cynicism is mature , moral , and ( if only for him ) integrative — a way of still seeing and surviving . In comedy that is not cynical as a whole , too , cynicism may play a valuable part by deflating sentimentality : to the angel face ...
Inhalt
Acknowledgements page | 9 |
Origin and Nature of Comedy | 17 |
Critical Terminology | 28 |
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