English Comedy: Its Role and Nature from Chaucer to the Present DayChatto & Windus, 1975 - 288 Seiten |
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... writers relish the absurd at the same time as they expose it , have a good deal of charity for the failings of human nature and appreciate the need for variety in the world . Thus , though they place what is laughable by some implicit ...
... writers relish the absurd at the same time as they expose it , have a good deal of charity for the failings of human nature and appreciate the need for variety in the world . Thus , though they place what is laughable by some implicit ...
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... writers to be cooler , somewhat more philosophical , keeping a greater comic distance - perhaps because Americans ... writer , like Marx and the other reformers noted by Mumford - tacitly accepts something of the utilitarianism that has ...
... writers to be cooler , somewhat more philosophical , keeping a greater comic distance - perhaps because Americans ... writer , like Marx and the other reformers noted by Mumford - tacitly accepts something of the utilitarianism that has ...
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... writer may well not be very optimistic about the prospect of transforming the values of the ant - heap from within , and ... writers may very properly differ in different works ... Wells , for instance , clearly thought of himself as a ...
... writer may well not be very optimistic about the prospect of transforming the values of the ant - heap from within , and ... writers may very properly differ in different works ... Wells , for instance , clearly thought of himself as a ...
Inhalt
Acknowledgements page | 9 |
Origin and Nature of Comedy | 17 |
Critical Terminology | 28 |
Urheberrecht | |
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absurd action attack attitude Augustan better bourgeois bourgeoisie brave new world Butler celebratory century Chap characteristic characters Chaucer civilisation comic satire concerned Congreve conserving Country Wife Courtly Love critical cynical divertisement Dorimant drama dramatists dream Dryden effect element English Erewhon Essay ESTRAGON Etherege example fact farce feelings folly funny give human nature humorous ideal ideas implied innovatory integration irony James Joyce Jane Austen Jonson Joyce laughter less literary literature London M. C. Bradbrook marriage medieval mode modern mood moral never novel parody Peacock perhaps period play plot poem Pope psychological Puritans reason Reformation releasing Restoration comedy romantic satire satirise seems sense Sense and Sensibility sensibility sentimental Shakespeare Shamela Shaw Shelley social society sort structure style symbolic Tale tend texture theme things thou tone tragedy Twelfth Night values verse virtue Volpone whole witty writers
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