The idea of comedy : history, theory, critique /
One of the few constants in Western critical though for over two millennia has been the inexhaustible fascination with comedy: what it is and how it works. Yet comedy has eluded every definition. Why have so many of the leading critics and philosophers of the West proposed theories and counter-theor...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison [N.J.] :
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
©2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- From classical to modern: the arc from ethical to social conceptions. The classical attitude
- The Renaissance attitude and after
- Early modernist theory
- Theory and resistance
- The dominant modernist conception of comedy: premises and elisions
- Modernist residua of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- The dominant satiric, neo-Aristotelian view
- The legacy of the dominant through 2000
- The late modernist conception of comedy: premises and elisions. The emergent populist theory
- The comic hero and modernist legacies
- Twin modernist elisions. The slippage between neo-Aristotelian and populist views
- Elision in theory: the medieval fool tradition
- Fooling theory
- The interlude of postmodernist conceptions. Late century overview
- The Ludic terrain of postmodern theory
- Comedy in contemporary thought. The butts of subjectivity
- The butts of reason
- The return of systems and aesthetics
- Epilogue: the contemporary idea of comedy. The contemporary retrospective
- The idea of comedy
- Comedy as an idea.