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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hokenson, Jan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, ©2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.