The comic mode in English literature : from the Middle Ages to today /

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From Chaucer''s The Canterbury Tales to Helen Fielding''s Bridget Jones''s Diary, this is a comprehensive guide to comedy in the English literary canon. Beginning with a critical exploration of historical and philosophical theories of humour, the book then supplies clos...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roston, Murray
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011.
Temas:
English literature > History and criticism.
Comedy > History and criticism.
Littérature anglaise > Histoire et critique.
Comédie > Histoire et critique.
Literary theory.
Philosophy: aesthetics.
Literary studies: general.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Comedy.
English literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; Late Medieval; a) The Second Shepherds' Play; b) Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; c) Medwall, Fulgens and Lucrece; The Renaissance; a) Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream; b) Falstaff; c) Donne, The Flea; d) Marvell, The Garden; The Restoration and Eighteenth Century; a) Restoration Comedy; b) Pope, The Rape of the Lock; c) The Vogue of Sentiment; d) Sterne, Tristram Shandy; The Nineteenth Century; a) Austen, Emma; b) Dickens, The Pickwick Papers; c) Poking Fun at the Establishment; d) Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest; e) Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat.
  • The Twentieth Centurya) George Bernard Shaw; b) Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm; c) Beckett, Waiting for Godot; d) Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim; e) Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man; f) Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary; Notes; Works Cited
  • on the Comic ; Works Cited
  • General; Index.

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