Comedy in comparative literature : essays on Dante, Hoffmann, Nietzsche, Wharton, Borges, and Cabrera Infante /

A collection of essays that explore the very dynamics of comedy, jokes laughter and theorization from early writings of antiquity to contemporary modern day fiction and fits well into the genre of comparative literature and will pose many opportunities for further scholarship.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gallagher, David (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
Colección:Studies in comparative literature (Lewiston, N.Y.) ; v. 69.
Temas:
Comic, The, in literature.
Laughter in literature.
Comique dans la littérature.
Rire dans la littérature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Comic, The, in literature
Laughter in literature
Komik
Literatur
Komödie.
Komik.
Lachen.
Motiv.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The trumpets of Dante's Inferno / Kathleen Haley
  • Uncanny laughter: reworking Freud's theory of jokes with E.T.A. Hoffmann's 'The sandman' / Naomi Beeman
  • Signifying laughter: the comic style of Nietzsche's Die fröhliche Wissenschaft / Adrian Switzer
  • The laughter of gods and devils: Edith Wharton and the Coen Brothers on deception, disappointment, and cosmic irony / Svetlana Rukhelman
  • Jorge Luis Borges: aesthetic constructs and the humanism of play / Natalya Sukhonos
  • Recovering laughter: corporeal follies in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Tres tristes tigres / Kael Ashbaugh.

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