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Discovering the Comic /
Arguing that the comic is a quality of literary works of art in other forms as well as comedy, George McFadden finds its essence in the maintenance of some literary feature--a situation, a character--as itself despite threats to alter it. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library us...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1982]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- Introduction
- 1. The Comic as a Literary Quality
- 2. Description of the Comic as a General Feature in Literature
- 3. Comic Ethos: The Classical View
- 4. The Romantic Theory of the Comic
- 5. The Modern Comic Ethos: Bergson's Laughter
- 6. Modern Comic Ethos Continued: Freud
- 7. Twentieth-Century Theorists: Mauron, Cornford, Frye
- 8. Nietzschean Values in Comic Writing
- 9. After Barthes: Death of the Comic?
- 10. Conclusions and Continuing Issues
- Selected Bibliography
- Index of Names and Titles
- Subject Index.