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Autore |
Roston Murray |
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The comic mode in English literature [[electronic resource] ] : from the Middle Ages to today / / Murray Roston |
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London, : Continuum, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-32203-X |
9786613322036 |
1-4411-3248-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (287 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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English literature - History and criticism |
Comedy - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 close-readings of a wide range of major texts, authors and genres from the |
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Medieval period to the present. The Comic Mode in English Literature examines such texts as: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's DreamPope's The Rape of the LockAusten's Emma |
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