1.

Record Nr.

UNISA990005508710203316

Autore

ITO, Kiyosi

Titolo

Diffusion processes and their sample paths / Kiyosilto Ito, Henry P. Mckean, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer, 1996

Edizione

[2nd. reprint of the 1974 edition]

Descrizione fisica

XIV, 321 p. ; 23 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

MCKEAN, Henry P. : Jr.

Disciplina

519.233

Soggetti

Processi di diffusione

Collocazione

500 519.233 ITO

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910970510503321

Autore

Calder Andrew <1942->

Titolo

Moliere : the theory and practice of comedy / / Andrew Calder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Atlantic Highlands, : Athlone Press, 1993

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

842/.4

Soggetti

French drama - 17th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc

French drama (Comedy) - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-233) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; CHAPTER ONE: Character; CHAPTER TWO: Plot and Action I: The Plots of New Comedy; CHAPTER THREE: Plot and Action II: Comic Fate; CHAPTER FOUR: Comedy and the Ridiculous; CHAPTER FIVE: Reason and the Ridiculous; CHAPTER SIX: Body and Soul: A Physiology of Laughter; CHAPTER SEVEN: Honnêteté; CHAPTER EIGHT: Judgement; CHAPTER NINE: Sociability, Reason and Laughter; CHAPTER TEN: Families; CHAPTER ELEVEN: Aristotelian Pedants; CHAPTER TWELVE: Medicine; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Preciosity; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Le Tartuffe; CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Dom Juan and 'the hidden God'

CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Molière's PhilosophyChronology; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The history of ideas provides an important means of understanding and reinterpreting the literature of the past; and in this study Dr. Calder demonstrates the illumination that this informed approach brings to the comedies of MoliFre. In the course of this study, the author outlines a fresh theory of classical comedy which applies to the works of other French writers of the 17th century; and the historical reinterpretations of MoliFre's two most difficult plays -- Le Tartuffe and Dom Juan -- break entirely new ground.Although this is a work which specialists will admire, it is also intended to