02821nam 2200577 a 450 991096113980332120251116222429.00-8386-4341-8(CKB)2560000000055480(OCoLC)712995672(CaPaEBR)ebrary10432108(SSID)ssj0000485099(PQKBManifestationID)12188560(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000485099(PQKBWorkID)10603756(PQKB)11390149(MiAaPQ)EBC3116017(Au-PeEL)EBL3116017(CaPaEBR)ebr10432108(OCoLC)607764743(BIP)36011719(BIP)12583190(EXLCZ)99256000000005548020050623d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe idea of comedy a critique /Jan Walsh Hokenson1st ed.Madison [N.J.] Fairleigh Dickinson University Pressc20061 online resource (287 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8386-4096-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-277) and index.Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Aims and Terms -- From Classical to Modern: The Arc from Ethical to Social Conceptions -- The Dominant Modernist Conception of Comedy: Premises and Elisions -- The Late Modernist Conception of Comedy: Premises and Elisions -- Twin Modernist Elisions -- The Interlude of Postmodernist Conceptions -- Comedy in Contemporary Thought -- Epilogue: The Contemporary Idea of Comedy -- Reference List.One of the few constants in Western critical though for over twomillennia has been the inexhaustible fascination with comedy: what itis and how it works. Yet comedy has eluded every definition. Why haveso many of the leading critics and philosophers of the West proposedtheories and counter-theories of comedy while often admitting that itenthralls and baffles the mind in equal measure? The Idea of Comedy: A Critique assembles a rich corpus of materials from differentlanguages and eras to construct a history of the commentaries andreflections, the theoretical postulates and conjectures, and the oftenacrimonious debates about comedy through the centuries from Platoand Aristotle to our contemporariesComic, The, in literatureComedyHistory and criticismComic, The, in literature.ComedyHistory and criticism.809/.917Hokenson Jan1863461MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910961139803321The idea of comedy4470109UNINA