LEADER 02821nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910961139803321 005 20251116222429.0 010 $a0-8386-4341-8 035 $a(CKB)2560000000055480 035 $a(OCoLC)712995672 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10432108 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000485099 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12188560 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000485099 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10603756 035 $a(PQKB)11390149 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3116017 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3116017 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10432108 035 $a(OCoLC)607764743 035 $a(BIP)36011719 035 $a(BIP)12583190 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000055480 100 $a20050623d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe idea of comedy $ea critique /$fJan Walsh Hokenson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMadison [N.J.] $cFairleigh Dickinson University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (287 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a0-8386-4096-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 267-277) and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $aOne 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 contemporaries 606 $aComic, The, in literature 606 $aComedy$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aComic, The, in literature. 615 0$aComedy$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809/.917 700 $aHokenson$b Jan$01863461 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910961139803321 996 $aThe idea of comedy$94470109 997 $aUNINA