The comic mode in English literature [[electronic resource] ] : from the Middle Ages to today / / Murray Roston

• Autore: Roston Murray
• Pubblicazione: London, : Continuum, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Soggetto topico: English literature - History and criticism; Comedy - History and criticism
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 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
• Titolo autorizzato: The comic mode in English literature
• ISBN: 1-283-32203-X; 9786613322036; 1-4411-3248-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781972103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II