The idea of comedy : a critique / / Jan Walsh Hokenson

• Autore: Hokenson Jan
• Pubblicazione: Madison [N.J.], : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2006
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Disciplina: 809/.917
• Soggetto topico: Comic, The, in literature; Comedy - History and criticism
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-277) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 contemporaries
• Titolo autorizzato: The idea of comedy
• ISBN: 0-8386-4341-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910961139803321
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