The Self-Conscious Stage in Modern French Drama / / David I. Grossvogel.
Studies the implications of laughter of the French Dramatic stage from the ridiculous to the absurd and the pain of laughter.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1958] ©1958 |
| Year of Publication: | 1958 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Some Implications of Laughter
- I. Intellectual Self-Consciousness: From the Ridiculous to the Great Absurd
- 1. Les Enfants Terribles: Jarry, Apollinaire, Cocteau
- 2. Perils of Debate: Giraudoux
- 3. Further Perils of Debate: Claudel, Sartre
- 4. Commercialism Reconsidered: Anouilh
- II. The Pain of Laughter
- 5. The Belgian Current
- 6. Crommelynck
- 7. Ghelderode
- III. Tomorrow ?
- 8. Ionesco, Adamov, Beckett
- Bibliography
- Index