Discovering the Comic / / George McFadden.
Arguing that the comic is a quality of literary works of art in other forms as well as comedy, George McFadden finds its essence in the maintenance of some literary feature--a situation, a character--as itself despite threats to alter it.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1982 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- Introduction
- 1. The Comic as a Literary Quality
- 2. Description of the Comic as a General Feature in Literature
- 3. Comic Ethos: The Classical View
- 4. The Romantic Theory of the Comic
- 5. The Modern Comic Ethos: Bergson's Laughter
- 6. Modern Comic Ethos Continued: Freud
- 7. Twentieth-Century Theorists: Mauron, Cornford, Frye
- 8. Nietzschean Values in Comic Writing
- 9. After Barthes: Death of the Comic?
- 10. Conclusions and Continuing Issues
- Selected Bibliography
- Index of Names and Titles
- Subject Index