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Book Title
Comedy: An Essay on Comedy/Laughter
Publication Date
1980-03-01
Pages
288
ISBN
9780801823275

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801823277
ISBN-13
9780801823275
eBay Product ID (ePID)
863205

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Comedy : "An Essay on Comedy" by George Meredith "Laughter" by Henri Bergson
Subject
Comedy, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year
1980
Features
Reprint
Type
Textbook
Author
Wylie Sypher
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Performing Arts
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Item Length
8 in
Item Width
5.2 in

Additional Product Features

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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
79-003701
Reviews
"Probably the two best looks at the lighter side are these essays, the first by a master of the English novel of manners, the second by a philosopher who influenced a generation of French writers, including Proust... Contains a long index and appendix, the latter offering a wide-ranging historical inquiry into the comic."-- Washington Post Book World, Probably the two best looks at the lighter side are these essays, the first by a master of the English novel of manners, the second by a philosopher who influenced a generation of French writers, including Proust... Contains a long index and appendix, the latter offering a wide-ranging historical inquiry into the comic., ""Probably the two best looks at the lighter side are these essays, the first by a master of the English novel of manners, the second by a philosopher who influenced a generation of French writers, including Proust... Contains a long index and appendix, the latter offering a wide-ranging historical inquiry into the comic.""
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Edition Description
Reprint
Table Of Content
Introduction An Essay on Comedy Laughter Part I. The Comic in General Chapter 1. The Comic Element in Forms and movements Chapter 2. Expansive Force of the Comic Part II. The Comic Element in Situations and the Comic Element in Words Part III. The Comic in Character Appendix: The Meanings of Comedy I. Our New Sense of the Comic II. The Ancient Rites of Comedy III. The Guides of the Comic Hero IV. The Social Meanings of Comedy Notes Bibliographical Note
Synopsis
Casting a critical eye on comic works throughout the ages, Meredith finds that the most skilled masters of the comic art--Aristophanes, Rabelais, Voltaire, Cervantes, Fielding, Molière--used comedy to grasp the essence of humanity. Comedy, according to Meredith's theory, serves an important moral and social function: it redeems us from our posturings, stripping away pride, arrogance, complacency, and other sins. Bergson's essay looks at comedy within a wider field of vision, focusing on laughter and on what makes us laugh. His study examines comic characters and comic acts, comedy in literature and in children's games, comedy as high art and base entertainment, to develop a psychological and philosophical theory of the mainsprings of comedy. Complementing the work of Meredith and Bergson in Wylie Sypher's appendix, as essay that discusses comedy and the underlying comic structure in both anthropological and literaty contexts. Sypher offers an enlightening discussion of the relationship between comedy and tragedy and their link with the ritual purging of evil from a society by means of a scapegoat. He then goes on to examine the guises of the comic hero in such figures as the Wife of Bath, Don Quixote, and Falstaff, relating them to such great tragic figures as Oedipus, Faust, and Hamlet. Through the many perspectives it offers, Comedy will appeal not only to students of literature and literary criticism, but to those studying philosophy and history as well., "Laughter makes us human" is the theme of these two classic works, one by the English novelist George Meredith, the other by the celebrated French philosopher Henri Bergson. Written some hundred years ago, largely in response to what their authors saw as the dehumanization of man in the industrial age, the essays still convey great sense and significance today., Through the many perspectives it offers, Comedy will appeal not only to students of literature and literary criticism, but to those studying philosophy and history as well.

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