Discovering the Comic :Discovering the Comic ( Princeton Legacy Library )

Publication subTitle :Discovering the Comic

Publication series :Princeton Legacy Library

Author: McFadden George;;;  

Publisher: Princeton University Press‎

Publication year: 2014

E-ISBN: 9781400855957

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691064963

Subject: I053 dramatic literature

Keyword: 世界文学

Language: ENG

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Description

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 the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Chapter

Contents

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

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