The Idea of Comedy: History, Theory, CritiqueFairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006 - 287 էջ 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 |
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Acknowledgments | 9 |
Twin Modernist Elisions | 143 |
The Interlude of Postmodernist Conceptions | 173 |
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