| Description |
268 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
The comic as a literary quality -- Description of the comic as a general feature in literature -- Comic ethos: the classical view -- The romantic theory of the comic -- The modern comic ethos: Bergson's Laughter -- Modern comic ethos continued: Freud -- Twentieth-century theorists: Mauron, Cornford, Frye -- Nietzschean values in comic writing -- After Barthes: death of the comic? |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [255]-262 |
| Subject |
Comic, The.
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Wit and humor.
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| LC no. |
81015825 |
| ISBN |
0691064962 |
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