Comedy in comparative literature : essays on Dante, Hoffmann, Nietzsche, Wharton, Borges, and Cabrera Infante / edited by David Gallagher ; with a foreword by Manfred Pfister
The trumpets of Dante's Inferno / Kathleen Haley -- Uncanny laughter: reworking Freud's theory of jokes with E.T.A. Hoffmann's 'The sandman' / Naomi Beeman -- Signifying laughter: the comic style of Nietzsche's Die fröhliche Wissenschaft / Adrian Switzer -- The laughter of gods and devils: Edith Wharton and the Coen Brothers on deception, disappointment, and cosmic irony / Svetlana Rukhelman -- Jorge Luis Borges: aesthetic constructs and the humanism of play / Natalya Sukhonos -- Recovering laughter: corporeal follies in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Tres tristes tigres / Kael Ashbaugh
Summary
A collection of essays that explore the very dynamics of comedy, jokes laughter and theorization from early writings of antiquity to contemporary modern day fiction and fits well into the genre of comparative literature and will pose many opportunities for further scholarship
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203)
