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Author : Frances McNeely Leonard
Publisher : Pilgrim Books (OK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Laughter in the Courts of Love written by Frances McNeely Leonard and published by Pilgrim Books (OK). This book was released on 1981 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frances McNeely Leonard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Comedy in Allegory written by Frances McNeely Leonard and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eimar O'Duffy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (658 download)
Download or read book The Walls of Athens written by Eimar O'Duffy and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Herman
Publisher : Samuel French , Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780573607226
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (72 download)
Download or read book A Company of Wayward Saints written by George Herman and published by Samuel French , Incorporated. This book was released on 1966 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The company is a commedia dell' arte group who wander by mistake into the eye of an allegory. They are humanity, wayward saints all, who are far from home and without means. A nobleman may be their salvation if they can put on a good show for him. Surprisingly, the Company chooses to present the history of man, from the Garden of Eden through Everyman in birth, adolescence, marriage and death. Along the way they enact other wayward adventures such as the assassination of Julius Caesar and the homecoming of Odysseus. It is a fine mosaic of life redeemed by humor and human understanding.
Author : Wilfred Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (913 download)
Download or read book Very Desirable Residence written by Wilfred Harrison and published by . This book was released on 199? with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen E. Kidd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139992902
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)
Download or read book Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy written by Stephen E. Kidd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the concept of 'nonsense' in ancient Greek thought and uses it to explore the comedies of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. If 'nonsense' (phluaria, lēros) is a type of language felt to be unworthy of interpretation, it can help to define certain aspects of comedy that have proved difficult to grasp. Not least is the recurrent perception that although the comic genre can be meaningful (i.e. contain political opinions, moral sentiments and aesthetic tastes), some of it is just 'foolery' or 'fun'. But what exactly is this 'foolery', this part of comedy which allegedly lies beyond the scope of serious interpretation? The answer is to be found in the concept of 'nonsense': by examining the ways in which comedy does not mean, the genre's relationship to serious meaning (whether it be political, aesthetic, or moral) can be viewed in a clearer light.
Author : Patrick Downey
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739101162
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Serious Comedy written by Patrick Downey and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of how seriously to take literature has vexed philosophers throughout the centuries. Are the stories we write merely noble lies told to hold society together? A means of comic detachment from a tragic world? Mimicry of transcendent truths? Potent acts of self-realization? From the Socratics to the Romantics, all of these opinions and more have been offered. In a pop-culture age in which we live out of the stories we tell, our culture needs a clear answer. In this masterful overview of the Western literary tradition, Patrick Downey traces how seriously philosophers and writers across the centuries, from Plato to Kierkegaard, have taken humanity’s attempts at self-authorship in tragedy and comedy. These attempts, Downey argues, only find resolution in history’s most significant work of literature: the Bible. Setting all other literature in its right place, the Bible and the gospel it proclaims take us beyond literature to the true story of reality, providing what the philosophers and poets have sought for all along: a serious comedy.
Author : James Branch Cabell
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781497534698
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Jurgen written by James Branch Cabell and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BURTON RASCOE Before each tarradiddle, Uncowed by sciolists, Robuster persons twiddle Tremendously big fists. "Our gods are good," they tell us; "Nor will our gods defer Remission of rude fellows' Ability to err." So this, your JURGEN, travels Content to compromise Ordainments none unravels Explicitly ... and sighs. * * * * * "Others, with better moderation, do either entertain the vulgar history of Jurgen as a fabulous addition unto the true and authentic story of St. Iurgenius of Poictesme, or else we conceive the literal acception to be a misconstruction of the symbolical expression: apprehending a veritable history, in an emblem or piece of Christian poesy. And this emblematical construction hath been received by men not forward to extenuate the acts of saints." -PHILIP BORSDALE. "A forced construction is very idle. If readers of The High History of Jurgen do not meddle with the allegory, the allegory will not meddle with them. Without minding it at all, the whole is as plain as a pikestaff. It might as well be pretended that we cannot see Poussin's pictures without first being told the allegory, as that the allegory aids us in understanding Jurgen." -E. NOEL CODMAN. "Too urbane to advocate delusion, too hale for the bitterness of irony, this fable of Jurgen is, as the world itself, a book wherein each man will find what his nature enables him to see; which gives us back each his own image; and which teaches us each the lesson that each of us desires to learn." -JOHN FREDERICK LEWISTAM. * * * * *
Author : James E. Evans
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810819870
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (198 download)
Download or read book Comedy, an Annotated Bibliography of Theory and Criticism written by James E. Evans and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No descriptive material is available for this title.
Author : Mike Brister
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781541380394
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Wager written by Mike Brister and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-12 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Morgan Leigh Dumont is rich, successful and famous. Matthew Ezra Shepherd is none of those things. Sarah, raised in Connecticut, is the oldest child in a prominent family. Matt, raised in Mississippi, is the youngest child in a farming family. Sarah is a winner in life's lottery and has a home in Malibu. Matt, a former Marine, is putting the pieces of his life back together. Sarah is driven, focused, difficult, and intimidating. Matt is friendly and smiles easily. Sarah is full of herself. Matt is full of mischief. They meet under false pretenses in New Orleans, the city built on false pretenses. She sees him only as the object of a wager; he sees her as an object to be avoided-and yet.What happens when love is uninvited, inconvenient, and demanding? When it keeps you up at night and distracts you during the day. When it counsels unreason, folly, and ruin. When it can breach any locked door, scale any high wall, or whisper above any noise. Fortunately, when it happens to someone else, it can be very funny.
Author : Peter Saccio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691621852
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Court Comedies of John Lyly written by Peter Saccio and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of Renaissance allegory has been the subject of much investigation, notably by Spenserian scholars. The subject is now enlarged through a study of the plays of the Elizabethan Court dramatists of the 1580's and early 1590's, particularly the comedies of John Lyly. Mr. Saccio rejects the older "topical readings" of Lyly; by extensive interpretation of particular plays he describes three distinct kinds of allegorical operation apparent in successive phases of Lyly's career and suggests that they form an important paradigm of the development of English drama itself. Originally published in 1969. 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.
Author : Charles S. Singleton
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781421432649
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Journey to Beatrice written by Charles S. Singleton and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singleton attempts to restore the allegorical elements to the foreground of interpreting the Comedy.
Author : L. J. Potts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000579050
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Comedy written by L. J. Potts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1949 this book is a study of comedy based on representative works of drama and narrative, mainly in English, from Chaucer to Bernard Shaw. The theme is that comedy implies a philosophy of life that is fairly constant, despite the changes in social conditions and fashions of thought. There is a bibliographical index and the book is illustrated fully and widely by quotations from English comic writers.
Author : Katherine Lever
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000579301
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Art of Greek Comedy written by Katherine Lever and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1956, this is a critical analysis of the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander studied in the context of the history of comedy, of the allied arts, and of contemporary life. Aristophanes and Menander are deservedly the most famous writers of Greek comedy. The extant comedies of Aristophanes are notable for wit, comical action, beautiful poetry, and the dramatization of such problems as health of mind and body, sex, money, government, law, religion, education, and drama, music and poetry. Menander portrays with delicate and sympathetic understanding a world in which the seeming evils of loss and discord eventually lead to the genuine goods of discovery and concord. The art of Aristophanes is critically examined in three chapters and that of Menander in one. For centuries Dionysos had been worshipped in a spirit of ecstasy which manifested itself in song, dance and the wearing of masks and costumes, pantomime, farce, and satire. The processes by which these diverse elements were developed and fused into the complex literary form of Old Comedy are the subject of the first three chapters. Aristophanes was not only pre-eminent as a writer of Old Comedy; he also participated in the transformation of Old Comedy into Middle Comedy, a curious and interesting dramatic form which is fully treated in the seventh chapter. In the last chapter the emergence of New Comedy is traced and the art of Menander criticized. The book ends with a brief indication of the various forms in which the spirit of Greek comedy had survived to the present day.
Author : James Branch Cabell
Publisher : New York, McBride
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Something about Eve written by James Branch Cabell and published by New York, McBride. This book was released on 1927 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something about Eve: A comedy of fig-leaves, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Author : Kent Cartwright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019263965X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment written by Kent Cartwright and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment argues that enchantment constitutes a key emotional and intellectual dimension of Shakespeare's comedies. It thus makes a new claim about the rejuvenating value of comedy for individuals and society. Shakespeare's comedies orchestrate ongoing encounters between the rational and the mysterious, between doubt and fascination, with feelings moved by elements of enchantment that also seem a little ridiculous. In such a drama, lines of causality become complex, and even satisfying endings leave certain matters incomplete and contingent—openings for scrutiny and thought. In addressing enchantment, the book takes exception to the modernist vision of a deterministic 'disenchanted' world. As Shakespeare's action advances, comic mysteries accrue—uncanny coincidences; magical sympathies; inexplicable repetitions; psychic influences; and puzzlements about the meaning of events—all of whose numinous effects linger ambiguously after reason has apparently answered the play's questions. Separate chapters explore the devices, tropes, and motifs of enchantment: magical clowns who alter the action through stop-time interludes; structural repetitions that suggest mysteriously converging, even opaquely providential destinies; locales that oppose magical and protean forces to regulatory and quotidian values; desires, thoughts, and utterances that 'manifest' comically monstrous events; characters who return from the dead, facilitated by the desires of the living; play-endings crossed by harmony and dissonance, with moments of wonder that make possible the mysterious action of forgiveness. Wonder and wondering in Shakespeare's and other comedies, it emerges, become the conditions for new possibilities. Chapters refer extensively to early modern history, Renaissance and modern theories of comedy, treatises on magical science, and contemporaneous Italian and Tudor comedy.
Author : Maureen Quilligan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501724487
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Language of Allegory written by Maureen Quilligan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and innovative work treats a body of literature not previously regarded as a unified genre. Offering comparative readings of a number of texts that are traditionally called allegories and that cover a wide time span, Maureen Quilligan formulates a vocabulary for talking about the distinctive generic elements they share. The texts she considers range from the twelfth-century De planctu naturae to Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, and include such works as Le Roman de la Rose, Langland's Piers Plowman, Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, Melville's Confidence Man, and Spenser's Faerie Queene. Whether or not readers agree with this book, they will enjoy and profit from it.
