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Author : Frances McNeely Leonard
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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 : Giuseppe Mazzotta
Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691063997
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (639 download)
Download or read book Dante, Poet of the Desert written by Giuseppe Mazzotta and published by Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description for this book, Dante, Poet of the Desert: History and Allegory in the DIVINE COMEDY, will be forthcoming.
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 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 : 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.
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 : 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 : 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 : Aristophanes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The comedies of Aristophanes: The peace. The birds written by Aristophanes and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 760 pages
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Download or read book The Gentleman's Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Clark
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of Epic Poetry (post-Virgilian) written by John Clark and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Milton E. Polsky
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557834850
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)
Download or read book You Can Write a Play! written by Milton E. Polsky and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). Do you have an idea for a play? A situation or experience from your home or work life? Fantasy? With helpful, clear examples, taken from his own experiences in teaching, directing and playwriting, Milton Polsky shows how to find and shape a dramatic idea and bring it to fruition. In addition to providing many practical exercises, suggestions and tips, he discusses and illustrates with examples from established playwrights "the importance of giving shape to your idea so that what is in your head and heart can be expressed to the fullest." To facilitate this creative process, there are "What if?", "Just for You," "Playwright's Page" sections; diagrams, journal exercises; and for this revised edition, end of chapter "Suggested Activities for the Classroom" (solo and group); addditional appendices, including one on feedback; and over 50 new photos. This invaluable and basic guide to writing plays is ideal for teachers, students, camp counselors, community theatre leaders and for anyone who knows there's a play inside, trying to get out!
Author : William Roy Mackenzie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The English Moralities from the Point of View of Allegory written by William Roy Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G. Stone
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403983097
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Dante’s Pluralism and the Islamic Philosophy of Religion written by G. Stone and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-05-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the Islamic roots of the Western values of tolerance and religious pluralism, and considers Dante from the perspective of the Arab-Islamic philosophical tradition. It examines the relations between Islamic and Western thought, the historical origins of Western values, and the tradition of tolerance in classical Islamic thought.
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Total Pages : 890 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
