Idea of Comedy : History, Theory, Critique.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (287 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Aims and Terms -- From Classical to Modern: The Arc from Ethical to Social Conceptions -- The Dominant Modernist Conception of Comedy: Premises and Elisions -- The Late Modernist Conception of Comedy: Premises and Elisions -- Twin Modernist Elisions -- The Interlude of Postmodernist Conceptions -- Comedy in Contemporary Thought -- Epilogue: The Contemporary Idea of Comedy -- Reference List.
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