Research Catalog

Title

The idea of comedy : history, theory, critique / Jan Walsh Hokenson.

Author

Hokenson, Jan.

Publication

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2006.

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Description

287 p.; 25 cm.

Subjects

• Comedy > History and criticism
• Comic, The, in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-277) and index.

Contents

From classical to modern: the arc from ethical to social conceptions. The classical attitude -- The Renaissance attitude and after -- Early modernist theory -- Theory and resistance -- The dominant modernist conception of comedy: premises and elisions -- Modernist residua of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The dominant satiric, neo-Aristotelian view -- The legacy of the dominant through 2000 -- The late modernist conception of comedy: premises and elisions. The emergent populist theory -- The comic hero and modernist legacies -- Twin modernist elisions. The slippage between neo-Aristotelian and populist views -- Elision in theory: the medieval fool tradition -- Fooling theory -- The interlude of postmodernist conceptions. Late century overview -- The Ludic terrain of postmodern theory -- Comedy in contemporary thought. The butts of subjectivity -- The butts of reason -- The return of systems and aesthetics -- Epilogue: the contemporary idea of comedy. The contemporary retrospective -- The idea of comedy -- Comedy as an idea.

Call Number

JFE 07-143

ISBN

• 0838640966 (alk. paper)
• 9780838640968 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2005018161
• 9780838640968

OCLC

60742123

Author

Hokenson, Jan.

Title

The idea of comedy : history, theory, critique / Jan Walsh Hokenson.

Imprint

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2006.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-277) and index.

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Other Standard Identifier

9780838640968

Research Call Number

JFE 07-143