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The idea of comedy : history, theory, critique
- 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
- 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.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780838640968
- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-143