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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Feibleman, James Kern, 1904- In praise of comedy. New York, Russell & Russell, 1962 (OCoLC)572510294 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James Kern Feibleman |
| ISBN: | 0818011521 9780818011528 |
| OCLC Number: | 1079627 |
| Description: | 284 p. 21 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. A survey of the history of comedy: Ancient comedy -- Archaic Greek comedy -- Classic Greek comedy -- Roman comedy -- Mediœval comedy -- Renaissance comedy -- Seventeenth-century comedy -- Eighteenth-century comedy -- Nineteenth-century comedy -- 2. Some classical theories of comedy: Realistic theory: Plato -- Realistic theory: Aristotle -- Later Greek commentators: the Tractatus Coislinianus, Jamblichus and Proclus -- Roman commentators: Cicero and Quintilian -- Comedy in transition: Tzetzes and Vico -- Nominalistic theory: Hobbes -- Gottsched and Schlegel -- Kant, Spencer, Schopenhauer, Hazlitt -- Meredith and the genteel tradition -- Everett and psychology -- 3. Criticism of modern theories of comedy: The subjective-metaphysical: Bergson -- The subjective-metaphysical: Croce, Carritt -- The subjective-literary: Jankélévitch, Eastman, Leacock -- The subjective-literary: Menon, Seward, Gregory -- The psychoanalytic: Freud -- The physiological: Dumas, Bechterev, Crile -- The logical: Zuver, Graves -- 4. The meaning of comedy: Apology -- The aesthetic background -- What is comedy? -- The logic of art -- Psychological aspects -- Perspective aspects -- Comedy and tragedy -- Kinds of comedy -- The divine comedy -- 5. Illustrations from modern comedians: In praise of the comedian -- The comedy of everyday life: the Marx Brothers -- The comedy of myth: James Joyce -- The comedy of literature: Gertrude Stein -- The human comedy: Charlie Chaplin -- The comedy of adventure: "Prince" Romanoff -- The comedy of history: Sellar and Yeatman -- The comedy of art: surrealism -- The popular comedy: idols of the marketplace -- Conclusion. |
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