The Idea of Comedy

Released on by Jan Hokenson
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  • The Idea of Comedy Book Detail

  • Author : Jan Hokenson
  • Release Date : 2006
  • Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 300
  • ISBN 13 : 9780838640968
  • File Size : 90,90 MB
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The Idea of Comedy by Jan Hokenson PDF Summary

Book Description: "Disengaging unstated premises to show how the theoretical discourse about comedy often enacts the intellectual disputes of its time, The idea of comedy tracks the history of comic theories along two principal axes. The first is historical, showing how the Hellenistic ethical conception devolves into social superiority and then into populist assertions, enidng on the question of whether contemporary comic theory is still populist today." "The second axis is conceptual, sorting theories by types of agreement and dispute. Whether comedy improves the citizens or threatens political instability, whether it insults or enacts moral standards, whether it serves God and the integrated superego or the devil and the anarchic id, are some of the questions addressed by theroists such as Cicero, Maggi, Dryden, Kant, Schopenhauer, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Freud, Lacan, and Genette." -book jacket.

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