Comparative Criticism: Volume 10, Comedy, Irony, Parody
Comparative Criticism: Volume 10, Comedy, Irony, Parody

Author: E. S. Shaffer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989-11-09

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780521390149

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Volume 10, dedicated to 'Comedy, Irony, Parody', celebrates the first decade of Comparative Criticism in a light-hearted vein. Michael Silk opens with a wide-ranging essay asserting the primacy of comedy and declaring its independence of tragedy. T. L. S. Sprigge explores philosophers who dared to write on laughter: Schopenhauer and Bergson. Bernard Harrison looks at the twentieth century's favourite comic novel, Tristram Shandy, in the light of Locke's views on 'the particular'. Peter Brand pursues the theatrical arts of disguises, masking, and gender-swapping through Renaissance Europe, from Ariosto to Shakespeare. Jane H. M. Taylor traces the danse macabre in modern 'black humour'. Christine Brooke-Rose, distinguished novelist and critic, reads from and comments on her own witty fictions. Michael Wood describes how Lolita outwitted her seducer.

The Dissident Montaigne
The Dissident Montaigne

Author: Max Gauna

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 328

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This study asks and provides answers to four questions. The first two are these: What does Montaigne say which is relevant to religion, and what are the implications of what he says? They are answered by examination of and commentary on all the relevant matter from the first to the last of the Essais. Particular attention is paid to context, and in many cases complete analysis of the arguments of individual essays are provided. Only then are the last two questions considered, namely, did Montaigne intend such implications to be drawn, and what is the nature of his personal belief? The answers explain Montaigne's status as an inspiration to generations of post-Renaissance freethinkers.

Reference Guide to World Literature
Reference Guide to World Literature

Author: Lesley Henderson

Publisher: Saint James Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 808

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Overviews of writers and works from the ancient Greeks through the 20th century, written by subject experts. Each author entry provides a detailed overview of the writer's life and works. Work entries cover a particular piece of world literature in detail.

A Critical Study of the Tragedies of Robert Garnier (1545-90)
A Critical Study of the Tragedies of Robert Garnier (1545-90)

Author: John Holyoake

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13:

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Garnier is by common consent the greatest tragedian of the French Renaissance. The core of this book consists of detailed critical commentaries on each of his seven tragedies. The stress is placed on the individual qualities of each separate tragedy, although some attention is given to the need to synthesize as well as to Garnier's characteristic qualities. The introduction deals with possible approaches to sixteenth-century tragedy in general while a preliminary chapter traces the historical development of tragedy before Garnier; there are sections on imitation, originality, sources, rhetoric and performance. The author concludes that Garnier does not conform to norms as much as has been claimed and that it is misleading to divide his development so neatly into three phases.