The idea of comedy : history, theory, critique /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Hokenson, Jan.
Imprint:Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2006.
Description:287 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5881129
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:0838640966 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-277) and index.
Description
Summary:One of the few constants in Western critical though for over twomillennia has been the inexhaustible fascination with comedy: what itis and how it works. Yet comedy has eluded every definition. Why haveso many of the leading critics and philosophers of the West proposedtheories and counter-theories of comedy while often admitting that itenthralls and baffles the mind in equal measure? The Idea of Comedy: A Critique assembles a rich corpus of materials from differentlanguages and eras to construct a history of the commentaries andreflections, the theoretical postulates and conjectures, and the oftenacrimonious debates about comedy through the centuries from Platoand Aristotle to our contemporaries
Physical Description:287 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-277) and index.
ISBN:0838640966