The idea of comedy : history, theory, critique /
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| Author / Creator: | Hokenson, Jan. |
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| Imprint: | Madison : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2006. |
| Description: | 287 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5881129 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Aims and Terms
- 1. 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
- 2. 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
- 3. The Late Modernist Conception of Comedy: Premises and Elisions
- The Emergent Populist Theory
- The Comic Hero and Modernist Legacies
- 4. Twin Modernist Elisions
- The Slippage between Neo-Aristotelian and Populist Views
- Elision in Theory: The Medieval Fool Tradition
- Fooling Theory
- 5. The Interlude of Postmodernist Conceptions
- Late Century Overview
- The Ludic Terrain of Postmodern Theory
- 6. 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
- Reference List
- Index