Comedy high and low: an introduction to the experience of comedy
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Oxford Univ. Press
1978
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| Physical Description: | XVII, 203 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0195024303 019502320X |
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I The Language and Rhetoric of Comedy
9
Irony lies at the heart of comic technique. All comedy
is a manipulation of deceptive appearances.
10
Language is a vast sea of comic possibilities swirling beneath
rational discourse.
19
Nonsense, both calculated and spontaneous
,
is one of the chief
by-products of language.
25
Comic aimlessness and stupidity create the illusion of naive,
unconscious humor.
32
Popular humor is topical and satirical.
31
Condensation and an epigrammatic style are essential aspects
of comic creativity.
40
Perfect timing is the ideal all actors and joke-
te
1
1er
s
are striving
to achieve.
45
II Comic Characters: Conventions and Types
49
Conventions are a tacit agreement between playwright and audience
about
sodai
stereotypes and the ways of representing them.
50
Identity is conventionally defined by external signs, and costume
is a significant expression of personality
. 53
Comic
characters begin with fixed and sometimes arbitrary values
and connotations.
56
In most comedies, wit replaces virtue and pretense
is the greatest vice.
59
Pretenders are not only deflated in comedy but also displayed
and celebrated.
62
Comedy deals not with representative types, but with extremes
and caricatures.
69
The Structure of Comedy
15
Comedies usually begin with a startling pronouncement
or an outrageous situation.
16
The comic action is developed by repetition, accumulation,
and snowballing.
82
Comedies are expected to end happily, with feasting, dancing,
drinking, revelry, and the promise of offspring.
88
Forms of Comedy: Farce, Tragic Farce, Burlesque,
Comedy of Manners, Satire, and Festive Comedy
95
A farce is a comedy with an extravagant plot in which anything can
happen. The characters are developed by quirks and eccentricities
rather than according to any believable, psychological truth.
91
In tragic farce, the themes and techniques of tragedy
have been absorbed and comically transformed.
105
Burlesque comedy mocb the moral and stylistic pretensions
of tragedy and romance.
115
In comedy of manners, the wits are arbiters of good taste, while the
butts are awkward, stiff, pretentious, and social misfits.
121
Satiric comedy seeks to display and control
its villain-heroes.
121
Festive comedy vanquishes all obstructions and asserts a hedonistic,
holiday
,
carnival spirit
. 135
V Comedy in Theory and in Practice: Seven Aspects of the
Comic Hero
143
The comic hero imagines himself to be invulnerable
and omnipotent
. 145
The comic hero indulges in wish fulfillment
and fantasy gratification
. 151
The comic hero engages in play
without any ulterior purpose.
155
The comic hero is a realist who celebrates the body
and affirms the life force.
160
The comic hero cultivates comic paranoia, as if laughter
were an essential defense against a hostile reality.
161
The comic hero may serve as the ritual clown of his sodety,
acting as a scapegoat for its taboos.
172
The comic hero doesn t eventually merge into the tragic hero,
but represents an entirely different range of experience.
Π
4
Notes on Sources, with Suggestions
for Further Reading
119
Index
191
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