Comedy in comparative literature: essays on Dante, Hoffman, Nietzsche, Wharton, Borges, and Cabrera Infante
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lewiston, NY Edwin Mellen Press 2010
Schriftenreihe:Studies in comparative literature (Lewiston, N.Y.) v. 69
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203)
The trumpets of Dante's Inferno / Kathleen Haley -- Uncanny laughter: reworking Freud's theory of jokes with E.T.A. Hoffmann's 'The sandman' / Naomi Beeman -- Signifying laughter: the comic style of Nietzsche's Die frohliche Wissenschaft / Adrian Switzer -- The laughter of gods and devils: Edith Wharton and the Coen Brothers on deception, disappointment, and cosmic irony / Svetlana Rukhelman -- Jorge Luis Borges: aesthetic constructs and the humanism of play / Natalya Sukhonos -- Recovering laughter: corporeal follies in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Tres tristes tigres / Kael Ashbaugh
A collection of essays that explore the very dynamics of comedy, jokes laughter and theorization from early writings of antiquity to contemporary modern day fiction and fits well into the genre of comparative literature and will pose many opportunities for further scholarship
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