The death of comedy / Erich Segal.
The death of comedy / Erich Segal.
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
Date
2001.
Call Numbers
N809.2523/3
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Language
English
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Physical content
xi, 589 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Etymologies: Getting to the Root of It -- 2. The Song of the Komos -- 3. The Lyre and the Phallus -- 4. Aristophanes: The One and Only? -- 5. Failure and Success -- 6. The Birds: The Uncensored Fantasy -- 7. Requiem for a Genre? -- 8. The Comic Catastrophe -- 9. O Menander! O Life! -- 10. Plautus...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2001.
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
2001.
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Summary
At every turn in Segal's analysis - from Shakespeare to Molière to Shaw - another facet of the comic art emerges, until finally, he argues, "the head conquers and the heart dies": Letting the intellect take the lead, Cocteau, Ionesco, and Beckett smother comedy as we know it. The book is a tour de force, a sweeping panorama of the art and history...
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The death of comedy / Erich Segal.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N809.2523/3
Record Identifier
74VvQgkGqdBO
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ISBN
0674006437 (alk. paper)
9780674006430
0674006437
9780674006430 (alk. paper)
DDC
809.2523
MMS ID
991014569239702626
