Comedy Matters: From Shakespeare to Stoppard: 0 - Hardcover

Demastes, William W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0230604714 ISBN 13: 9780230604711

Verlag: AIAA, 2008

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This book traces the long tradition of our culture's preference for anti-comic regimentation over the expansive comic embrace of cultural difference and diversity

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"Demastes' study is a thoughtful, cogent, and, ultimately, very useful consideration of comedy, an oft overlooked and certainly under theorized genre of dramatic literature . . ..that it is simultaneously theoretically perceptive and lucid. The study could well be viewed as an example of contemporary theatre scholarship at its best." - Jonathan Chambers, Bowling Green State University

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Comedy Matters traces the long tradition of the expansive comic embrace of cultural difference and diversity that manages to survive even in some of mankind's darkest moments. Demastes argues that comedy has a hard-nosed, pragmatic dimension that can be mobilized against belligerent cultural forces. Drawing from the works of Shakespeare, Stoppard, and a number of other comic masters, Comedy Matters demonstrates how comedy continues to work against cultural regimentation by striving to re-calibrate our decision-making processes and challenging the stultifying rigidity of human economy in the broadest sense of the term.

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• Verlag: AIAA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0230604714
• ISBN 13: 9780230604711
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 212