The Comic Mode in English Literature: From the Middle Ages to Today

ISBN-13: 9781441195883 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 288 str.

Murray Roston

Opis

From Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales to Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary, this is a comprehensive guide to comedy in the English literary canon. Beginning with a critical exploration of historical and philosophical theories of humour, the book then supplies close-readings of a wide range of major texts, authors and genres from the Medieval period to the present. The Comic Mode in English Literature examines such texts as: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's DreamPope's The Rape of the LockAusten's EmmaDickens' The Pickwick PapersWilde's The Importance of Being EarnestAmis's Lucky Jim Covering poetry, prose and drama, this comprehensive guide will be essential reading for students of comic writing, literary history and genre.

Spis treści

1. Introduction \ 2. Late Medieval \ i. The Second Shepherds' Play \ ii. Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales \ iii. Medwall, Fulgens and Lucrece \ 3. The Renaissance \ i. Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream \ ii. Falstaff \ iii. Donne, The Flea \ iv. Marvell, The Garden \ 4. The Restoration and Eighteenth Century \ i. Restoration Comedy \ ii. Pope, The Rape of the Lock \ iii. The Vogue of Sentiment \ iv. Sterne, Tristram Shandy \ 5. The Nineteenth Century \ i. Austen, Emma \ ii. Dickens, The Pickwick Papers \ iii. Poking Fun at the Establishment \ iv. Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest \ v. Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat \ 6. The Twentieth Century \ i. George Bernard Shaw \ ii. Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm \ iii. Beckett, Waiting for Godot \ iv. Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim \ v. Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man \ vi. Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary \ Notes \ Works Cited - On the Comic \ Works Cited - General \ Index.