In Praise of Comedy

ISBN-13: 9781032222189 / Miękka / 2024 / 282 str.

James Feibleman

Opis

First published in 1939, the original blurb begins: We have learned much lately concerning theories of laughter, yet laughter is only what we do about comedy. What is comedy itself? In this work the history of comic instances is combed in the search for the truth about comedy.

Spis treści

Preface.  Part I: A Survey of the History of Comedy  1. Ancient Comedy  2. Archaic Greek Comedy  3. Classical Greek Comedy  4. Roman Comedy  5. Mediaeval Comedy  6. Renaissance Comedy  7. Seventeenth-Century Comedy  8. Eighteenth-Century Comedy  9. Nineteenth-Century Comedy  Part II: Some Classical Theories of Comedy  1. Realistic Theory: Plato  2. Realistic Theory: Aristotle  3. Later Greek Commentators: The Tractatus Coislinianus, Jamblichus and Proclus  4. Roman Commentators: Cicero and Quintilian  5. Comedy in Transition: Tzetzes and Vico  6. Nominalistic Theory: Hobbes  7. Gottsched and Schlegel  8. Kant, Spencer, Schopenhauer, Hazlitt  9. Meredith and the Genteel Tradition  10. Everett and Psychology  Part III: Criticism of Modern Theories of Comedy  1. The Subjective-Metaphysical: Bergson  2. The Subjective-Metaphysical: Croce, Carritt  3. The Subjective-Literary: Jankélévitch, Eastman, Leacock  4. The Subjective-Literary: Menon, Seward, Gregory  5. The Psychoanalytic: Freud  6. The Physiological: Dumas, Bechterev, Crile  7. The Logical: Zuver, Graves  Part IV: The Meaning of Comedy  1. Apology  2. The Aesthetic Background  3. What is Comedy?  4. The Logic of Art  5. Psychological Aspects  6. Perspective Aspects  7. Comedy and Tragedy  8. Kinds of Comedy  9. The Divine Comedy  Part V: Illustrations from Modern Comedians  1. In Praise of the Comedian  2. The Comedy of Everyday Life: The Marx Brothers  3. The Comedy of Myth: James Joyce  4. The Comedy of Literature: Gertrude Stein  5. The Human Comedy: Charlie Chaplin  6. The Comedy of Adventure: "Prince" Romanoff  7. The Comedy of History: Sellar and Yeatman  8. The Comedy of Art: Surrealism  9. The Popular Comedy: Idols of the Marketplace  10. Conclusion.  Appendix.  Index.

O autorze

James Feibleman