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Madness, Masks, And Laughter: An Essay On Comedy Is An Exploration Of Narrative And Dramatic Comedy As A Laughter-inducing Phenomenon. The Theatrical Metaphors Of Mask, Appearance, And Illusion Are Used As Structural Linchpins In An Attempt To Categorize The Many And Extremely Varied Manifestations Of Comedy And To Find Out What They May Have In Common With One Another. As This Reliance On Metaphor Suggests, The Purpose Is Less To Produce The Truth About Comedy Than To Look At How It Is Related To Our Understanding Of The World And To Ways Of Understanding Our Understanding. Previous Theories Of Comedy Or Laughter (such As Those Advanced By Hobbes, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Bergson, Freud, And Bakhtin) As Well As More General Philosophical Considerations Are Discussed Insofar As They Shed Light On This Approach. The Limitations Of The Metaphors Themselves Mean That Sight Is Never Lost Of The Deep-seated Ambiguity That Has Made Laughter So Notoriously Difficult To Pin Down In The Past. The First Half Of The Volume Focuses In Particular On Traditional Comic Masks And The Pleasures Of Repetition And Recognition, On The Comedy Of Imposture, Disguise, And Deception, On Dramatic And Ver

Author

Glasgow, R. D. V. (rupert D. V.) , 1964-

Publisher

Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780838635599

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities