The idea of comedy : history, theory, critique /
Hokenson, Jan.
Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-277) and index.
From classical to modern: the arc from ethical to social conceptions. The classical attitude -- The Renaissance attitude and after -- Early modernist theory -- Theory and resistance -- The dominant modernist conception of comedy: premises and elisions -- Modernist residua of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The dominant satiric, neo-Aristotelian view -- The legacy of the dominant through 2000 -- The late modernist conception of comedy: premises and elisions. The emergent populist theory -- The comic hero and modernist legacies -- Twin modernist elisions. The slippage between neo-Aristotelian and populist views -- Elision in theory: the medieval fool tradition -- Fooling theory -- The interlude of postmodernist conceptions. Late century overview -- The Ludic terrain of postmodern theory -- Comedy in contemporary thought. The butts of subjectivity -- The butts of reason -- The return of systems and aesthetics -- Epilogue: the contemporary idea of comedy. The contemporary retrospective -- The idea of comedy -- Comedy as an idea.
Comic, The, in literature.
Comedy