Comedy in comparative literature
Subtitle: essays on Dante, Hoffman, Nietzsche, Wharton, Borges, and Cabrera Infante
By: edited by David Gallagher ; with a foreword by Manfred Pfister
Series: Studies in comparative literature -- v. 69
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lewiston, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780773414402
Subjects: Comic, The, in literature; Laughter in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-203).
Table of contents: title: The trumpets of Dante's Inferno / Kathleen Haley; title: Uncanny laughter: reworking Freud's theory of jokes with E.T.A. Hoffmann's 'The sandman' / Naomi Beeman; title: Signifying laughter: the comic style of Nietzsche's Die frohliche Wissenschaft / Adrian Switzer; title: The laughter of gods and devils: Edith Wharton and the Coen Brothers on deception, disappointment, and cosmic irony / Svetlana Rukhelman; title: Jorge Luis Borges: aesthetic constructs and the humanism of play / Natalya Sukhonos; title: Recovering laughter: corporeal follies in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Tres tristes tigres / Kael Ashbaugh.