The Terrain of comedy
By: edited with an introduction by Louise Cowan.
Contributors: Cowan, Louise, 1916-
Publisher: Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Dallas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Comic, The, in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: Against the belly of the ram : the comedy of deception in The Odyssey / Glenn Arbery; title: The Bible as genesis of comedy / Daniel Russ; title: Aristophanes' comic apocalypse / Louise Cowan; title: Dante, Hegel, and the comedy of history / Bainard Cowan; title: Commedia dell'arte : the image of comedy / Mary Lou Hoyle; title: The communal action of The winter's tale / Kathleen Latimer; title: Carnival and Don Quixote : the folk tradition of comedy / Marilyn Stewart; title: The copious inventory of comedy / Robert S. Dupree; title: The icon and the spirit of comedy : Dostoesky's the possessed / Dennis Slattery; title: Faulkner's bachelors and fertility / Mary K. Mumbach.