Comedy Matters - From Shakespeare to Stoppard

Zusatztext "Demastes' study is a thoughtful! cogent! and! ultimately! very useful consideration of comedy! an oft overlooked and certainly under theorized genre of dramatic literature . . ..that it is simultaneously theoretically perceptive and lucid. The study could well be viewed as an example of contemporary theatre scholarship at its best." - Jonathan Chambers! Bowling Green State University Informationen zum Autor WILLIAM B. DEMASTES is Professor of English at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA. Klappentext Comedy Matters traces the long tradition of the expansive comic embrace of cultural difference and diversity that manages to survive even in some of mankind s darkest moments. Demastes argues that comedy has a hard-nosed, pragmatic dimension that can be mobilized against belligerent cultural forces. Drawing from the works of Shakespeare, Stoppard, and a number of other comic masters, Comedy Matters demonstrates how comedy continues to work against cultural regimentation by striving to re-calibrate our decision-making processes and challenging the stultifying rigidity of human economy in the broadest sense of the term. "Demastes' study is a thoughtful, cogent, and, ultimately, very useful consideration of comedy, an oft overlooked and certainly under theorized genre of dramatic literature....that it is simultaneously theoretically perceptive and lucid. The study could well be viewed as an example of contemporary theatre scholarship at its best."--Jonathan Chambers, Bowling Green State University Zusammenfassung Comedy Matters traces the long tradition of the expansive comic embrace of cultural difference and diversity that manages to survive even in some of mankind s darkest moments. Demastes argues that comedy has a hard-nosed, pragmatic dimension that can be mobilized against belligerent cultural forces. Drawing from the works of Shakespeare, Stoppard, and a number of other comic masters, Comedy Matters demonstrates how comedy continues to work against cultural regimentation by striving to re-calibrate our decision-making processes and challenging the stultifying rigidity of human economy in the broadest sense of the term. Inhaltsverzeichnis Into the 21st Century The Organics of Comedy On The Razor's Edge Connecting Mind to Body More than Matter Matters The Orderly Disorder of Comic Vitality and Its Liberating Potential Comedy as Gift Comedy Confronts Commodity Via the Adaptive Unconscious Things Could Be Better, Things Could be Worse...

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Into the 21st Century The Organics of Comedy On The Razor's Edge Connecting Mind to Body More than Matter Matters The Orderly Disorder of Comic Vitality and Its Liberating Potential Comedy as Gift Comedy Confronts Commodity Via the Adaptive Unconscious Things Could Be Better, Things Could be Worse

Bericht

"Demastes' study is a thoughtful, cogent, and, ultimately, very useful consideration of comedy, an oft overlooked and certainly under theorized genre of dramatic literature . . ..that it is simultaneously theoretically perceptive and lucid. The study could well be viewed as an example of contemporary theatre scholarship at its best." - Jonathan Chambers, Bowling Green State University

Produktdetails

• Autoren: W Demastes, W. Demastes, William W (Louisiana State University) Demastes, William W. Demastes, Unknown
• Verlag: Palgrave UK
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.07.2008
• EAN: 9780230604711
• ISBN: 978-0-230-60471-1
• Seiten: 210
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Kunst > Theater, Ballett; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Biologie > Ökologie; Ratgeber > Recht, Beruf, Finanzen > Ausbildung, Beruf, Karriere; Theater, B, Poetry, Environment, The environment, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Environmental Sciences, Environment, general, Theatre and Performance Arts, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Early Modern and Renaissance Literature, Literature, Modern, Theatre and Performance Studies, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, comedy;Tom Stoppard;William Shakespeare