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Book SynopsisArguing that the comic is a quality of literary works of art in other forms as well as comedy, George McFadden finds its essence in the maintenance of some literary feature--a situation, a character--as itself despite threats to alter it. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to agai
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. 1*1. The Comic as a Literary Quality, pg. 10*2. Description of the Comic as a General Feature in Literature, pg. 22*3. Comic Ethos: The Classical View, pg. 49*4. The Romantic Theory of the Comic, pg. 80*5. The Modern Comic Ethos: Bergson's Laughter, pg. 111*6. Modern Comic Ethos Continued: Freud, pg. 131*7. Twentieth-Century Theorists: Mauron, Cornford, Frye, pg. 152*8. Nietzschean Values in Comic Writing, pg. 174*9. After Barthes: Death of the Comic?, pg. 204*10. Conclusions and Continuing Issues, pg. 242*Selected Bibliography, pg. 255*Index of Names and Titles, pg. 263*Subject Index, pg. 266
