Reader in comedy : an anthology of theory and criticism

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 자료제공 :
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• GENERAL INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1: ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES
• INTRODUCTION
• TEXTS
• Ancient Views of Comedy
• 1) Plato, Philebus ("The Basis of comedy is malice")
• 2) Aristotle on the Origins and Function of Comedy
• a. Poetics
• b. "On the qualities of character that are moderate" from Nicomachean Ethics
• c. Tractatus Coislinianus
• 3) Horace, "Remarks on Comedy" from Epistles, Satires
• 4) Quintilian, Institutio oratoria (A.D. 95)
• Medieval Views of Comedy
• 5) Evanthius, On Drama (ca. A.D. 350)
• 6) Donatus, On Comedy (ca. A.D. 350)
• 7) Hrotsvita of Gandersheim, Prologue to the comedies (ca. A.D. 935-972)
• 8) Dante Alighieri, De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the vernacular) (1302-1305)
• 9) Definitions of Comedy (John of Garland, Dante, John Lydgate)
• 10) Attitudes to the Comic Theater (John of Salisbury, Honorius of Autun, Liuprand of Cremona)
• CHAPTER 2: THE RENAISSANCE
• INTRODUCTION
• TEXTS
• 1) Erasmus, Collected Works of Erasmus (1512)
• 2) Gian Giorgio Trissino, "Division VI: Comedy", Poetica (1529)
• 3) Sir Thomas Elyot, , "XII: The Second and third decay of leaning" The Governor The boke named the gouernour / deuised by Thomas Elyot knight(1531)
• 4) Nicholas Udall, Prologue to Ralph Roster Doister (1538)
• 5) Thomas Wilson, "Of Delighting the Hearers and Stirring Them to Laughter" fromThe Arte of Rhetorique (1560)
• 6) George Gascoigne, Prologue to The Glasse of Governement (1575)
• 7) Stephen Gosson, The School of Abuse: containing a pleasant invective against poets, pipers, players, jesters, etc (1579)
• 8) Sir Philip Sidney, "Comedy," "Tragicomedy," The Nature of Laughter" from The Defence of Poesie (1595)
• 9) Ben Jonson, Every Man Out of his Humour (1599)
• 10) Battista Guarini, Compendium of Tragicomic Poetry (1601)
• CHAPTER 3: RESTORATION TO ROMANTICISM
• INTRODUCTION
• TEXTS
• 1) Samuel Butler, Characters and Passages from Notebooks (ca. 1650)
• 2) Moliere, Preface to Tartuffe (1667)
• 3) William Congreve, Dedication to The Double-Dealer (1693)
• 4) John Dryden, Of Dramatick Poesie, an Essay(1668)
• 5) Aphra Behn "Epistle to the Reader", from The Dutch Lover (1673)
• 6) John Dryden, "A Discourse Concerning the Original and Progress of Satire" (1693)
• 7) Jeremy Collier, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage (1698)
• 8) Anthony Ashley Cooper, Third Earl of Shaftesbury, "The Freedom of Wit and Humour" from Sensus communis: An essay on the freedom of wit and humour (1709)
• 9) Richard Blackmore, Essay upon Wit(1716)
• 10) Henry Fielding, selections from the Preface to Joseph Andrews (1742)
• 11) Samuel Johnson, "The Difficulty of Defining Comedy", The Rambler (1751)
• 12) Oliver Goldsmith, "A Comparison between Laughing and Sentimental Comedy" (1773)
• 13) Immanuel Kant, "Comparison of the Aesthetic Value of the Various Fine Arts" from Critique of Judgment,
• 14) Jean Paul Richter, "On the Ridiculous" (1804)
• 15) William Hazlitt, "On Wit and Humour" (1819)
• 16) Charles Lamb, "On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century" (1822)
• CHAPTER 4: THE INDUSTRIAL AGE
• INTRODUCTION
• TEXTS
• 1) Søren Kierkegaard, "The reality of suffering (humor)"; "Humor as an incognito for religiosity"; "Humor - The religiosity of hidden inwardness" from Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1846)
• 2) W. M. Thackeray, The English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century (1853)
• 3) Charles Baudelaire, "On the Essence of Laughter" (1855)
• 4) George Meredith, An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit (1897)
• 5) George Bernard Shaw, "Meredith on Comedy" (1897)
• 6) Mark Twain, "How to Tell a Story" (1897)
• 7) Henri Bergson, "Laughter" (1901)
• 8) Sigmund Freud, "Wit and the Various Forms of the Comic" (1905)
• CHAPTER 5: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY AND EARLY-TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
• INTRODUCTION
• TEXTS
• 1) Luigi Pirandello, On Humor (1908, 1920)
• 2) Virginia Woolf, "Pure English" (1920)
• 3) Constance Rourke, American Humor: A Study of the National Character (1931)
• 4) Kenneth Burke, "Comic Correctives" from Attitudes Toward History (1937)
• 5) Susanne Langer, "The Comic Rhythm" from Feeling and Form (1953)
• 6) Georges Bataille, "Un-Knowing: Laughter and Tears" (1953)
• 7) Northrop Frye "Comic Fictional Modes" from Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (1965)
• 8) Jacques Derrida, "From Restricted to General Economy: A Hegelianism without Reserve" from Writing and Difference (1967)
• 9) Mikhail Bakhtin, "Rabelais in the History of Laughter" from Rabelais and His World (1965)
• 10) Rene Girard, "Perilous Balance: a Comic Hypothesis" (1972)
• 11) Gerald Mast, "Comic Films-Categories and Definitions" from The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies (1973)
• 12) Stanley Cavell, Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of Remarriage (1981)
• 13) Mahadev L. Apte, "Sexual Inequality in Humor" from Humor and Laughter: An Anthropological Approach (1984)
• 14) Linda Hutcheon, A Theory of Parody (1985)
• 15) Henry Jenkins, "Agee, Mast, and the Classical Tradition" and "Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic" from What Made Pistachio Nuts?: Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic (1992)
• 16) Simon Critchley, On Humour (2002)
• 17) Glenda R. Carpio, Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery (2008)
• 18) Michael North, Machine-Age Comedy (2009)
• 19) Ruth Wisse, No Joke: Making Jewish Humor (2013)
• 20) Magda Romanska, "Disability in Tragic and Comic Frame" (2015)
• PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• INDEX