The Humanist Comedy - Brossura

Welsh, Alexander

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ISBN 10: 0300197519 ISBN 13: 9780300197518

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world’s religious beliefs and practices. From the ancient Greek comedies of Aristophanes, the famous poem by Lucretius, and dialogues of Cicero to early modern and Enlightenment essays and philosophical texts, together with the inherent skepticism about life after death in tragicomedies by Plautus, Shakespeare, Molière, and nineteenth-century novels by such as Dickens and Hugo, the literary critic and historian Alexander Welsh analyzes the prevalence of openness of mind and relieving good humor in Western thought.The Humanist Comedy concludes with close examination of a postmodern novel by the Nobel Prize winner José Saramago.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Alexander Welsh is Emily Sanford Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Yale University. His many publications includeThe City of Dickens, Reflections on the Hero as Quixote, and Hamlet in His Modern Guises. He lives in Bethany, CT.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0300197519
• ISBN 13: 9780300197518
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 266