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Madness, Masks, and Laughter An Essay on Comedy
by Glasgow, R. D.
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- Comments: [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. 387 pages, 24 cm. <br> This work explores narrative and dramatic comedy as a laughter-inducing phenomenon. The theatrical metaphors of mask, appearance, and illusion function as structural linchpins, and previous theories of comedy as well as more general philosophical ideas, are discussed insofar as they shed light on this approach. <br> "Richard A. Macksey was
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- ISBN-13: 9780838635599
- ISBN: 0838635598
- Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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This work explores narrative and dramatic comedy as a laughter-inducing phenomenon. The theatrical metaphors of mask, appearance, and illusion function as structural linchpins, and previous theories of comedy as well as more general philosophical ideas, are discussed insofar as they shed light on this approach.Glasgow, R. D. is the author of 'Madness, Masks, and Laughter An Essay on Comedy' with ISBN 9780838635599 and ISBN 0838635598.
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