Title Comedy in comparative literature : essays on Dante, Hoffman, Nietzsche, Wharton, Borges, and Cabrera Infante / edited by David Gallagher ; with a foreword by Manfred Pfister.

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Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

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Description	1 online resource (203 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Studies in comparative literature ; v. 69
	Studies in comparative literature (Lewiston, N.Y.) ; v. 69.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-203).
Contents	The trumpets of Dante's Inferno / Kathleen Haley -- Uncanny laughter: reworking Freud's theory of jokes with E.T.A. Hoffmann's 'The sandman' / Naomi Beeman -- Signifying laughter: the comic style of Nietzsche's Die frohliche Wissenschaft / Adrian Switzer -- The laughter of gods and devils: Edith Wharton and the Coen Brothers on deception, disappointment, and cosmic irony / Svetlana Rukhelman -- Jorge Luis Borges: aesthetic constructs and the humanism of play / Natalya Sukhonos -- Recovering laughter: corporeal follies in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Tres tristes tigres / Kael Ashbaugh.
Summary	A collection of essays that explore the very dynamics of comedy, jokes laughter and theorization from early writings of antiquity to contemporary modern day fiction and fits well into the genre of comparative literature and will pose many opportunities for further scholarship.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Comic, The, in literature.
	Comic, The, in literature.
	Laughter in literature.
	Laughter in literature.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	Gallagher, David.
	Pfister, Manfred.
Other Form:	Print version: Comedy in comparative literature. Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen Press, 2010 9780773414402 (DLC) 2010045345 (OCoLC)678924078
ISBN	9780773420595 (electronic book)
	0773420592 (electronic book)
	9780773414402
	0773414401

Title Comedy in comparative literature : essays on Dante, Hoffman, Nietzsche, Wharton, Borges, and Cabrera Infante / edited by David Gallagher ; with a foreword by Manfred Pfister.

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