Comedy: An Essay on Comedy by George Meredith. Laughter by Henri Bergson
Bergson's essay looks at comedy within a wider field of vision, focusing on laughter and on what makes us laugh. His study examines comic characters and comic acts, comedy in literature and in children's games, comedy as high art and base entertainment, to develop a psychological and philosophers...
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Bergson's essay looks at comedy within a wider field of vision, focusing on laughter and on what makes us laugh. His study examines comic characters and comic acts, comedy in literature and in children's games, comedy as high art and base entertainment, to develop a psychological and philosophers theory of the mainsprings of comedy.
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Format: Textbook
ISBN:
9780801823275 (0801823277)
ASIN: 9780801823275
Publish date: 01-04-1980
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Edition language: English
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