About this title: In "The Terrain of Comedy", Louise Cowan & her colleagues in the Dallas school of critics present a thorough probing of comedy as one of the territories through which the soul must journey, an "encompassing image" manifest in every culture. In the Introduction Cowan sets forth her theory of genres as embodying certain complex attitudes of the soul. Cowan points out that these essayists "would agree that comedy represents one of the major spatializations of reality of which literature is capable, (they) would not limit its presence to drama, & would view individual examples of comedy as ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dallas Institute of Humanities a
Date Published: 1985
ISBN-13:9780911005059ISBN:0911005056
Description: Acceptable. Moderate highlighting; binding slightly cracked at center Overall below average used book. May have highlighting, underlining, notes, price sticker on cover, or be an ex-library book. read more
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