Humanist Comedy by Welsh, Alexander

The Humanist Comedy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780300197518)

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Humanist Comedy by Welsh, Alexander

The Humanist Comedy

$44.00
Humanist Comedy by Welsh, Alexander

The Humanist Comedy

$44.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Alexander Welsh
ISBN-10: 0300197519
ISBN-13: 9780300197518
Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/27/2014
Pages: 280
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.13w x 0.68d
By Alexander Welsh
By Alexander Welsh
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Alexander Welsh is Emily Sanford Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Yale University. His many publications include The City of Dickens, Reflections on the Hero as Quixote, and Hamlet in His Modern Guises. He lives in Bethany, CT.

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