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...Lisa Trahair 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Lisa Trahair The Ghost in the Machine: The Comedy of Technology in the Cinema of Buster Keaton In his essay ‘‘The Question Concerning Tech- nology Martin Heidegger argues...

...Edward L. Galligan Copyright © 1978 by Duke University Press 1978 William Lynch s Theory of Comedy Edward L. Galligan William Lynch s theory of comedy developed in Christ and Apollo (New York, 1960) is, I think, the soundest, most helpful general theory of comedy available. It encompasses...

...Shirley Strum Kenny Copyright © 1979 by Duke University Press 1979 Elopements, Divorce, and the Devil Knows What : Love and Marriage in English Comedy, 1690 1720 Shirley Strum Kenny In Farquhar s The Recruiting Officer, which opened in 1706, the hero, Plume, says that he would never consent...

...Ralph Nash Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 A Scholiastic Distinction Between Tragedy and Comedy Ralph Nash In his attempt at reconstructing An Aristotelian Theory of Comedy (New York, 1922) Lane Cooper had occasion to list several hints of a theory respecting the end of comedy...

...Thornton S. Graves The Comedy of Stage Death Thornton S. Graves University of North Carolina. That stage deaths are funny no observant playgoer will deny. Who has not laughed to see some realist dive into a coal-scuttle on being hit by a high-power bullet, or giggled at the sort of histrionic...

...James E. Evans Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Comedy and the "Tragic Complexion of Tom Jones James E. Evans Tony Richardson s 1963 film Tom Jones contains an image not explicitly authorized by Fielding s novel: Tom, with a noose around his neck, being hanged. Fortuitously, he...

...Robert M. Torrance The Comedy of Language: Studies in Modern Comic Literature . By Robinson Fred Miller . Amherst : The University of Massachusetts Press , 1980 . Pp. x , 189 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 479 was writing. He states...

...Russ McDonald Copyright © 1982 by Duke University Press 1982 Comedy and Flannery O Connor Russ McDonald In what sense is Flannery O Connor a comic writer? The epithet is usually understood in a more limited way than it ought to be: most of those who describe O Connor s work as comic seem...

...Edward L. Galligan The Ways of the World: Comedy and Society . By Heilman Robert Bechtold . Seattle and London : University of Washington Press , 1978 . Pp. ix , 294 . $17.50 . Copyright © 1980 by Duke University Press 1980 110 The South Atlantic Quarterly Samuel Johnson...

...Elmo Howell Copyright © 1970 by Duke University Press 1970 Eudora Welty s Comedy of Manners Elmo Howell The genius of Jane Austen, said Sir Walter Scott a few years after the still obscure lady novelist died, is for the exquisite touch which renders ordinary common-place things...

...John Harold Wilson The Nobler Pleasure: Dryden’s Comedy in Theory and Practice . By Moore Frank Harper . Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press , 1963 . Pp. 264 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1963 by Duke University Press 1963 610 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...Merle M. Bevington Dickens: His Character, Comedy, and Career . By Pearson Hesketh . New York : Harper and Brothers , 1949 . Pp. 361 . $4.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke University Press 1950 Book Reviews 99 too, to the delighted readers of the products of so much toil...

...Benjamin Boyce Comedy and Society from Congreve to Fielding . By Loftis John . Stanford Studies in Language and Literature No. 19 . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1959 . Pp. 154 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 458 The South Atlantic Quarterly...

...P. F. Baum The Restoration Comedy of Wit . By Fujimura Thomas H. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1952 . Pp. ix , 232 . $4.00 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 312 The South Atlantic Quarterly of Europe, none to show how she got caught up...

...Ronald Berman Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Shakespearean Comedy and the Uses of Reason Ronald Berman The dialogue of The Courtier begins after Cesar Gonzago suggests that every man doe his best to grounde his opinion upon some sure signs and argument. With a kind...

...Raymond Himelick Jesting Moses: A Study of Cabellian Comedy . By Wells Arvin R. . Gainesville : University of Florida Press , 1962 . Pp. 136 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Book Reviews 591 for expressing its total meaning. Her interest in Milton s...

...Allan Gilbert The Divine Comedy . A New Prose Translation, with an Introduction and Notes, by Huse H. R. . New York : Rinehart and Company , 1954 . Pp. xviii , 492 . $5.00 . Copyright © 1955 by Duke University Press 1955 438 The South Atlantic Quarterly toward spinning what...

...F. K. Mitchell Shakespearian Comedy and Other Studies . By Gordon George . New York : Oxford University Press , 1944 . Pp. 158 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1945 by Duke University Press 1945 236 The South Atlantic Quarterly seats in the library of the British Museum, bidding against...

...Carol Watts 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Carol Watts A Comedy of Terrors: Candide and the Jus Publicum Europaeum If there is an eighteenth-century commentary on the ‘‘image of that great epoch of jus publicum...

...Larry S. Champion Love and Society in Shakespearean Comedy: A Study of Dramatic Form and Content . By Levin Richard A. . Newark : The University of Delaware Press ; London : Associated University Presses , 1985 . Pp. 9 , 203 . $26.50 . Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press...