Comedy, Meaning and FormRobert Willoughby Corrigan |
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... humor in comedy , from the quick repartee that elicits a smile by its cleverness without being intrinsically funny at all , to the absurdity that sets young and old , simple or sophisticate , shouting with merri- ment . Humor has its ...
... humor in comedy , from the quick repartee that elicits a smile by its cleverness without being intrinsically funny at all , to the absurdity that sets young and old , simple or sophisticate , shouting with merri- ment . Humor has its ...
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... humor , " the character dominated by what Pope calls a ruling passion . The humor's dramatic function is to express a state of what might be called ritual bondage . He is obsessed by his humor , and his function in the play is primarily ...
... humor , " the character dominated by what Pope calls a ruling passion . The humor's dramatic function is to express a state of what might be called ritual bondage . He is obsessed by his humor , and his function in the play is primarily ...
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... humor . They don't need one . Men and women do because they have inhibited many of their strongest wishes . How does the sense of humor go to work ? Its aim is to gratify some of the forbidden wishes . But what is repressed is repressed ...
... humor . They don't need one . Men and women do because they have inhibited many of their strongest wishes . How does the sense of humor go to work ? Its aim is to gratify some of the forbidden wishes . But what is repressed is repressed ...
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