Comedy: An Annotated Bibliography of Theory and Criticism
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- James E. Evans, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: From Plato to Umber-to Eco comedy has been a subject of perennial
interest. In the 1980s there have even been two attempts, one
scholarly and one fictional, to recreate the "lost" book on comedy by
Plato's pupil Aristotle: by Richard Janko in Aristotle on Comedy:
Towards a Reconstruction of Poetics II, which also returns us to the
ancient "Tractatus Coislinianus"; and by Eco in The Name of the
Rose, where murder fails to prevent disclosure of the treatise (see
items 216 and 274 below). So the time seemed propitious to gather
and annotate the best that has been published about comedy in a
bibliography of larger scope than the one by E. H. Mikhail, Comedy
and Tragedy: A Bibliography of Critical Studies (Troy: Whitston,
1972), which included only about four hundred items. This book is
intended to provide a better guide through the maze of comic theory
and criticism than has hitherto existed.
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- Publication
- Language: English
- Date: 1987
- Keywords
- annotated bibliographies, comedic theory, comedic criticism, history of comedy