Melville and the Comic SpiritUsing elements of traditional Celtic lore, relates how Kate helps her stepsister Meghan to break the spell that has given her the head of a sheep. |
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... comedy , more literary in its origins , more sophisticated in its tone , more ulterior in its motives . This is the mode which enables the artist to increase the suggestive power of his comedy by enlarging the orbit of its implications ...
... comedy , more literary in its origins , more sophisticated in its tone , more ulterior in its motives . This is the mode which enables the artist to increase the suggestive power of his comedy by enlarging the orbit of its implications ...
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... comedy , of making his comedy operable on every level of his complex tale , from its placid , sunny surfaces down to its “ very pelvis . ” The face of Moby - Dick's comedy is of course its jocular- hedonic aspect . It is the lightest of ...
... comedy , of making his comedy operable on every level of his complex tale , from its placid , sunny surfaces down to its “ very pelvis . ” The face of Moby - Dick's comedy is of course its jocular- hedonic aspect . It is the lightest of ...
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... comedy and tragedy as matters of degree , rather than of kind , as in the French tradition . It is a hallmark of the Shakespearean tradition for notes of agony or merriment to intrude into scenes of essentially opposite emo- tional ...
... comedy and tragedy as matters of degree , rather than of kind , as in the French tradition . It is a hallmark of the Shakespearean tradition for notes of agony or merriment to intrude into scenes of essentially opposite emo- tional ...
Contents
Introduction I | 4 |
The Comic Matter II | 11 |
The Comic Manner | 31 |
Copyright | |
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