Read Comedy: 'An Essay on Comedy' by George Meredith. 'Laughter' by Henri Bergson

Link Here:https://centerofsound.blogspot.com/?oak=0801823277

Casting a critical eye on comic works throughout the ages, Meredith finds that the most skilled masters of the comic art&#8213 Aristophanes, Rabelais, Voltaire, Cervantes, Fielding, Moli&#232 re&#8213 used comedy to grasp the essence of humanity. Comedy, according to Meredith's theory, serves an important moral and social function: it redeems us from our posturings, stripping away pride, arrogance, complacency, and other sins.Bergson's essay looks at comedy within a wider field of vision, focusing on laughter and on what makes us laugh. His study examines comic characters and comic acts, comedy in literature and in children's games, comedy as high art and base entertainment, to develop a psychological and philosophical theory of the mainsprings of comedy.Complementing the work of Meredith and Bergson in Wylie Sypher's appendix, as essay that d

New tracks tagged #Comedy: