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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “professor eric weitz”
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  • A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity

    by Professor Andrew McConnell Stott, Professor Eric Weitz ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces the development of comedic performance and examines the different characteristics of Greek and Roman comedy. Although the origins of comedy are obscure, this study argues that comedic performances were at the heart of Graeco-Roman culture from around 486 BCE to the mid first century ... Read more

    $81.79 USD

  • A Cultural History of Comedy in the Middle Ages

    by Professor Andrew McConnell Stott, Professor Eric Weitz ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    Comedy and humor flourished in manifold forms in the Middle Ages. This volume, covering the period from 1000 to 1400 CE, examines the themes, practice, and effects of medieval comedy, from the caustic morality of principled satire to the exuberant improprieties of many wildly popular tales of sex and trickery. The analysis includes the most influential authors of the age, such as Chaucer, ... Read more

    $81.79 USD

  • A Cultural History of Comedy in the Early Modern Age

    by Professor Andrew McConnell Stott, Professor Eric Weitz ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    Drawing together scholars with a wide range of expertise across the early modern period, this volume explores the rich field of early modern comedy in all its variety. It argues that early modern comedy was shaped by a series of cultural transformations that included the emergence of the entertainment industry, the rise of the professional comedian, extended commentaries on the nature of comedy ... Read more

    $81.79 USD

  • A Cultural History of Comedy in the Modern Age

    by Professor Andrew McConnell Stott, Professor Eric Weitz ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    Drawing together contributions by scholars from a variety of fields, including theater, film and television, sociology, and visual culture, this volume explores the range and diversity of comedic performance and comic forms in the modern age. It covers a range of forms and examples from 1920 to the present day, including plays, film, television comedy, live comedy, and comedy on social media. It ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Empire

    by Professor Eric Weitz, Professor Andrew McConnell Stott ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    Drawing together contributions from scholars in a range of fields within 19th- and 20th-century cultural, literary, and theater studies, this volume provides a thorough and varied overview of the many forms comedy took in the 19th century. Given the earth-shattering cultural changes and political events that mark the decades between 1800 and 1920-shifting borders, socioeconomic upheaval, ... Read more

    $81.79 USD

  • A Cultural History of Comedy in the Age of Enlightenment

    by Professor Eric Weitz, Professor Andrew McConnell Stott ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    This volume highlights the variety of forms comedy took in England, with reference to developments in Europe, particularly France, during the European Enlightenment. It argues that comedy in this period is characterized by wit, satire, and humor, provoking both laughter and sympathetic tears. Comic expression in the Enlightenment reflects continuities and engagements with the comedy of previous ... Read more

    $81.79 USD

  • Theatre and Laughter

    by Professor Eric Weitz ...
    Series series Theatre And
    This stimulating introduction to laughter in theatre and performance examines laughter among actors, among audience, and the interaction between the two. Exploring the many uses and effects of laughter in theatre, Eric Weitz considers laughter as a tool of political resonance, as social commentary, and as one of the oldest rhetorical devices. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Cruelty & Laughter

    Forgotten Comic Literature and the Unsentimental Eighteenth Century

    by Simon Dickie ...
    Eighteenth-century British culture is often seen as polite and sentimental—the creation of an emerging middle class. Simon Dickie disputes these assumptions in Cruelty and Laughter, a wildly enjoyable but shocking plunge into the forgotten comic literature of the age. Beneath the surface of Enlightenment civility, Dickie uncovers a rich vein of cruel humor that forces us to recognize just how ... Read more

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  • Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature

    by Elizabeth Kantor ...
    What PC English professors don't want you to learn from . . .- Beowulf: If we don't admire heroes, there's something wrong with us- Chaucer: Chivalry has contributed enormously to women's happiness- Shakespeare: Some choices are inherently destructive (it's just built into the nature of things)- Milton: Our intellectual freedoms are Christian, not anti-Christian, in origin- Jane Austen: Most men ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

    Edited by John Richetti ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    In the past twenty years our understanding of the novel's emergence in eighteenth-century Britain has drastically changed. Drawing on new research in social and political history, the twelve contributors to this Companion challenge and refine the traditional view of the novel's origins and purposes. In various ways each seeks to show that the novel is not defined primarily by its realism of ... Read more

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  • Rogues and Early Modern English Culture

    Edited by Craig Dionne, Steve Mentz ...
    "Those at the periphery of society often figure obsessively for those at its center, and never more so than with the rogues of early modern England. Whether as social fact or literary fiction-or both, simultaneously-the marginal rogue became ideologically central and has remained so for historians, cultural critics, and literary critics alike. In this collection, early modern rogues represent the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800

    Edited by Jack Lynch ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, forty-four authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity--serious and satirical, public and private, by men and women, nobles and peasants, whether published in deluxe editions or sung on the streets. The ... Read more

    $41.39 USD