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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"comic hero"”.
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The will of the people: Comedy and the comic persona in Shakespeare's sonnets
… to determine if the poems present speakers or heroes whose attitudes and preoccupations and powers of action and expression match Huizinga's and Frye's conceptions of il.QlliQ ludens and the comic hero, respectively. The study concludes that the voice of man the player and "Everyman" are …
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The Talus
<p>Falling from a high place into an unknown abyss of strange characters and even stranger events takes readers far further than Humpty Dumpty and into a cats-cradle of mystery and humor. Jonah Tinderwunkel, the protagonist, mistakenly cast a curse upon himself at the age of fourteen. Now, …
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Towards a philosophy of theatre inspired by Aristotle’s poetics and post-structuralist aesthetics in relation to three South African plays
… and Eudemian Ethics with which the tragic-comic hero and his Other are imbued or violate. The post-structuralist aesthetic as developed in the literary theory of the twentieth century is essentially the interaction of synchronic and diachronic language emerging from the signifiance and the …