The Development of English Humor, Teil 1Duke University Press, 1952 - 421 Seiten |
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... intellectual influence is so generally known that it may be taken for granted . We have here only to ask ourselves how far such an influence can have acted , favorably or unfavorably , upon the growth of Eng- lish humor . It seems clear ...
... intellectual influence is so generally known that it may be taken for granted . We have here only to ask ourselves how far such an influence can have acted , favorably or unfavorably , upon the growth of Eng- lish humor . It seems clear ...
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... intellectual irony . Then , and then only , was the animating spirit of English humor , which had already been fully alive in Chaucer , finally exalted to its creative strength . The development that followed through centuries of ...
... intellectual irony . Then , and then only , was the animating spirit of English humor , which had already been fully alive in Chaucer , finally exalted to its creative strength . The development that followed through centuries of ...
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... intellectual subtlety , rushes madly into the ironical anticlimax of his dis- appointment and disgrace . He must be no more now to the spectators , than a clown who has outlived his welcome , and a conspicuous example of the cheapness ...
... intellectual subtlety , rushes madly into the ironical anticlimax of his dis- appointment and disgrace . He must be no more now to the spectators , than a clown who has outlived his welcome , and a conspicuous example of the cheapness ...
Inhalt
FOREWORD TO PART I | 2 |
MEDIEVAL FRENCH HUMOR | 21 |
Part II | 24 |
Urheberrecht | |
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