The Development of English Humor, Teil 1Duke University Press, 1952 - 421 Seiten |
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... nature of things why the wrong impression should have been created , and often expressed , that humor was a birthright of the British . It is not ; but they evince in their constitution a somewhat special affinity with the temper of ...
... nature of things why the wrong impression should have been created , and often expressed , that humor was a birthright of the British . It is not ; but they evince in their constitution a somewhat special affinity with the temper of ...
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... nature of the very notion of humor ; but there are other causes to it , rooted in the mind and temper of the playwright himself . It is a fact , on the one hand , that Mas- singer was not endowed by nature with a gift of comedy . He is ...
... nature of the very notion of humor ; but there are other causes to it , rooted in the mind and temper of the playwright himself . It is a fact , on the one hand , that Mas- singer was not endowed by nature with a gift of comedy . He is ...
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... nature above its level ; humour acts a contrary part , and equally depresses it . " 11 It might be an explanation that by " depressing human nature , ' Goldsmith meant using the method of persistent understate- ment and of realistic ...
... nature above its level ; humour acts a contrary part , and equally depresses it . " 11 It might be an explanation that by " depressing human nature , ' Goldsmith meant using the method of persistent understate- ment and of realistic ...
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FOREWORD TO PART I | 2 |
MEDIEVAL FRENCH HUMOR | 21 |
Part II | 24 |
Urheberrecht | |
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