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LTPR 123
Comedy of sex on stage and screen (midterm)
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Literature
Undergraduate 4
05/07/2012

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Term
NEW COMEDY
Definition
  • heir to tragedy, late 3rd & 4th centuries
  • Greek
  • introduced by Eurepides - mundane naturalism
  • origin: cleverness
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JOKE

Definition
planned, performed, audience -superiority, incongruity, juxtaposition of opposites or irreconciables, psychic release of repression (agression, positional)
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LAUGHTER

Definition
purely physiological, simple, or more complex
Term

 



HUMOR

Definition
tolerance and acceptance of problems / triumph of narcissism / traumas are occasions to gain pleasure
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COMEDY

Definition

1. "gag-centered" 

2. "character centered" 

3. "plot-centered"

  • narrative structure / fewer jokes
  • ends in: happiness, harmony, ignoring problems & evil
  • part of "great centripetal movement of the world"
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