The Comic Mode in English Literature: From the Middle Ages to Today
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The Comic Mode in English Literature: From the Middle Ages to Today
By (Author) Professor Murray Roston
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Continuum Publishing Corporation
27th October 2011
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Literary theory
Philosophy: aesthetics
827
Physical Properties
Paperback
288
Width 138mm, Height 216mm
Description
An introductory guide to comedy in English literature that systematically applies comic theory to a wide range of texts from Chaucer to Bridget Jones's Diary.
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Featured in the Times Higher Education Literature textbook round-up.
Author Bio
Murray Roston is Emeritus Professor in the Department of English at Bar Ilan University, Israel and Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, USA. Across a 40 year publication history, he has written on a wide variety of topics from Medieval to Contemporary literature.
