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The Ridiculous to the Delightful: Comic Characters in Sidney’s New Arcadia
Harvard University Press, 1974 Paper: 978-0-674-76890-1 Library of Congress Classification PR2342.A6R4 Dewey Decimal Classification 823.3
ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Sir Philip Sidney’s comic technique, in particular the comic characters in the second version of his pastoral romance, is the subject of this ably written essay. Robert Nicholas Reeves begins with a re-examination of comic theory in Sidney’s Defense of Poesy, and proceeds to a reading of the humorous in the Arcadia as a happy kind of moral teaching. He discusses devices employed—irony, ridicule, deflation—and the relation of the low comic figures to the delightful elements of the main plot. See other books on: Arcadia | Characters and characteristics in literature | Comic, The, in literature | Country life in literature | Humor See other titles from Harvard University Press |
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The Ridiculous to the Delightful: Comic Characters in Sidney’s New Arcadia
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Harvard University Press, 1974
Paper: 978-0-674-76890-1
Paper: 978-0-674-76890-1
Sir Philip Sidney’s comic technique, in particular the comic characters in the second version of his pastoral romance, is the subject of this ably written essay. Robert Nicholas Reeves begins with a re-examination of comic theory in Sidney’s Defense of Poesy, and proceeds to a reading of the humorous in the Arcadia as a happy kind of moral teaching. He discusses devices employed—irony, ridicule, deflation—and the relation of the low comic figures to the delightful elements of the main plot.
ABOUT THIS BOOK
