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Chargement... The Humanist Comedypar Alexander Welsh
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A review of humanism in literature, particularly comedy, since the classical times. A large focus is on the classical writers such as Lucretius and Epicurus; we then jump forward to the time of Spinoza. The book is well organized and flows nicely until we get to the post-Shakespeare period; then it becomes spotty and incomplete, and the author's thoughts are not well organized. He also loses on rating for failing to cover Voltaire; he mentions Voltaire and Hume, but that is the only mention Voltaire gets, while he engages in depth with some people who probably belong more tangentially to the group he is discussing than Voltaire. In addition, he only lightly touches on GB Shaw, basically mentioning him in a short sentence, and then dismissing him as an ideologue, though many of the others that he does cover in detail could be given a similar epithet (in fact, probably most). Overall, decent reading, but with quite a few downsides. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world's religious beliefs and practices. From the ancient Greek comedies of Aristophanes, the famous poem by Lucretius, and dialogues of Cicero to early modern and Enlightenment essays and philosophical texts, together with the inherent skepticism about life after death in tragicomedies by Plautus, Shakespeare, Molière, and nineteenth-century novels by such as Dickens and Hugo, the literary critic and historian Alexander Welsh analyzes the prevalence of openness of mind and relieving good humor in Western thought. The Humanist Comedy concludes with close examination of a postmodern novel by the Nobel Prize winner Jose Saramago"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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