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• Publisher : SUNY Press
• File Size : 51,9 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 1999

Explicates the worldviews of comedy and tragedy, and analyzes world religions, finding some to be more comic, others more tragic.

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 28 July 2017

To understand comedy is to understand humanity, for the comic sense is central to what it means to be human. Nearly all the major issues with which human beings have

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 34,9 Mb
• Release Date : 26 July 2012

Comedy is both relative, linked to a time and culture, and universal, found pervasively across time and culture. The Hebrew Bible contains comedy of this relative, yet universal nature. Melissa

• Publisher : Lexington Books
• File Size : 37,6 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 2024

Stemming from Harvard University's Carl Newell Jackson Lectures, Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood's Tragedy and Athenian Religion sets out a radical reexamination of the relationship between Greek tragedy and religion. Based on a

• Publisher : State University of New York Press
• File Size : 29,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 May 2021

No philosopher has treated the subject of tragedy and comedy in as original and searching a manner as G. W. F. Hegel. His concern with these genres runs throughout both

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 01 April 2014

The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy marks the first comprehensive introduction to and reference work for the unified study of ancient comedy. From its birth in Greece to

• Publisher : Springer Nature
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• Release Date : 12 January 2021

This handbook addresses the methodological problems and theoretical challenges that arise in attempting to understand and represent humour in specific historical contexts across cultural history. It explores problems involved in

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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• Release Date : 02 August 2018

Re-examines Aristophanes' engagement with Greek religion by studying his dramatization of traditional stories of religious experiences.

• Publisher : Canon Press & Book Service
• File Size : 41,7 Mb
• Release Date : 16 June 2024

In this short but stimulating work, Peter Leithart draws upon insights from history, theology, philosophy, and literature to connect two of the most glorious and unique truths of Christianity its

• Publisher : SUNY Press
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• Release Date : 01 January 1995

Simone Weil's supernaturalist interpretations of tragedy challenge not only the philosophical skepticism but also the religious rationalism characteristic of the modern age. This book boldly points out a supernaturalist alternative