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Comedy, Irony, Parody

Comparative Criticism, Volume 10 (1988). Edited by E.S. Shaffer.

Part I: Comedy, Irony, Parody
  • Michael Silk, The autonomy of comedy
  • T.L.S. Sprigge, Schopenhauer and Bergson on laughter
  • Peter Brand, Disguises in Renaissance comedy
  • Bernard Harrison, The defence of wit: Sterne, Locke and the particular
  • Christine Brooke-Rose, Ill wit and good humour: women's comedy and the canon
  • Jane H.M. Taylor, The Danse macabre: reflections on black humour
  • Michael Wood, Lolita in wonderland


Part II: Translations
Prize-winners in the BCLA Translation Competition (First equal, 1985)
  • Guido Gozzano, 'A History of 500 Vanessas' and other poems from Lepidoptera. Translated with an introduction, 'Gozzano's Butterflies', by John Gatt
  • Yves Bonnefoy, Readiness, ripeness: Hamlet, Lear. Translated by Martin Sorrell
  • Valla-Ljóts saga. An Icelandic family saga. Translated with an introduction and notes by Paul Acker


Part III: Essay Reviews
  • Brecht in Hong Kong. A review by Elinor Shaffer and Karl-Heinz Schoeps
  • Stephen Bann, Painting, politics and iconophobia: review of John Barrell, 'The Body of the Public': The Political Theory of Painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt
  • Clive Scott, Baudelaire among the English: on Patricia Clements, Baudelaire and the English Tradition and Wolfgang Iser, Walter Pater: The Aesthetic Moment
  • Michael Lynn-George, 'What seas, what shores': Homeric studies after orality. On G.S. Kirk, The Iliad: A Commentary, Vol. l
  • Douwe Fokkema, American Postmodernism in Germany: a review of reception
  • Arthur Terry, 'Between the one and the many': Claudio Guillén on comparative literature


Bibliographies
  • Books and periodicals received. Compiled by Mark Ogden
  • The publications of Michael Hamburger: a bibliography. Compiled by Ralf Jeutter, with an introduction, 'Man of Letters', by David Constantine
  • Bibliography of critical studies on comedy and commedia dell'arte. Compiled by Robert L. Erenstein
  • Bibliography of comparative literature in Britain and Ireland 1985. Compiled by Joseph Th. Leerssen


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