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Books on: human comedy

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The Divine and Human Comedy of Andrew M. Greeley

Book by Allienne R. Becker; Greenwood Press, 2000

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Balzac, Honore de--1799-1850--Influence, Catholic Church--in literature, Catholics in literature, Christian fiction, American--History and criticism, Christianity and literature--United States--History--20th century, Greeley, Andrew M.--1928---Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

human comedy that depicts the people of God as saints...the chancery office provides much of the human comedy in the book. The divine comedy is...God. Despite his language, which is very human and at times quite earthy, but always effective...
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Balzac and the Human Comedy

Book by Philippe Bertault, Richard Monges; New York University Press, 1963

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Balzac, Honore de--1799-1850, Drama

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Baudraye of Sancerre! Well, now! Human sentiments, and avarice more than...Systematic Return of the Characters of the Human Comedy Presses Francaises, 1927 . Each...The Reappearing Characters in the Human Comedy", Revue dHistoire litteraire...
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In Praise of Comedy: A Study in Its Theory and Practice

Book by James Feibleman; Russell & Russell, 1962

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Comedy

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...responsible for the apprehension of comedy; but comedy subjectively...that, as far as we know, human beings are the only one to...comedy does not make comedy a human affair; it makes only the appreciation of comedy of human beings human. Comedy is...
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A Concept of Dramatic Genre and the Comedy of a New Type: Chess, Literature, and Film

Book by V. Ulea; Southern Illinois University Press, 2002

Subjects:

European Drama (Comedy)--History And Criticism, European Drama (Tragedy)--History And Criticism, Literary Form

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...that survival in comedy implies a survival...this operate in the comedies mentioned above including Balzacs Human Comedy that end in disaster...relevant to ancient comedy, since dramatic...for some ancient comedies, such as Aristophanes...
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The Ways of the World: Comedy and Society

Book by Robert Bechtold Heilman; University of Washington Press, 1978

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Comedy

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...rejective statements. The realm of the human comedy is obviously something between the...circumstances and their natures. Eliots comedy, then, is about comic and tragic...into a nonworldly mode of action. Comedy characteristically ignores this option...

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Journal Articles on: human comedy

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The Designs of Faulkner's "yoknapatawpha Saga" and Balzac's Human Comedy

Journal article by Jacques Pothier; The Faulkner Journal, Vol. 13, 1997

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Balzac, Honore de (1799-1850), Comparative studies, Faulkner, William (1897-1962), Literary criticism, Source studies

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...yoknapatawpha Saga" and Balzacs Human Comedy by Jacques Pothier ALL THE BIOGRAPHERS...difference between Balzacs Human Comedy and Faulkners Yoknapatawpha saga...new pride. A Mississippian "Human Comedy" would address the demand for sectional...
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Communities in Conflict: Sand's Human Comedy

Journal article by David A. Powell; The Romanic Review, Vol. 96, 2005

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Criticism, French literature--Criticism and interpretation, Le Secretaire intime (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Les Maitres mosaistes (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Literary criticism, Literary techniques, Sand, George--Works, Social structure--Portrayals

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Communities in Conflict: Sands Human Comedy. by David A. Powell Sociologists...2) Besides linguistic choices, human behavior persistently demonstrates...just of creativity but also of a human ideal, a "Mensch." As for non...
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Menaechmi and the Renaissance of Comedy

Journal article by Richard F. Hardin; Comparative Drama, Vol. 37, 2003

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Comedies (Plays)--Criticism and interpretation, Comedies (Plays)--Evaluation, Play--Criticism and interpretation, Play--Evaluation

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...in the revival of New Comedy by Ariosto, in almost all of whose comedies she becomes a "silent...manipulation of the human sense of identity...spread a new kind of comedy throughout Europe...interest in the new comedy long after it had lost...owned forty-eight comedies in Italian, none in...unrelenting ridicule of human folly. As for England...
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Encountering Plautus in the Renaissance: A Humanist Debate on Comedy

Journal article by Richard F. Hardin; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, 2007

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Comedies (Plays)--History, Dramatists--Criticism and interpretation, European literature--Criticism and interpretation, European literature--Renaissance, 1450-1600, Plautus--Criticism and interpretation, Playwrights--Criticism and interpretation, Renaissance literature--Criticism and interpretation, Renaissance writers--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...in 1508 and renowned in the comedies of Machiavelli. Praising...Cassaria, the first of these comedies, a member of the aristocratic...half of which are not in the comedies of Terence." (5) The remark...persons measuring-stick for comedy. He would not be so a century...of mimesis: it "imitates human actions that are rather base...
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Comedy among the Modernists: P.G. Wodehouse and the Anachronism of Comic Form

Journal article by Laura Mooneyham; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 40, 1994

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Authors, English--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Comedy--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Wodehouse, P.G.--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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...or, in more serious comedies, flaws and self-imposed...But eventually in a comedy all such bonds are cut...in serious literature human existence must be presented...possibility of a vision of human destiny as intelligible...one sense the ends of comedies make a providential...It is not just that comedies have happy endings...the whole design of comedy lets us know that no...

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Magazine Articles on: human comedy

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Human Comedy

Magazine article by Hugo Barnacle; New Statesman, Vol. 135, January 23, 2006

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Books--Book reviews, The Diviners (Book)--Book reviews

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Human Comedy. by Hugo Barnacle The Diviners Rick Moody Faber Faber, 567pp, pounds sterling12.99 Rick Moody is...nationwide. And elsewhere, the ever-branching sub-plots of the novel give a fine conspectus of the human comedy.
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The Human Comedy: Portraits by Red Grooms

Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 132, August 2003

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Grooms, Red--Criticism and interpretation, Grooms, Red--Exhibitions, Portraits--Criticism and interpretation, Portraits--Exhibitions

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The Human Comedy: Portraits by Red Grooms. In reconciling the sophistication of high...Department, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Fla., where "The Human Comedy: Portraits by Red Grooms" will be on view through Aug. 24. (It...
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Con: Court's Ruling Is Deeply Flawed Comedy of Errors

Magazine article by Bruce Fein; Human Events, Vol. 54, July 24, 1998

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Attorneys, Convictions, Court decisions, Testimony

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Con: Courts Ruling Is Deeply Flawed Comedy of Errors by Bruce Fein Former Vice President Thomas Riley Marshall...for the interim. But let us now feast on a few of Singletons comedy of errors sans the acidity of Popes versifying. Federal law...
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Pedalling the Pacific: Two Naked Men in a Pedal Boat in the Middle of the World's Largest Ocean-It Sounds like a Comedy Sketch, but Was Part of a Bold Global Circumnavigation Attempt Using Only Human Power. Stevie Smith Describes the Equipment He and His Companion Employed on the Pacific Leg of Their Epic 13-Year Voyage

Magazine article by Stevie Smith; Geographical, Vol. 80, November 2008

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Ocean travel--Social aspects, Travelers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Travelers--Social aspects, Voyages and travels--Social aspects

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...Largest Ocean-It Sounds like a Comedy Sketch, but Was Part of a Bold...Circumnavigation Attempt Using Only Human Power. Stevie Smith Describes...circumnavigate the planet using only human power. And so, Expedition...than oars to cross an ocean by human power is better. The two are...
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Screwballs of the Silver Screen: A Treasured Comedy Genre Turns 70: The 1934 Releases of "It Happened One Night" and "Twentieth Century" Launched Hollywood into an Era of Madcap Zaniness That Endures to This Day

Magazine article by Wes D. Gehring; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 132, March 2004

Subjects:

Capra, Frank--Works, Comedy films--Criticism and interpretation, Comedy films--History, Comedy films--Social aspects, Comedy movies--Criticism and interpretation, Comedy movies--History, Comedy movies--Social aspects, Filmmakers--Works, Hawks, Howard--Works, It Happened One Night (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation, Motion picture industry--History, Movie directors--Works, Movie industry--History, Twentieth Century (Motion picture)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Though not a screwball comedy per se, there was much about...Powell is more vulnerable, more human, and decidedly funnier than...populist, not screwball, comedies. As critic Jim Leach observes...positive strategy in screwball comedy is to accept the all-pervasive...manifestation of the normal human values with which society has...

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Newspaper Articles on: human comedy

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SHOCK HORROR! ANDY PLAYS A HUMAN; Serkis Has Been Gollum and King Kong but Now He's in a British Gore Comedy

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), March 7, 2008

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Serkis, Andy

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SHOCK HORROR! ANDY PLAYS A HUMAN; Serkis Has Been Gollum and...but Now Hes in a British Gore Comedy. Byline: By Brian McIver HES...who likes to reap crops and human body parts with his trusty tools...an actor and director and a human being, he is a real guiding...
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Double 'Errors' in Shakespeare Comedy

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 19, 2005

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Elizabethan drama, The Comedy of Errors (Play)

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Double Errors in Shakespeare Comedy. Byline: Jayne Blanchard...twins-fraught farce "The Comedy of Errors." The set design...I think they fit so well in Comedy of Errors, " he explains...poetry and perceptions about human existence amid the farcical...
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Bardic Globetrotters; Shakespeare's Globe Is Hitting the Road to Bring the Classic Comedy of the Bard to Wales. Karen Price Discovered How Theatregoers of All Ages Are Loving This Revived Tradition

Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), August 28, 2010

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The Comedy of Errors (Play)

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the Road to Bring the Classic Comedy of the Bard to Wales. Karen...new take on the Bards classic Comedy of Errors is reviving the touring...purposesandmanicslapstick, The Comedy Of Errors is a hectic and hilarious...a bygone age, Shakespeares comedies are still loved todaybecause...comes froman observation of human behaviour. "Human behaviour...
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Romantic Comedy

Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), July 24, 2009

Subjects:

Comedy films, Comedy movies, Reynolds, Ryan, Teyte, Maggie

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Romantic Comedy. The Proposal (1hr 47 min...Fletchers screwball romantic comedy, which proves that the path...including a fluffy romantic comedy with Hugh Grant, supernatural...nuts and the full spectrum of human emotions," he replies tersely...
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Farewell French & Saunders; New Beginings: French Has Just Written Her Autobiography:"Comedy Tart" Saunders Would like to Write a Film

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 15, 2008

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Comedy films, Comedy movies, Saunders, Jennifer

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Has Just Written Her Autobiography:"Comedy Tart" Saunders Would like to Write a...dreaded interviewing Britains best-loved comedy duo. I could see it turning into one...met Rik Mayall, Alexei Sayle and Ade. Comedy was the new rocknroll. Soon the Comic...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: human comedy

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Novel

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...imaginative, passionate visions of human love. Robert Louis Stevenson revived...and poignant. Honore de Balzacs Human Comedy (1829 47), on the other hand...for their powerful statements of human and cosmic problems. If Leo Tolstoys...
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Saroyan, William

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...1939; Pulitzer Prize), My Hearts in the Highlands (1939), and The Cave Dwellers (1957); novels, including The Human Comedy (1942; he won a 1943 Academy Award for the screenplay he adapted from the book) and Boys and Girls Together (1963...
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Balzac, HonorÉ De

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...married the Polish Countess Evelina Hanska, with whom he had conducted a romantic correspondence for 18 years. See The Human Comedy (with introductions by G. Saintsbury, 40 vol., 1895 98); Balzacs Letters to His Family, 1809 1850 (ed. by...
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Drama, Western

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...classical balance between the human and divine, the realistic...sole literary remains of Old Comedy are the plays of Aristophanes...no extant examples of Middle Comedy, it is conjectured that the...Most extant examples of New Comedy are from the works of Menander ; these comedies are realistic and elegantly...
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Murakami, Haruki

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...includes elements of great moral seriousness as well as passages of whimsy and slapstick comedy. His central theme has been charactized as the elusiveness of human identity. Murakamis first novel was Hear the Wind Sing (1979, tr. 1987). Since...

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