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The Ridiculous to the Delightful;

The Ridiculous to the Delightful; Comic Characters in Sidney's New Arcadia - The LeBaron Russell Briggs Prize Honors Essays in English

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780674768901
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 823.3
Language: English
Number of pages: 53
Weight: 91g
Height: 184mm
Width: 136mm
Spine width: 5mm