Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "comedy"
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Comic Belief: Religious Irreverence and Irreverent Religion in Cold War America
(2023-01-18)“Comic Belief” identifies evolving standards of humor as both reflections and engines of the cultural changes that reconfigured American institutional Christianity in the half-century following World War II. It contends ... -
Good Fooling: Modality and Linguistic Action in Shakespeare's Comedies
(2013-02-08)This dissertation examines the role of modal verbs and rhetoric in the creation of Shakespeare's comic action. I argue that by focusing on the characters' uses of language in these plays, we can recover a sense of subjectivity ...