A Demonstration of an Hypothesis of the Function of Irony in Comedy and Tragedy
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Authors
Clowers, David Robert
Issue Date
1964
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Thesis
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en_US
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to provide a demonstration of an
hypothesis. This demonstration is necessarily limited by my present
knowledge, but I hope nonetheless to give a broad outline of my
approach which will point to areas of further study.
I believe that I have uncovered an area not adequately considered
by the major theories of the comic. I assume that a continuum exists
between the comic and the tragic, a continuum structured and defined
by a perception of irony. In limiting this study to perception we
avoid the overworked area of cause and effect. For irony mediates
between the cause and the effect and, in so doing, becomes a special
kind of cause in its own right.
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iv, 57 p.
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