r***n 发帖数: 298 | 1 Whatever poetry may be, criticism had best be comic. [...]
The comic frame should enable people to be observers of
themselves, while acting.
- Kenneth Burke, "Attitudes Toward History" (1937)
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George Meredith, "An Essay on Comedy" (excerpted)
Good Comedies are such rare productions, that notwithstanding the
wealth of our literature in the Comic element, it would not occupy
us long to run over the English list. If they are brought to the
test I shall propose, very reputable C |
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