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The Dark Voyage and the Golden Mean Albert Cook (Brown University)

The Dark Voyage and the Golden Mean By Albert Cook (Brown University)

The Dark Voyage and the Golden Mean by Albert Cook (Brown University)


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Summary

In this sharply angled book of criticism, Albert Cook offers a new approach to comedy in literature. Breaking through narrow traditional categories and concepts, he enables the reader to broaden his range of reference and to examine comedy and comic works from fresh philosophical and critical perspectives.

The Dark Voyage and the Golden Mean Summary

The Dark Voyage and the Golden Mean: A Philosophy of Comedy by Albert Cook (Brown University)

Professor Cook develops his philosophical exploration of comedy from the ideas of the probable and the wonderful. These two profoundly different approaches to human experience imply the related poles of rationalism-idealism, society-individual, concept-symbol, and reason-imagination. In discussing the implications of these symbolic attitudes, Professor Cook casts new light on the nature of both tragedy and comedy, their subjects, goals, and techniques.

About Albert Cook (Brown University)

Albert Cook is Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and Classics at Brown University, where he has taught since 1978. Author, poet, and playwright, he is the author of the critical studies The Classic Line: A Study of Epic Poetry, Myth and Language, and Soundings: On Shakespeare, Modern Poetry, Plato, and Other Subjects; the poetry collections Adapt the Living, Modulars, and Delayed Answers; and the plays The Death of Trotsky and Recall. His articles and poetry have appeared in scores of periodicals.

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NLS9780393003574
9780393003574
0393003574
The Dark Voyage and the Golden Mean: A Philosophy of Comedy by Albert Cook (Brown University)
New
Paperback
WW Norton & Co
1966-04-01
196
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