The Tragic Comedians
Author : George Meredith
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 1881
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Author : George Meredith
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 15,28 MB
Release : 1881
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Author : George Meredith
Publisher :
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 1912
Category : Comedy
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Author : John Morreall
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 1999-05-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1438413629
CHOICE2000 Outstanding Academic Title Comedy, tragedy, and religion have been intertwined since ancient Greece, where comedy and tragedy arose as religious rituals. This groundbreaking book analyzes the worldviews of tragedy and comedy, and compares each with the world's major religions. Morreall contrasts the tragic and comic along twenty psychological and social dimensions and uses these to analyze both Eastern and Western traditions. Although no religion embodies a purely tragic or comic vision of life, some are mostly tragic and others mostly comic. In Eastern religions, Morreall finds no robust tragic vision but does find significant comic features, especially in Taoism and Zen Buddhism. In the Western monotheistic tradition, there are some comic features in the early Bible, but by the late Hebrew Bible, the tragic vision dominates. Two millennia have done little to reverse that tragic vision in Judaism. Christianity, on the other hand, has shown both tragic and comic features—Morreall writes of the Calvinist vision and the Franciscan vision—but in the contemporary era comic features have come to dominate. The author also explores Islam, and finds it has neither a comic nor a tragic vision. And, among new religions, those which emphasize the personal self come close to having an exclusively comic vision of life.
Author : Anthony Griffith
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 23,72 MB
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0785219811
How do you keep going when your world is falling apart? Discover the powerful story of stand-up comic Anthony Griffith and how to navigate grief through persistence, faith, humor and love. Now available in trade paper. Just as Anthony’s career in stand-up comedy launched him onto the stage of The Tonight Show, he and his wife Brigitte faced an unimaginable personal nightmare: their two-year-old daughter, Brittany Nicole, was dying from cancer. While Anthony performed under bright lights, he struggled not to succumb to the darkness of losing a child. In this stirring memoir, Anthony Griffith and his wife of more than thirty years, Brigitte Travis-Griffin, share the powerful story of living between life’s funniest moments and its most heartbreaking tragedies. With humor and deep insights into the human spirit, Behind the Laughter explores Anthony’s life and career as well as the bonds between parent and child and husband and wife. The surprising twists along Anthony’s path highlights experiencing God’s sustaining presence in the darkest moments as well as the sweetest dreams. Behind the Laughter explores: Powerful, relatable emotions and lessons that are universal and inspiring New perspectives on difficult topics that everyone can relate to The power of finding humor in spite of adversity Find true inspiration along with laugh-out-loud humor in this remarkable story of resilience and grace in the face of loss.
Author : George Meredith
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Fiction
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In this novel, George Meredith explores the fantastical nature of human behavior through the lens of a tragic love story. The characters, who seem larger than life, are not inventions of fiction but real creatures whose passion and flaws drive them towards a devastating end. The novel is not only a gripping tale of love, betrayal, and revenge but also a study of human nature that teaches us valuable lessons about life.
Author : George Meredith
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 19,35 MB
Release : 2023-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368331590
Reproduction of the original.
Author : George Meredith
Publisher : Litres
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 35,48 MB
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 5041629617
Author : George Meredith
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 MB
Release : 1881
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Author : George Meredith
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 1912
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Author : Patrice A. Oppliger
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,14 MB
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3030372146
This book focuses on the “dark side” of stand-up comedy, initially inspired by speculations surrounding the death of comedian Robin Williams. Contributors, those who study humor as well as those who perform comedy, join together to contemplate the paradoxical relationship between tragedy and comedy and expose over-generalizations about comic performers’ troubled childhoods, addictions, and mental illnesses. The book is divided into two sections. First, scholars from a variety of disciplines explore comedians’ onstage performances, their offstage lives, and the relationship between the two. The second half of the book focuses on amateur and lesser-known professional comedians who reveal the struggles they face as they attempt to hone successful comedy acts and likable comic personae. The goal of this collection is to move beyond the hackneyed stereotype of the sad clown in order to reveal how stand-up comedy can transform both personal and collective tragedies by providing catharsis through humor.