Le Pi-Pa-Ki: Ou, L'Histoire Du Luth : Drame Chinois De Kao-Tong-Kia Représenté À Péking, En 1404 Avec Les Changements De Mao-Tseu... (French Edition)

For about three thousand years comedy has applied a welcome humanist perspective to the world’s religious beliefs and practices. From the ancient Greek comedies of Aristophanes, the famous poem by Lucretius, and dialogues of Cicero to early modern and Enlightenment essays and philosophical texts, together with the inherent skepticism about life after death in tragicomedies by Plautus, Shakespeare, Molière, and nineteenth-century novels by such as Dickens and Hugo, the literary critic and historian Alexander Welsh analyzes the prevalence of openness of mind and relieving good humor in Western thought. The Humanist Comedy concludes with close examination of a postmodern novel by the Nobel Prize winner José Saramago.

• | Author: Alexander Welsh
• | Publisher: Wentworth Press
• | Publication Date: May 27, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 308 pages
• | Language: French
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0300197519
• | ISBN-13: 9780300197518