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Liberty, laughter, and tears; reflections on the relations of comedy and tragedy to human freedom

Print Book, English, [1968]
Northern Illinois University Press, De Kalb, [1968]
x, 402 pages 23 cm
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I. Liberty, the first and the last thing
II. Beauty, use, and liberty
III. Laughter, tears and selfhood
IV. Laughter triumphant: 1
V. Laughter triumphant: 2
VI. Laughter triumphant and Erasmus
VII. Laughter and tears among the ancient Greeks
VIII. Doctor Francois Rabelais' pantagruelsim
IX. Pascal, Racine, Moliere
X. Laughter and tears of the English enlightenment: Jonathan Swift
XI. Laughter and tears of the enlightenment: Alexander Pope
XII. Laughter and tears of then enlightenment: William Hogarth
XIII. Voltaire: Jean Qui Pleure et Qui Rit
XIV. Free man laughing: Benjamin Franklin
XV. Destiny and joie de vivre: Mark Twain
XVI. As of the present age
XVII. Liberty of the tortured life: Dostoevsky
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