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Comic Tragedy

Comic Tragedy is a dramatic mode within Absurdist Drama that formally combines the structural and thematic elements of tragedy with comic mechanisms, thereby subverting conventional genre boundaries by eliciting both pathos and laughter through the absurdity of existential predicaments.

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78

Authors

23

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2017–2026

2

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Publications

64

Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience

Vassilis Saroglou, Peter L. Berger · Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion · 1998 · 188 citations

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Comic business: theatricality, dramatic technique, and performance contexts of Aristophanic comedy

Choice Reviews Online · 2007 · 159 citations

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Cruelty and laughter: forgotten comic literature and the unsentimental eighteenth century

Choice Reviews Online · 2012 · 103 citations

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:<i>Comic Women, Tragic Men, A Study of Gender and Genre in Shakespeare</i>

Rudolph P. Almasy · Sixteenth Century Journal · 1983 · 94 citations

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From ethology to aesthetics: Evolution as a theoretical paradigm for research on laughter, humor, and other comic phenomena

James E. Caron · Humor - International Journal of Humor Research · 2002 · 86 citations

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Authors

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  1. PL
    Peter L. Berger

    Boston University, United States

    2 publications · 207 citations

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  2. HL
    Hàrry Levin

    Cornell University, United States

    2 publications · 40 citations

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  3. JG
    Justina Gregory

    Smith College, United States

    1 publications · 41 citations

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  4. EC
    Edward Capps

    1 publications · 23 citations

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  5. RK
    Riikka Kuusisto

    University of Helsinki, Finland

    1 publications · 30 citations

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Institutions

23

  1. Universidade La Salle

    Canoas, Brazil

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    99 citations

  2. University of Georgia

    Athens, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  3. University at Albany, State University of New York

    Albany, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    34 citations

  4. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande

    Rio Grande, Brazil

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    33 citations

  5. The University of Melbourne

    Melbourne, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    26 citations

  6. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

    Canberra, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  7. Manchester Metropolitan University

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    19 citations

  8. Purdue University West Lafayette

    West Lafayette, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    25 citations

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Venues

  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 8 publications · 416 citations

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  2. The New England Quarterly

    3 publications · 53 citations

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  3. Comparative drama

    2 publications · 26 citations

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  4. The American Journal of Philology

    AJP · 2 publications · 59 citations

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  5. The Yearbook of English Studies

    2 publications · 37 citations

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