[lit-ideas] Comedy and Tragedy
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Lit-Ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:43:46 -0500
Thinking about comedy and tragedy--how the genres
mirror the natural, pre-industrial cycles of
summer/feast and winter/famine. Tragedy reminds us
that winter is coming; comedy reminds us that
spring follows winter. Tragedy involves death
(crops die, leaves fall) and comedy involves
regeneration (marriage, germination of seeds,
leaves return).
Should I file this under "reinventing the wheel"?
Anyone know a work dealing with the comparison?
Suspecting the comparison goes back thousands of
years,
Eric
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