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Comedy in comparative literature : essays on Dante, Hoffman, Nietzsche, Wharton, Borges, and Cabrera Infante
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Comedy in comparative literature : essays on Dante, Hoffman, Nietzsche, Wharton, Borges, and Cabrera Infante

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The trumpets of Dante's Inferno / Kathleen Haley
Uncanny laughter: reworking Freud's theory of jokes with E.T.A. Hoffmann's 'The sandman' / Naomi Beeman
Signifying laughter: the comic style of Nietzsche's Die frohliche Wissenschaft / Adrian Switzer
The laughter of gods and devils: Edith Wharton and the Coen Brothers on deception, disappointment, and cosmic irony / Svetlana Rukhelman
Jorge Luis Borges: aesthetic constructs and the humanism of play / Natalya Sukhonos
Recovering laughter: corporeal follies in Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Tres tristes tigres / Kael Ashbaugh.

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Comedy in comparative literature : essays on Dante, Hoffman, Nietzsche, Wharton, Borges, and Cabrera Infante. ISBN 9780773414402. Published by Edwin Mellen Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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