Comedy and America: The Lost World of Washington IrvingAssociated Faculty Press, Incorporated, 1976 - 205 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
absurd American literature Amsterdam artistic associated attempt bachelor battle beginning breeches burlesque comedy chapter character Cockaigne Cockloft Corrector dancing devoted Diedrich Knickerbocker Dutch eighteenth century England English essay Evergreen example fiction French Gargantua Gotham Hawthorne Hoppingtots Hudibras Hudson humor humorist Humphry Clinker Ichabod Crane imagination Irving's Irving's American Irving's History Jefferson Knickerbocker's Langstaff laughter lesque letters Linkum literary logocracy madness Merry Mount mode modern moral Mustapha myth narrator nature nose original paradise pedant period Peter Stuyvesant philosopher play political satire Port-Folio present Rabelais reader reign Rip Van Winkle Salmagundi scatology Scriblerus seems self-conscious sense Sentimental Journey serial sketch Sleepy Hollow Spec Spectator spirit spleen Sterne Sterne's story Stuyvesant syllogism tale theme tion tradition treated Tristram Shandy Twiller vision voice Walter Shandy Washington Irving whimsical William Wizard Wouter Van Twiller writing Yankee York