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The Comic Spirit: Boccaccio to Thomas Mann
The Comic Spirit Boccaccio to Thomas Mann Author:Bernard N. Schilling Giovanni Boccaccio, Henry Fielding, Charles Dickens, Israel Zangwill, Thomas Mann. — These classic authors were able to descern the many ways in which men are weak and absurd, always concluding with a sympathetic rather than a sharply critical attitude. Schilling shows how this attitude grows in strength proceeding from the amusement of Boccacc... more »io through the increasing comic depth of Fielding, Dockens, and Zangwill, until in Thomas Mann's _Buddenbrook's_ the author's sympathy with his comic creation reaches a point beyond which it cannot go without shadowing into its opposite.« less