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    Playing the Girl: The Possibilities of Forster’s Domestic Comedy by Emma Karin Brandin

    Published 2024-12-01
    “…In A Room with a View and Howards End, the two novels that best represent his domestic comedy, Forster stages scenes and situations in which his female characters are expected to ‘play their part’ in order to uphold the rigid gender norms of Edwardian society. …”
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    The Effects of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors on Tanpinar’s The Time Regulation Institute by Sacide Akcan

    Published 2023-04-01
    “…The Time Regulation Institute has a special place among Tanpınar’s works in that it contains social satire and is a novel about cultural crisis. In this novel, Tanpınar benefited from both the general atmosphere as well as certain fictional features of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors. …”
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    La volonté balzacienne comme donnée formelle de La Comédie humaine by Yannick Roy

    Published 2010-05-01
    “…This quality can be said to be his will, understood here not as a subject matter but as an element of the form, resembling the sort of availability in which Jacques Rivière saw the essence of the adventure novel. Balzac’s method thus forces him to relinquish all attempts at embracing the totality of his Human Comedy, which he builds from the inside without ever seeking to control it.…”
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    La ville, la salle, la scène : les Siennoises et le théâtre by Marie-Françoise Piéjus

    Published 2022-12-01
    “…In order to honor ladies, the plot highlights heroines who, despite tribulations inspired by Alexandrian novels, affirm their fidelity to the man they love, and the comedies end with love marriages, offering to female spectators a utopian vision of their condition. …”
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    Intertextuality of the Personosphere as a Factor of Meta-Genre (Clifford Simak “Shakespeare’s Planet”) by Dan Paranyuk, Alyona Tychinina

    Published 2023-06-01
    “…Besides, the personosphere of a fantasy novel with several fictional narratives also includes the classic’s texts, such as “Hamlet”, “Twelfth Night”, “The End Praises the End”, “The Comedy of Errors”, “King Lear”, “Macbeth”, “Othello”, “Pericles”, “The Taming of the Shrew”, “Richard III”, and “Titus Andronicus”. …”
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    The Mystery of a Surname: On the Poetonym Dunchil in the Novel The Master and Margarita by Anatoly Arkadyevich Fomin

    Published 2025-07-01
    “…This article examines the surname Dunchil’, which belongs to a minor character in Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita. The study concludes that the name is of occasional and authorial origin and proposes a hypothesis regarding its derivation. …”
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    Textual and Visual Correspondence Between the Novel and the Film: The Epistolary Narrative of Love, Simon by Özgür Çalışkan

    Published 2022-10-01
    “…Love, Simon (2018) is an American comedy-drama film directed by Greg Berlanti and based on Becky Albertalli's novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (2015) about the email correspondence between Simon and another male student from his high school. …”
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    Motif of Deal with Devil in K. J. Wahlgren's Novel “The Personal File of Player Rubashov”: Literary and Cultural Context by E. A. Safron, S. S. Lebedev

    Published 2025-05-01
    “…It is shown that Wahlgren employs theatrical techniques in the novel, synthesizing high art (tragedy) with low art (comedy). …”
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    La représentation de la censure dans la série romanesque japonaise Library Wars : une lecture à la lueur de Fahrenheit 451 by Maxime Danesin

    Published 2017-06-01
    “…Multi-genre (dystopian, uchronian, love-comedy), written in a local media form – light novel –, it has been widely successful, earning the author the Seiun Award 2008 – the Japanese equivalent of the Hugo Award. …”
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    Satirical Frame of Mind: Ken Kalfus’s A Disorder Peculiar to the Country and the Literary Engagement with 9/11 by Katherina Dodou

    Published 2017-08-01
    “…Prompted by debates on the role of comedy in the USA after 9/11, the essay explores the use of satire as one important narrative strategy that emerged in the subgenre of the American 9/11 novel. …”
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    Gute Wörter, schwaches Gattungssignal. Differenzen zwischen Roman-Subgenres und Dramen mit Delta und signifikantem Wortschatz aufspü... by Friedrich Michael Dimpel

    Published 2022-11-01
    “…On one subcorpus, ›good words‹ are determined on the genres adventure novel, Bildungsromans, social novel, comedy, and tragedy; on a second subcorpus, they are evaluated. …”
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    English laughter in Polish. Problems with humour in the translations of works by Charles Dickens by Aleksandra Budrewicz

    Published 2024-12-01
    “…It examines the issue using the character Wilkins Micawber from the novel David Copperfield (1849–1850), considered one of Dickens's best comic creations. …”
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    Du bruit musical pour repenser l’esthétique hugolienne dans Les misérables de Tom Hooper by Sabrina Zouagui

    Published 2024-12-01
    “…In addition to this great abundance of literary registers such as the epic, the comic, the grotesque, the lyrical, the tragic, etc., this film presents a singular generic hybridity which places it halfway between the film adaptation, musical comedy and opera. In this article, we aim to reflect on the way in which the Hollywood adaptation of this film favored spectacle to the detriment of the simple story told, and this by transcending the sole narrative dimension of the novel towards a deployment of Hugo’s reflections of a political, historical, religious, philosophical, sociological, psychological nature. …”
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