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The Happy End of Comedy is an analysis of the most necessary of all comic conventions -- the happy ending. The book begins by assuming that the study of the ways three major playwrights brought their works to a close will reveal much about their conception of the artifice of theater and comedy and about their sense of human experience, which informs this artifice. Happy End is thus both a study of the uses and variations on a convention and a definition...

"We acknowledge and celebrate Jane Austen as the mother of the English realist novel, but have you ever wondered why she insists on giving her mature heroines the 'perfect happiness' that can only be realised in the Romance? Romancing Jane Austen asks the reader to consider Austen's happy endings as a 'prophetic' rather than a merely 'illusory' answer to the contradiction that feminine subjectivity represents for history. Austen is still the most...

A new recording with Riccardo Chailly, a top classical conductor, and Stefano Bollani, a top jazz pianist is an exciting programme focused on the magic of the 30s: a decade full of energy and creativity, in which several top classical composers were strongly influenced by such modern trends like jazz, tango, and fox-trot. The programme of Ravel, Stravinsky, Weill, and De Sabata features classical pieces with strong jazz influences: a feature that...