Toxic pastoral: comic failure and ironic nostalgia in contemporary british environmental theatre... However, I argue that two recent versions of the pastoral—Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem (2009) and Thomas Eccleshare’s Pastoral (2013)—provide examples of the vitality which literary comic modes can offer to thinking about ecological dilemmas....
Fossils and theories of evolution in gustave flaubert’s bouvard et pécuchet... Interestingly, he chose to write about the latest scientific theories and discoveries in a decidedly skeptical and comic mode, as Bouvard and Pécuchet examine a wide range of theories concerning the evolution of the Earth and of humankind....
Tragedy versus comedy: on why comedy is the equal of tragedy... High comedies, it will be argued, have complex narrative structures shaping audience responses underwriting the moral significance of the comic mode....
Le bizarre ordinaire... It studies the figures of variegation and its stakes: it contributes to the representation of reality or life, to its criticism on a comic mode, and to the expression of a pessimistic vision of existence
