QUIZZICAL PLEASURES

Quizzical Pleasures



Quizzical Pleasures

Critical Summary

Referring to the 'Quizzical Pleasures' in Television Culture by John Fiske, this program focuses classical times and literary works that have been classified as belonging to general kinds which were variously defined. In publications the broadest partition is between verse, prose and drama, inside which there are farther partitions, for example tragedy and comical presentation inside the class of drama. Shakespeare mentioned satirically to classifications for example 'tragedy, comical presentation, annals, pastoral, pastoral-comical, historical-pastoral, tragical-historical, tragical-comical-historical-pastoral. Contemporary newspapers genres are inclined to concern more to exact types than to the universals of tragedy and comedy. Nowadays, ...