艾布拉姆斯(M. H. Abrams,1912— ),当代欧美著名文学理论家和批评家,康奈尔大学1912级荣休教授。代表作品有《镜与灯》《文学术语词典》《诺顿英国文学选读》。
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"Some playwrights living in totalitarian regimes used absurdist techniques to register social and political protest. See, for example, Largo Desolato(1987) by Czech Vaclav Harvel and The Island(1973), a collaboration by the South African writers Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona."
"The slogan "ForGod, for country, and for Yale!" is bathetic because it moves to intended climax in its rhetorical order, but to unintended descent in its reference–at least for someone who is not a Yale graduate."