Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1977 - 5/31/1978

Funding Totals

$8,340.00 (approved)
$8,340.00 (awarded)


The "World Upside-Down": Emblem of Man's Search for Meaning

FAIN: FB-13209-77

M. Jean Klene
Corporation of Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN 46556-5001)

A Study of comedy from Aristophanes to Stoppard to investigate the “world upside down", a motif which is an emblem of the chaos with which one must deal, chaos in the world without as well as within. The 20th century question, of course, is a recognition of what constitutes a world "right side-up" or whether such a thing is possible