Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Monologues, Epigrams, Epitaphs and Parodies
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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The United States Catalog
Author: Mary BurnhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1612
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Detroit Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 530
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Bulletin
Author: Omaha Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Dramatic Index
Author: Library Bulletin
Author: Somerville Public Library (Mass.).Publisher:
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Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Legacy of the Wisecrack
Author: Eddie TafoyaPublisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 1599424959
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Despite the claim of many a Borscht Belt comic that he is a practitioner of "the world's second-oldest professsion," stand-up comedy is a young and distinctly American literary form. It was not until the last decades of the nineteenth century when, enabled by unprecedented prosperity and the right to free expression, that monologists began appearing in American vaudeville halls. Yet even though it has since become an entertainment industry mainstay, stand-up comedy has received precious little scholarly attention. The Legacy of the Wisecrack: Stand-up Comedy as the Great American Literary Form looks at the theory of stand-up comedy, its literary dimensions, and its distinctly American qualities as it provides a detailed history of the forces that shaped it. The study concludes with a look at the works of specific comedians such as Steven Wright, whose three decades of performances comprise a single picaresque tale, and Richard Pryor, whose 1982 masterpiece Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip serves as modern America's answer to Dante Aligheri's epic poem, Inferno. The result is one of the first serious treatments of stand-up comedy as a literary form.
The Dramatic Index for ...
Author: Frederick Winthrop FaxonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Issues for 1912-16, 1919- accompanied by an appendix: The Dramatic books and plays (in English) (title varies slightly) This bibliography was incorporated into the main list in 1917-18.
Epitaph Culture in the West
Author: Karl Siegfried GuthkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This book examines a number of facets of Western epitaph culture since antiquity, with particular emphasis on post-medieval developments in the major European countries as well as in North America. Various epitaphic "sub-cultures" are analyzed, among them the time-honored custom of composing one's own tomb inscription as well as the ancient and modern convention of honoring animals with epitaphs. It also examines epitaph-collecting, epitaph "lies," humorous epitaphs, and the change in social and religious attitudes toward suicides. The book concludes with a cultural and intellectual history of epitaphs. An epilogue addresses the question of the supposed disappearance of epitaph culture at the present time.
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1428
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