Author: William Kurtz WimsattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Idea of Comedy: Essays in Prose and Verse
Author: William Kurtz WimsattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Comedy: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Matthew BevisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199601712
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
With a broad scope across the millennia, from high literature to popular culture, between page and stage and screen, this Very Short Introduction considers comedy not only as a literary genre, but also as a broader impulse at work in many other historical and contemporary forms of satire, parody, and play.
On Poe
Author: Louis J. BuddPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. The journal has published the best work of literary historians, critics, and bibliographers, ranging from the founders of the discipline to the best current critics and researchers. The longevity of this excellence lends a special distinction to the articles in American Literature. Presented in order of their first appearance, the articles in each volume constitute a revealing record of developing insights and important shifts of critical emphasis. Each article has opened a fresh line of inquiry, established a fresh perspective on a familiar topic, or settled a question that engaged the interest of experts.
The Idea of Comedy
Author: William Kurtz WimsattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama (Comedy)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Indi'n Humor
Author: Kenneth LincolnPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195068874
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Drawing on history, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, and the arts, this book challenges "wooden Indian" stereotypes to redefine negative attitudes and humorless approaches to Native American peoples. Moving from tribal culture to interethnic literature, Lincoln explores such topics as the traditional Trickster of origin myths, historical ironies, Euroamericans "playing Indian", feminist Indian humor at home, contemporary painters and playwrights reinventing Coyote, popular mixed-blood music, and Red English. Lincoln turns to the texts of Native American authors including Louise Erdrich, James Welch, and N. Scott Momaday, to illustrate the rich tradition of Native American humor: a tradition that evolved as the result of and has survived in spite of a history of unconscionable suffering and sadness during the course of which ninety-seven percent of the native populations were destroyed. A study of the literary humor of poets like Paula Gunn Allen, Diane Burns, and Linda Hogan provides further evidence of the importance of the role of humor in Native American culture. Indi'n Humor documents and interprets the contexts of laughter among Native Americans, as they see and are seen by the rest of the world. The study comes to focus comically on the poets, visual artists, playwrights, and novelists who make up the cultural renaissance of the past twenty years. Focusing on ethnic humor, from jokes in bars and powwows, to intercultural politics, to literature, Indi'n Humor will enlighten and entertain readers interested in Native American culture, as well as scholars of Amen can and Ethnic Studies, and humor theorists.
Comedy, an Annotated Bibliography of Theory and Criticism
Author: James E. EvansPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810819870
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
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The Humour of Vladimir Nabokov
Author: Paul Benedict GrantPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1399519247
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
The first in-depth study of Vladimir Nabokov’s humour, investigating its physical aspects such as farce, slapstick, sexual and scatological humour Offers the first in-depth study of Nabokov’s humour Presents a revisionist reading of Nabokov Examines the metaphysical aspects of Nabokov’s humour Examines the sexual and scatological aspects of Nabokov’s humour Applies humour theory (e.g. those of Hobbes, Bergson, Freud) to Nabokov’s texts Compares Nabokov’s humour to that of his Russian predecessors (e.g. Pushkin, Gogol, Chekhov) and to literary humourists such as Rabelais, Swift, Joyce Many critics classify Vladimir Nabokov as a highbrow humourist, a refined wordsmith overly fond of playful puzzles and private in-jokes whose art appeals primarily to an intellectually-sophisticated readership. This study presents a more balanced portrait, placing equal emphasis on the broader, earthier humour that is such a marked feature of Nabokov’s writing, which draws on the human body and all things physical for its laughs: sex and scatology, farce and slapstick. Moving between the metaphysical and the physical, the cosmic and the comic, mind and matter, it presents Nabokov as a writer at home in both high and low forms of humour, a comedian who is capable of producing as many belly laughs as brainteasers, and of appealing to a much wider readership than is commonly supposed.
Linguistic Theories of Humor
Author: Salvatore AttardoPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110219026
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
So this English professor comes into class and starts talking about the textual organization of jokes, the taxonomy of puns, the relations between the linguistic form and the content of humorous texts, and other past and current topics in language- based research into humor. At the end he stuffs all the various approaches to verbal humor into linguistic theory as a whole. Nobody gets it, see, so he tells them to buy the book.
Critical Survey of Literary Theory: Authors, Sy-Z, essays index
Author: Frank Northen MagillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The Punk Turn in Comedy
Author: Krista Bonello Rutter GiapponePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319728415
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This book examines the interconnections between punk and alternative comedy (altcom). It explores how punk’s tendency towards humour and parody influenced the trajectory taken by altcom in the UK, and the punk strategies introduced when altcom sought self-definition against dominant established trends. The Punk Turn in Comedy considers the early promise of punk-comedy convergence in Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s ‘Derek and Clive’, and discusses punk and altcom’s attitudes towards dominant traditions. The chapters demonstrate how punk and altcom sought a direct approach for critique, one that rejected innuendo, while embracing the ‘amateur’ in style and experimenting with audience-performer interaction. Giappone argues that altcom tended to be more consistently politicised than punk, with a renewed emphasis on responsibility. The book is a timely exploration of the ‘punk turn’ in comedy history, and will speak to scholars of both comedy and punk studies.