Comedy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) - medicalbooks.filipinodoctors.org

Show more pictures

Comedy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Brand: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Model: RCRF-02
ISBN 9780199601714
UPC: 000199601712
Category: #1044201 in Paperback (Performing Arts)
Price: $12.99  (Customer Reviews)
Dimension: 6.70 x 0.50 x 4.30 inches
Shipping Wt: 2.31 pounds. FREE Shipping (Details)
Availability: In Stock
Buy From Amazon

Product Description

To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that writers and speakers enjoy - and risk - when they tell a joke, indulge in bathos, talk nonsense, or encourage irony?

This Very Short Introduction explores comedy both as a literary genre, and as a range of non-literary phenomena, experiences and events. Matthew Bevis studies the classics of comic drama, prose fiction and poetry, alongside forms of pantomime, comic opera, silent cinema, popular music, Broadway shows, music-hall, stand-up and circus acts, rom-coms, sketch shows, sit-coms, caricatures, and cartoons.

Taking in scenes from Aristophanes to The Office, from the Roman Saturnalia to Groundhog Day, Bevis also considers comic theory from Aristotle to Freud and beyond, tracing how comic achievements have resisted as well as confirmed theory across the ages.

This book takes comedy seriously without taking it solemnly, and offers an engaging study of the comic spirit which lies at the heart of our shared social and cultural life.

Buy From Amazon

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought




*If this is not the "Comedy: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link.  Details were last updated on Nov 24, 2024 05:16 +08.