Comedy
Andrew McConnell Stott (Author)
"What is comedy? Andrew Stott traces changing definitions of the term from Aristotle to Chris Morris's Brass Eye via Oscar Wilde and Some Like It Hot. This book provides readers with the ideal critical introduction to the irrepressible genre of comedy."--Jacket
Comedies
1 online resource (viii, 168 pages)
9780203312124, 9780415299336, 9780415299329, 9786610168125, 9781134424054, 9781134424092, 9781280168123, 0203312120, 0415299330, 0415299322, 6610168121, 1134424051, 1134424094, 1280168129
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Comedy in the academy. Plato and Aristotle ; Genre trouble ; Fertility and the 'élan vital' : Cornford, Bergson, Langer ; Springtime and festival : Frye and Barber ; Carnival and the marketplace : Bakhtin and the new historicism
Comic Identity. Stereotypes ; Clowns, fools, and folly ; Tricksters ; Wit, camp, and bathos : Congreve, Wilde, Hancock
Gender and sexuality. Cross-dressing : As you like it and Some like it hot ; Drag and Transvestism ; Marriage
The Body. Beauty and abjection ; The grotesque ; Slapstick ; The female body
Politics. Comedy and the state : Frogs and Brass eye ; Satire ; 'Alternative' comedy : Comedians and comedians ; The end of laughter? : three Holocaust comedies
Laughter. Christian laughter ; Superiority and incongruity theories ; Relief theory : Freud and Spencer ; Poststructuralist laughters
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
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