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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Stott, Andrew, 1969- Comedy. New York ; London : Routledge, 2005 (DLC) 2004010093 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Andrew Stott |
ISBN: | 0203312120 9780203312124 9780415299336 0415299330 9780415299329 0415299322 6610168121 9786610168125 9781134424054 1134424051 9781134424092 1134424094 9781280168123 1280168129 |
OCLC Number: | 229924385 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 168 pages) |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | 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. |
Series Title: | New critical idiom. |
Responsibility: | Andrew Stott. |
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