Comedy by Andrew Stott

Comedy by Andrew Stott

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Zusammenfassung

Rather than attempting to produce a totalising definition of 'the comic', this volume focuses on the significance of comic 'events' through study of various theoretical methodologies, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis and gender theory.

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Comedy by Andrew Stott

What is comedy? Andrew Stott tackles this question through an investigation of comic forms, theories and techniques, tracing the historical definitions of comedy from Aristotle to Chris Morris's Brass Eye via Wilde and Hancock. Rather than attempting to produce a totalising definition of 'the comic', this volume focuses on the significance of comic 'events' through study of various theoretical methodologies, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis and gender theory, and provides case studies of a number of themes, ranging from the drag act to the simplicity of slipping on a banana skin.
Andrew Stott is Assistant Professor of English at the State University of New York, Buffalo, USA.
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ISBN 13 9780415299336
ISBN 10 0415299330
Titel Comedy
Autor Andrew Stott
Serie The New Critical Idiom
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Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Taylor & Francis Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr 2004-11-25
Seitenanzahl 176
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