Stand-up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America by John Limon
Presents the study of stand-up comedy as a form of art. This title appreciates and analyses the specific practice of stand-up itself, moving beyond theories of the joke, of the comic, and of comedy in general to read stand-up through the lens of literary and cultural theory.-
Black Empire
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National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives
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Trans-Americanity
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Passing and the Fictions of Identity
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Assimilating Asians
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The First Woman in the Republic
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The Public Life of Privacy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
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Coyote Country
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Male Call
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The Other Henry James
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Latent Destinies
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From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park
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Negative Liberties
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Countermodernism and Francophone Literary Culture
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The Sign of the Cannibal
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Race and the Subject of Masculinities
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Racism and Cultural Studies
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Sentimental Materialism
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Red Land, Red Power
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Rebels
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Blood Narrative
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Deep River
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Exceptional State
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Individuality Incorporated
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Morocco Bound
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Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain
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Forgotten Readers
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The Color of Sex
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Gumshoe America
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New World Drama
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Egypt Land
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Crossing the Line
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Women's Camera Work
“John Limon’s book opens up exciting new possibilities in cultural studiesStand-up comedy—manic, smutty, abusive, improvisatory—has up to now evaded academic critics, as if its pleasures were too volatile for examination. Limon carries off the feat—rarely achieved by analysts of humour—of taking comedy seriously without spoiling the jokes.”—Maud Ellmann, University of Cambridge
“Limon’s close readings of specific comic performances are masterful, making vivid and compelling his larger and more abstract arguments about the ways that comedy allows us to deal with the process of cultural abjection. Speaking as someone who has taught and written about the American comic tradition for more than a decade, I can honestly say I learned something significant about each of the performers he examines.”—Henry Jenkins, author of Classical Hollywood Comedy
“Limon’s close readings of specific comic performances are masterful, making vivid and compelling his larger and more abstract arguments about the ways that comedy allows us to deal with the process of cultural abjection. Speaking as someone who has taught and written about the American comic tradition for more than a decade, I can honestly say I learned something significant about each of the performers he examines.”—Henry Jenkins, author of Classical Hollywood Comedy
John Limon is Professor of English at Williams College. He is the author of The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science and Writing after War.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780822325468 |
| ISBN 10 | 0822325462 |
| Title | Stand-up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America |
| Author | John Limon |
| Series | New Americanists |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2000-06-23 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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