Comedy

Comedy / Andrew Stott.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stott, Andrew McConnell, 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2005.
Series:New critical idiom.
Subjects:
Comedy.
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Table of 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.

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