| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Experiments/On the Political |
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Experiments/on the political.
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| Contents |
Introduction : setting the agenda / Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Fred Francis, Iain MacKenzie -- Diagrams of comic estrangement / James Williams -- "Against the assault of laughter" : differentiating critical and resistant humour / Nick Holm -- Can we learn the truth from Lenny Bruce? A careful cognitivism about satire / Dieter Declercq -- Laughter, liturgy, Lacan and resistance to capitalist logic / Francis Stewart -- Humitas : humour as performative resistance / Kate Fox -- Conformist comedians : political humour in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic / Ivo Nieuwenhuis -- First World War cartoon comedy as criticism of British politics and society / Pip Gregory -- A suspended pratfall : mimesis and slapstick in contemporary art / Levi Hanes -- "Life" in struggle : the indifferent humour of Beckett's prose heroes / Selvin Yaltir -- "Holiday in Cambodia" : punk's acerbic comedy / Russ Bestley -- 'What can't be cured must be endured" : the postcolonial humour of Salman Rushdie, Sami Shah, and Hari Kondabolu / Christine Caruana -- Political jester : from fool to king / Constantino Pereira Martins -- Three easy steps to a new you? or, some thoughts on the politics of humour in the workplace / Adrian Hickey, Giuliana Monteverde, and Robert Porter |
| Summary |
"First volume to reflect on both the comedy within critical theory and the role of comedians as practitioners of critique" -- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Comedy -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc
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Comic, The.
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Critical theory.
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Political satire -- History and criticism
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Criticism (Philosophy)
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critical theories (dialectical critiques)
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Drama.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Subjects & Themes -- Politics.
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Political satire.
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Criticism (Philosophy)
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Critical theory.
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Comic, The.
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Comedy -- Political aspects.
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Comedy -- Social aspects.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rutter Giappone, Krista Bonello, editor
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Francis, Fred (Lecturer), editor.
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Mackenzie, Iain, 1969- editor.
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| LC no. |
2018032789 |
| ISBN |
9781786604088 |
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1786604086 |
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