Humor in Life and Letters Series – serie
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7 produkter
Performing Marginality
Humour, Gender and Cultural Critique
Häftad, 2004
342 kr
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How do contemporary American female comics perform onstage, and what does this performance reveal about power relations in our culture as well as the existence of a "female" and, more specifically, "feminist" genre of stand-up comedy? In this long overdue study of women and stand-up comedy, Joanne …
Humor in Borges
Inbunden, 2000
430 kr
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Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1985) was an Argentine writer of serious avant-garde poetry and prose. This work studies the humour embedded in the author. The author aims to show how Borges was concerned with making the humour in his work more apparent without abandoning the essential story line.
Writing Humor
Creativity and the Comic Mind
Häftad, 2002
327 kr
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Providing both theory and praxis, this creative textbook explains how to write humour, comedy, satire, parody, nonsense, and both the literary and the joke monologue. Through its close analyses of short stories, sketches, essays and scripts, it should be useful to serious and not-so-serious writers …
Laughing Feminism
Subversive Comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen
Häftad, 2002
365 kr
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At a time when overt feminist statements could ruin a woman's reputation, comedy enabled certain authors to smuggle feminism into their writing. This work sheds light on the ways in which Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth and Jane Austen enlisted the power of comedy in the service of feminism, and in …
Understanding Humor in Japan
Häftad, 2006
371 kr
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For many students of Japanese culture and visitors to Japan, Japanese humor seems obscure, difficult to find, and perhaps even nonexistent. By bringing together scholarly insights and original research by both Japanese and non-Japanese experts, Jessica Milner Davis bridges the differences between …
Comedian As Confidence Man
Studies in Irony Fatigue
Av Will Kaufman
Häftad, 2019
447 kr
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In this lively and fascinating analysis of humorists and their work, Will Kaufman breaks new ground with his irony fatigue theory. The Comedian as Confidence Man examines the humorist's internal conflict between the social critic who demands to be taken seriously and the comedian who never can be: …
