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Spike Milligan's Accordion.
It's all rather confusing, really" was one of the catchphrases used by Spike Milligan in his ground-breaking radio comedy program 'The Goon Show'. In a series of mock-epics broadcast over the course of a decade, Milligan treated listeners to a cosmology governed by confusion, con...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Brill,
2016.
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| Colección: | Consciousness, literature and the arts 49
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | It's all rather confusing, really" was one of the catchphrases used by Spike Milligan in his ground-breaking radio comedy program 'The Goon Show'. In a series of mock-epics broadcast over the course of a decade, Milligan treated listeners to a cosmology governed by confusion, contradictions, fluidity and uncertainty. In 'The Goon Show 's universe, time and space expand and contract seemingly at will and without notice. The worldview featured in 'The Goon Show' looked both backward and forward: backward, in the sense that it paralleled strategies used by schoolchildren to understand time and space; forward, in the ways it anticipated and prefigured a number of key features of postmodern thought |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004310703 9789004310704 |