Comedy and critical thought : laughter as resistance /

"First volume to reflect on both the comedy within critical theory and the role of comedians as practitioners of critique" --

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Rutter Giappone, Krista Bonello (Editor), Francis, Fred (Lecturer) (Editor), Mackenzie, Iain, 1969- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield International, [2018]
Series:Experiments/on the political.
Subjects:
Comedy > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Comic, The.
Critical theory.
Political satire > History and criticism.
Criticism (Philosophy)
Comédie > Histoire et critique > Théorie, etc.
Comique.
Théorie critique.
Satire politique > Histoire et critique.
Criticisme.
critical theories (dialectical critiques)
critical theory (sociological concept)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Drama.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Subjects & Themes > Politics.
Political satire
Critical theory
Comic, The
Comedy > Political aspects
Comedy > Social aspects
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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