Format:
vii, 237 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
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24 cm
ISBN:
1786604078
,
178660406X
,
9781786604071
,
9781786604064
Series Statement:
Experiments/On the political
Content:
"First volume to reflect on both the comedy within critical theory and the role of comedians as practitioners of critique" --
Content:
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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781786604088
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Comedy and critical thought London : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018 ISBN 9781786604088
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
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Ethnology
Keywords:
Comedy
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Satire
;
Humor
;
Lachen
;
Kritische Theorie
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Mackenzie, Ian E. 1965-
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