Comedy and critical thought : laughter as resistance /: laughter as resistance. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Fred Francis and Iain MacKenzie.
• Editors: Rutter Giappone, Krista Bonello; Francis, Fred; Mackenzie, Ian
• Contents: Comedy and Critical Thought; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Setting the Agenda; Part I: Comedy, Critique and Resistance; 2 Diagrams of Comic Estrangement; 3 â#x80;#x98;Against the Assault of Laughterâ#x80;#x99;: Differentiating Critical and Resistant Humour; 4 Can We Learn the Truth from Lenny Bruce? A Careful Cognitivism about Satire; 5 Laughter, Liturgy, Lacan and Resistance to Capitalist Logic; 6 Humitas: Humour as Performative Resistance; Part II: Laughter as Resistance?; 7 Conformist Comedians: Political Humour in the Eighteenth-Century Dutch Republic 8 First World War Cartoon Comedy as Criticism of British Politics and Society9 A Suspended Pratfall: Mimesis and Slapstick in Contemporary Art; 10 â#x80;#x98;Lifeâ#x80;#x99; in Struggle: The Indifferent Humour of Beckettâ#x80;#x99;s Prose Heroes; 11 â#x80;#x98;Holiday in Cambodiaâ#x80;#x99;: Punkâ#x80;#x99;s Acerbic Comedy; 12 â#x80;#x98;What Canâ#x80;#x99;t Be Cured Must Be Enduredâ#x80;#x99;: The Postcolonial Humour of Salman Rushdie, Sami Shah and Hari Kondabolu; 13 Political Jester: From Fool to King; 14 Three Easy Steps to a New You? Or, Some Thoughts on the Politics of Humour in the Workplace . . .; Index; About the Contributors
• Publisher Details: London : Rowman & Littlefield International
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.917; Comedy -- Political aspects; Comedy -- Social aspects; LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Politics; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781786604088; 1786604086
• Related ISBNs: 1786604078; 9781786604071; 178660406X; 9781786604064
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 5, 2018).
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