Paperback • 2013 • English

Comedy: A Very Short Introduction

Name: Comedy
SKU: 9780199601714
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ISBN: 9780199601714

By Matthew Bevis

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About the book

To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that writers and speakers enjoy - and risk - when they tell a joke, indulge in bathos, talk nonsense, or encourage irony? This Very Short Introduction explores comedy both as a literary genre, and as a range of non-literary phenomena, experiences and events. Matthew Bevis studies the classics of comic drama...Show more

Film, television, radio genres: Comedy and humour

Comedy and stand-up

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9780199601714

Publisher

OUP Oxford

Published year

2013

Language

English

Original title

Comedy

Format

Paperback

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