Comedy: The Mastery of DiscourseHarvester Wheatsheaf, 1993 - 186 páginas From Shakespeare to light-bulb jokes, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of the nature and function of comedy in our society. Drawing on theories of language from Foucault, Levi-Strauss and Lacan, it argues that joking is both a pleasurable and necessary function of using language. |
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... examples . Literary criticism has not only celebrated what J. L. Styan called the ' dark comedy ... Shakespeare Company production of King Lear in which Antony Sher played the ... COMEDY AS JOKING TEXT.
... examples . Literary criticism has not only celebrated what J. L. Styan called the ' dark comedy ... Shakespeare Company production of King Lear in which Antony Sher played the ... COMEDY AS JOKING TEXT.
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... has been considerably documented ( see , for example , Baldick ; Colls and Dodd ; Eagleton ; Hawkes ; Mulhern ) . Its especial affinity with the criticism of comedy - and above all that of Shakespeare's comedies - is apparent in ...
... has been considerably documented ( see , for example , Baldick ; Colls and Dodd ; Eagleton ; Hawkes ; Mulhern ) . Its especial affinity with the criticism of comedy - and above all that of Shakespeare's comedies - is apparent in ...
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... Shakespeare's Festive Comedy : A study of dramatic form and its relation to ... Comedy , New York : Doubleday . Bermel , A. ( 1982 ) Farce , New York ... Uses of Comedy , Lexington , KY : University of Kentucky Press . Cameron , D ...
... Shakespeare's Festive Comedy : A study of dramatic form and its relation to ... Comedy , New York : Doubleday . Bermel , A. ( 1982 ) Farce , New York ... Uses of Comedy , Lexington , KY : University of Kentucky Press . Cameron , D ...
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Joking and Discourse | 12 |
Joking as the Abuse of Language | 34 |
The Third Position | 58 |
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