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Funny: The Book

Author : David Misch
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1557839662
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book Funny: The Book written by David Misch and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny: The Book is an entertaining look at the art of comedy, from its historical roots to the latest scientific findings, with diversions into the worlds of movies (Buster Keaton and the Marx Brothers), television (The Office), prose (Woody Allen, Robert Benchley), theater (The Front Page), jokes and stand-up comedy (Richard Pryor, Steve Martin), as well as personal reminiscences from the author's experiences on such TV programs as Mork and Mindy. With allusions to the not-always-funny Carl Jung, George Orwell, and Arthur Koestler, Funny: The Book explores the evolution, theories, principles, and practice of comedy, as well as the psychological, philosophical, and even theological underpinnings of humor, coming to the conclusion that (Spoiler Alert!) Comedy is God.

The Boastful Chef

Author : John Wilkins
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780199240685
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book The Boastful Chef written by John Wilkins and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains the importance of food to ancient Greek comedy: it was a medium through which comedy could represent the material, social, agricultural, political and religious worlds to the Greek city-state. The text also contains translations of hundreds of comic fragments; and it reassesses the division of comedy into Sicilian and Attic Old, Middle, and New.

Miscellanea; or various discourses upon 1. Tragedy. 2. Comedy. 3. The Italian,&4. The English Comedy. 5. And Operas ... Together with Epicurus his Morals. Written originally by the Sieur de Saint-Euvremont, and made English by F. Spence

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Author : Saint-Evremond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Miscellanea; or various discourses upon 1. Tragedy. 2. Comedy. 3. The Italian,&4. The English Comedy. 5. And Operas ... Together with Epicurus his Morals. Written originally by the Sieur de Saint-Euvremont, and made English by F. Spence written by Saint-Evremond and published by . This book was released on 1686 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar

Author : Caty Borum Chattoo
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520299779
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar written by Caty Borum Chattoo and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy is a powerful contemporary source of influence and information. In the still-evolving digital era, the opportunity to consume and share comedy has never been as available. And yet, despite its vast cultural imprint, comedy is a little-understood vehicle for serious public engagement in urgent social justice issues – even though humor offers frames of hope and optimism that can encourage participation in social problems. Moreover, in the midst of a merger of entertainment and news in the contemporary information ecology, and a decline in perceptions of trust in government and traditional media institutions, comedy may be a unique force for change in pressing social justice challenges. Comedians who say something serious about the world while they make us laugh are capable of mobilizing the masses, focusing a critical lens on injustices, and injecting hope and optimism into seemingly hopeless problems. By combining communication and social justice frameworks with contemporary comedy examples, authors Caty Borum Chattoo and Lauren Feldman show us how comedy can help to serve as a vehicle of change. Through rich case studies, audience research, and interviews with comedians and social justice leaders and strategists, A Comedian and an Activist Walk Into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice explains how comedy – both in the entertainment marketplace and as cultural strategy – can engage audiences with issues such as global poverty, climate change, immigration, and sexual assault, and how activists work with comedy to reach and empower publics in the networked, participatory digital media age.

The works of ... G. F. containing all his poems, letters ... and comedies ... fourth edition

Author : George Farquhar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The works of ... G. F. containing all his poems, letters ... and comedies ... fourth edition written by George Farquhar and published by . This book was released on 1760 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Restoration Drama

Author : John Harold Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Restoration Drama written by John Harold Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Restoration Drama

Author : John Harold Wilson
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Restoration Drama written by John Harold Wilson and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1928 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Culture

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London

Author : Mark S. Dawson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521848091
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)

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Book Synopsis Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London by : Mark S. Dawson

Download or read book Gentility and the Comic Theatre of Late Stuart London written by Mark S. Dawson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines how gentility was portrayed at London's theatres during the early modern era.

The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800

Author : George Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521079341
Total Pages : 1698 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800 written by George Watson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1971-07-02 with total page 1698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

Comedy and Distinction

Author : Sam Friedman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135009015
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Comedy and Distinction written by Sam Friedman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was shortlisted for the 2015 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize. Comedy is currently enjoying unprecedented growth within the British culture industries. Defying the recent economic downturn, it has exploded into a booming billion-pound industry both on TV and on the live circuit. Despite this, academia has either ignored comedy or focused solely on analysing comedians or comic texts. This scholarship tends to assume that through analysing an artist’s intentions or techniques, we can somehow understand what is and what isn’t funny. But this poses a fundamental question – funny to whom? How can we definitively discern how audiences react to comedy? Comedy and Distinction shifts the focus to provide the first ever empirical examination of British comedy taste. Drawing on a large-scale survey and in-depth interviews carried out at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the book explores what types of comedy people like (and dislike), what their preferences reveal about their sense of humour, how comedy taste lubricates everyday interaction, and how issues of social class, gender, ethnicity and geographical location interact with patterns of comic taste. Friedman asks: Are some types of comedy valued higher than others in British society? Does more ‘legitimate’ comedy taste act as a tangible resource in social life – a form of cultural capital? What role does humour play in policing class boundaries in contemporary Britain? This book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, social class, social theory, cultural studies and comedy studies.

The development of George Farquhar as a comic dramatist

Author : Eugene Nelson James
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3111391582
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book The development of George Farquhar as a comic dramatist written by Eugene Nelson James and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Experimentation on the English Stage, 1695-1708

Author : Elisabeth J Heard
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317303431
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Experimentation on the English Stage, 1695-1708 written by Elisabeth J Heard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the eighteenth century, British theatre saw a shift from what critics call 'Restoration' to 'sentimental' comedy. Focusing on the career of the Irish dramatist George Farquhar (1678-1707), this book argues that experimentation was the basis for this change.

The Comedy and Tragedy of Machiavelli

Author : Vickie B. Sullivan
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300087970
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (879 download)

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Download or read book The Comedy and Tragedy of Machiavelli written by Vickie B. Sullivan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian statesman and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli wrote not only political tracts but also comedies, poems, fables and letters that are seemingly lighthearted. The contributors to this volume explore the meanings of his works.

Marriage, Gender, and Desire in Early Enlightenment German Comedy

Author : Edward T. Potter
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571135294
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis Marriage, Gender, and Desire in Early Enlightenment German Comedy by : Edward T. Potter

Download or read book Marriage, Gender, and Desire in Early Enlightenment German Comedy written by Edward T. Potter and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals eighteenth-century German comedies' inherent resistance -- through their depiction of alternative gender roles and sexual behavior -- to the emerging discourse of the sentimental marriage. J. C. Gottsched, who reformed early Enlightenment German theater, claimed for comedy the ability to transform morality. The new literary comedies of the 1740s, among the other moral goals that they pursued, propagated a new sentimental discourse promoting marriage based on love while devaluing its traditional socioeconomic foundations. Yet in comedies by well-known dramatists of the period such as Gottsched, Gellert, J. E. Schlegel, Lessing, and Quistorp, alternative gender roles and sexual behaviors call the primacy of marriage into question: there are women who refuse to be integrated into marriage, episodes of cross-dressing that foreground the culturally constructed aspects ofgender roles, instances of male same-sex desire, and allusions to female same-sex desire. Edward T. Potter examines this marital discourse in close readings of these authors' plays, uncovering the ambiguity of eighteenth-century comedy's stance on marriage and highlighting its resistance to the emerging discourse of the sentimental marriage. In addition to excavating the connections between the texts and norms regarding gender roles and sexual behavior, Potter also examines how these comedies self-reflexively perform their own reception in plays-within-plays that reflect upon early Enlightenment comedy, poetics, and pedagogical aesthetics and thereby comment on the efficacy of theater as a means of propagating such norms. Edward T. Potter is Associate Professor of German at Mississippi State University.

The City as Comedy

Author : Gregory W. Dobrov
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469639467
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The City as Comedy written by Gregory W. Dobrov and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These thirteen essays combine classical scholars' interest in theatrical production with a growing interdisciplinary inquiry into the urban contexts of literary production. Taking as their departure point the annual comic competitions at the Athenian dramatic festivals, the contributors examine how the polis--as a place, a political entity, a specific social organization, and a set of ideological representations--was enacted on stage from the middle of the fifth century B.C. through the fourth. Applying a variety of critical approaches to Athenian comedy, these essays are grouped around three broad categories: utopianism, fissures in the social fabric, and the new polis of fourth-century comedy. The contributors explore the sociopolitical and material contexts of the works discussed and trace the genre into the fourth century, when it underwent profound changes. Simultaneously a study of classical Greek literature and an analysis of cultural production, this collection reveals how for two centuries Athens itself was transformed, staged as comedy, and, ultimately, shaped by contemporary material, social, and ideological forces. The contributors are Elizabeth Bobrick, Gregory Crane, Gregory Dobrov, Malcolm Heath, Jeffrey Henderson, Timothy P. Hofmeister, Thomas K. Hubbard, David Konstan, Heinz-GAnther Nesselrath, Frank Romer, Ralph M. Rosen, Niall W. Slater, and John Wilkins. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

English Studies

Author : Mehmet Ali Çelikel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443883182
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book English Studies written by Mehmet Ali Çelikel and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-18 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a selection of revised versions of the papers presented at the 7th International IDEA Conference held at Pamukkale University in Denizli, Turkey, organised by the Association of English Language and Literary Studies in Turkey. The contributions to this book offer a wide range of research from scholars on a variety of topics in English literature, including Shakespearean studies, Victorian, colonial, and postcolonial literature, poetry, and drama studies. The volume also includes a number of informative research articles on comparative and translation studies which will offer assistance to young scholars in their academic studies. In addition to acting as a guide to young academics, the book will also function as a fruitful reference book in a wide range of English literary studies.