232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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Much writing about comedy tends to begin and end with Aristotle's claim that comedy is inferior to tragedy, trivializing comedy as cheap or as a temporary distraction from things that "really matter." Such writing either presents exhaustive taxonomies of kinds of humor—like wit, puns, jokes, humor, satire, irony—or engages in pointless political endgames, moral dialogues, or philosophical... Read more
1: Reading Comedy Comically; 2: Laughter, Affect, and Power; 3: Comic Perception; 4: The Mind of Stanley Cavell: A Comedy; 5: Get out of Gaol Free, or: How to Read a Comic Plot; 6: Reading and Repairing the Grotesque
Biography
John Bruns
