1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795462203321

Autore

Rutter Giappone Krista Bonello

Titolo

Comedy and critical thought : laughter as resistance / / Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Fred Francis and Iain MacKenzie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England ; ; New York : , : Rowman & Littlefield International, , 2018

©2018

ISBN

1-78660-408-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (246 pages)

Disciplina

152.43

Soggetti

Laughter

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : setting the agenda / Krista Bonello Rutter Giappone, Fred Francis, Iain MacKenzie -- Diagrams of comic estrangement / James Williams -- "Against the assault of laughter" : differentiating critical and resistant humour / Nick Holm -- Can we learn the truth from Lenny Bruce? A careful cognitivism about satire / Dieter Declercq -- Laughter, liturgy, Lacan and resistance to capitalist logic / Francis Stewart -- Humitas : humour as performative resistance / Kate Fox -- Conformist comedians : political humour in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic / Ivo Nieuwenhuis -- First World War cartoon comedy as criticism of British politics and society / Pip Gregory -- A suspended pratfall : mimesis and slapstick in contemporary art / Levi Hanes -- "Life" in struggle : the indifferent humour of Beckett's prose heroes / Selvin Yaltir -- "Holiday in Cambodia" : punk's acerbic comedy / Russ Bestley -- 'What can't be cured must be endured" : the postcolonial humour of Salman Rushdie, Sami Shah, and Hari Kondabolu / Christine Caruana -- Political jester : from fool to king / Constantino Pereira Martins -- Three easy steps to a new you? or, some thoughts on the politics of humour in the workplace / Adrian Hickey, Giuliana Monteverde, and Robert Porter.

Sommario/riassunto

"First volume to reflect on both the comedy within critical theory and the role of comedians as practitioners of critique" --



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910694067203321

Titolo

Methamphetamine Epidemic Elimination Act : hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, on H.R. 3889, September 27, 2005

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (iv, 112 p.) : ill

Soggetti

Methamphetamine - Law and legislation - United States

Methamphetamine abuse - Government policy - United States

Drug traffic - United States - Prevention

Drugs - Law and legislation - United States

Methamphetamine - Environmental aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNISANNIOPAL0176737

Autore

Melograni, Piero

Titolo

La modernità e i suoi nemici / Piero Melograni

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano, : Oscar Mondadori, 2000

ISBN

8804477172

Descrizione fisica

255 p. ; 20 cm.

Collana

Oscar saggi ; 658

Classificazione

X00.1

X00.2

X09.0

X09.3

X30.0

Disciplina

303.4

303.483

Soggetti

Modernità

Mutamento sociale

Collocazione

POZZO LIB.ECON MON                8703

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia