All joking aside : American humor and its discontents / / Rebecca Krefting
| All joking aside : American humor and its discontents / / Rebecca Krefting |
| Autore | Krefting Rebecca <1978-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (361 p.) |
| Disciplina | 792.7/60973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Stand-up comedy - United States
Comedy - History and criticism Participatory theater |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 1-4214-1431-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: American humor and its discontents -- Making connections: building cultural citizenship through charged humor -- Twentieth-century stand-up: a history of charged humor -- Laughing into the new millennium -- When women perform charged humor: the (gendered) politics of consumption -- Robin Tyler: still 'working the crowd' -- Micia Mosely: humor out of the mouths of babes -- Hari Kondabolu: performing in the age of modern-day minstrelsy -- Conclusion: How to avoid the last laugh. |
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| Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014 | ||
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All joking aside : American humor and its discontents / / Rebecca Krefting
| All joking aside : American humor and its discontents / / Rebecca Krefting |
| Autore | Krefting Rebecca <1978-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (361 p.) |
| Disciplina | 792.7/60973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Stand-up comedy - United States
Comedy - History and criticism Participatory theater |
| ISBN | 1-4214-1431-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: American humor and its discontents -- Making connections: building cultural citizenship through charged humor -- Twentieth-century stand-up: a history of charged humor -- Laughing into the new millennium -- When women perform charged humor: the (gendered) politics of consumption -- Robin Tyler: still 'working the crowd' -- Micia Mosely: humor out of the mouths of babes -- Hari Kondabolu: performing in the age of modern-day minstrelsy -- Conclusion: How to avoid the last laugh. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786635003321 |
Krefting Rebecca <1978->
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| Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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All joking aside : American humor and its discontents / / Rebecca Krefting
| All joking aside : American humor and its discontents / / Rebecca Krefting |
| Autore | Krefting Rebecca <1978-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (361 p.) |
| Disciplina | 792.7/60973 |
| Soggetto topico |
Stand-up comedy - United States
Comedy - History and criticism Participatory theater |
| ISBN | 1-4214-1431-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction: American humor and its discontents -- Making connections: building cultural citizenship through charged humor -- Twentieth-century stand-up: a history of charged humor -- Laughing into the new millennium -- When women perform charged humor: the (gendered) politics of consumption -- Robin Tyler: still 'working the crowd' -- Micia Mosely: humor out of the mouths of babes -- Hari Kondabolu: performing in the age of modern-day minstrelsy -- Conclusion: How to avoid the last laugh. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816456703321 |
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| Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014 | ||
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Comedy studies
| Comedy studies |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Bristol] : , : Intellect Ltd., , [2010-] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina | 809 |
| Soggetto topico |
Comedy - History and criticism
Comedy |
| Soggetto genere / forma |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Periodicals. |
| Soggetto non controllato | Sociology |
| ISSN | 2040-6118 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910726488003321 |
| [Bristol] : , : Intellect Ltd., , [2010-] | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The comic mode in English literature [[electronic resource] ] : from the Middle Ages to today / / Murray Roston
| The comic mode in English literature [[electronic resource] ] : from the Middle Ages to today / / Murray Roston |
| Autore | Roston Murray |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Continuum, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - History and criticism
Comedy - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-283-32203-X
9786613322036 1-4411-3248-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Introduction; Late Medieval; a) The Second Shepherds' Play; b) Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; c) Medwall, Fulgens and Lucrece; The Renaissance; a) Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream; b) Falstaff; c) Donne, The Flea; d) Marvell, The Garden; The Restoration and Eighteenth Century; a) Restoration Comedy; b) Pope, The Rape of the Lock; c) The Vogue of Sentiment; d) Sterne, Tristram Shandy; The Nineteenth Century; a) Austen, Emma; b) Dickens, The Pickwick Papers; c) Poking Fun at the Establishment; d) Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest; e) Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
The Twentieth Centurya) George Bernard Shaw; b) Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm; c) Beckett, Waiting for Godot; d) Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim; e) Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man; f) Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary; Notes; Works Cited - on the Comic; Works Cited - General; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457477403321 |
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| London, : Continuum, 2011 | ||
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The comic mode in English literature [[electronic resource] ] : from the Middle Ages to today / / Murray Roston
| The comic mode in English literature [[electronic resource] ] : from the Middle Ages to today / / Murray Roston |
| Autore | Roston Murray |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Continuum, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
| Soggetto topico |
English literature - History and criticism
Comedy - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-283-32203-X
9786613322036 1-4411-3248-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Introduction; Late Medieval; a) The Second Shepherds' Play; b) Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales; c) Medwall, Fulgens and Lucrece; The Renaissance; a) Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream; b) Falstaff; c) Donne, The Flea; d) Marvell, The Garden; The Restoration and Eighteenth Century; a) Restoration Comedy; b) Pope, The Rape of the Lock; c) The Vogue of Sentiment; d) Sterne, Tristram Shandy; The Nineteenth Century; a) Austen, Emma; b) Dickens, The Pickwick Papers; c) Poking Fun at the Establishment; d) Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest; e) Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
The Twentieth Centurya) George Bernard Shaw; b) Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm; c) Beckett, Waiting for Godot; d) Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim; e) Malcolm Bradbury, The History Man; f) Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary; Notes; Works Cited - on the Comic; Works Cited - General; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781972103321 |
Roston Murray
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| London, : Continuum, 2011 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The death of comedy [[electronic resource] /] / Erich Segal
| The death of comedy [[electronic resource] /] / Erich Segal |
| Autore | Segal Erich <1937-2010.> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (608 p. ) : ill |
| Disciplina | 809.2/523 |
| Soggetto topico | Comedy - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-674-04341-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface 1. Etymologies: Getting to the Root of It 2. The Song of the Komos 3. The Lyre and the Phallus 4. Aristophanes: The One and Only? 5. Failure and Success 6. The Birds : The Uncensored Fantasy 7. Requiem for a Genre? 8. The Comic Catastrophe 9. O Menander! O Life! 10. Plautus Makes an Entrance 11. A Plautine Problem Play 12. Terence: The African Connection 13. The Mother-in-Law of Modern Comedy 14. Machiavelli: The Comedy of Evil 15. Marlowe: Schade and Freude 16. Shakespeare: Errors and Eros 17. Twelfth Night : Dark Clouds over Illyria 18. Moliere: The Class of '68 19. The Fox, the Fops, and the Factotum 20. Comedy Explodes 21. Beckett: The Death of Comedy Coda Notes Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458221303321 |
Segal Erich <1937-2010.>
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| Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2001 | ||
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The death of comedy [[electronic resource] /] / Erich Segal
| The death of comedy [[electronic resource] /] / Erich Segal |
| Autore | Segal Erich <1937-2010.> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (608 p. ) : ill |
| Disciplina | 809.2/523 |
| Soggetto topico | Comedy - History and criticism |
| ISBN | 0-674-04341-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface 1. Etymologies: Getting to the Root of It 2. The Song of the Komos 3. The Lyre and the Phallus 4. Aristophanes: The One and Only? 5. Failure and Success 6. The Birds : The Uncensored Fantasy 7. Requiem for a Genre? 8. The Comic Catastrophe 9. O Menander! O Life! 10. Plautus Makes an Entrance 11. A Plautine Problem Play 12. Terence: The African Connection 13. The Mother-in-Law of Modern Comedy 14. Machiavelli: The Comedy of Evil 15. Marlowe: Schade and Freude 16. Shakespeare: Errors and Eros 17. Twelfth Night : Dark Clouds over Illyria 18. Moliere: The Class of '68 19. The Fox, the Fops, and the Factotum 20. Comedy Explodes 21. Beckett: The Death of Comedy Coda Notes Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791474603321 |
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| Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2001 | ||
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The death of comedy / / Erich Segal
| The death of comedy / / Erich Segal |
| Autore | Segal Erich <1937-2010.> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (608 p. ) : ill |
| Disciplina | 809.2/523 |
| Soggetto topico | Comedy - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
9780674043411
0674043413 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface 1. Etymologies: Getting to the Root of It 2. The Song of the Komos 3. The Lyre and the Phallus 4. Aristophanes: The One and Only? 5. Failure and Success 6. The Birds : The Uncensored Fantasy 7. Requiem for a Genre? 8. The Comic Catastrophe 9. O Menander! O Life! 10. Plautus Makes an Entrance 11. A Plautine Problem Play 12. Terence: The African Connection 13. The Mother-in-Law of Modern Comedy 14. Machiavelli: The Comedy of Evil 15. Marlowe: Schade and Freude 16. Shakespeare: Errors and Eros 17. Twelfth Night : Dark Clouds over Illyria 18. Moliere: The Class of '68 19. The Fox, the Fops, and the Factotum 20. Comedy Explodes 21. Beckett: The Death of Comedy Coda Notes Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910953235503321 |
Segal Erich <1937-2010.>
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| Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2001 | ||
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The idea of comedy [[electronic resource] ] : a critique / / Jan Walsh Hokenson
| The idea of comedy [[electronic resource] ] : a critique / / Jan Walsh Hokenson |
| Autore | Hokenson Jan |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison [N.J.], : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809/.917 |
| Soggetto topico |
Comic, The, in literature
Comedy - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-8386-4341-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458174503321 |
Hokenson Jan
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| Madison [N.J.], : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, c2006 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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