Humour in the arts : new perspectives /
This collection demonstrates the usefulness of approaching texts, verbal, visual and aural, through a framework of humor. Contributors offer in-depth discussions of humor in the West within a wider cultural historical context to achieve a coherent, chronological sense of how humor proceeds from anti...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2019]
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| Series: | Studies for the international society for cultural history.
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| Summary: | This collection demonstrates the usefulness of approaching texts, verbal, visual and aural, through a framework of humor. Contributors offer in-depth discussions of humor in the West within a wider cultural historical context to achieve a coherent, chronological sense of how humor proceeds from antiquity to modernity. Reading humorously reveals the complexity of certain aspects of texts that other reading approaches have so far failed to reveal. Humour in the Arts explores humour as a source of cultural formation that engages with ethical, political and religious controversies whilst acquainting readers with a wide range of humorous structures and strategies used across Western cultures. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781138314641 1138314641 |