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Availability:In StockContributor:Matthew BevisSeries:Very Short IntroductionsPublish date:2/7/2013Pages:176
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780199601714ISBN-10:199601712UPC:9780199601714Book Category:Literary Criticism, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Humor, Comedy, Semiotics & TheorySize:6.70 x 4.57 x 0.32 inchesWeight:0.28Product ID:SCZENN0ZY9
Comedy: A Very Short Introduction
To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that writers and speakers enjoy - and risk - when they tell a joke, indulge in bathos, talk nonsense, or encourage irony? This Very Short Introduction explores comedy both as a literary genre, and as a range...
Series: Very Short Introductions
Language:EnglishPublisher:Oxford University PressISBN-13:9780199601714ISBN-10:199601712UPC:9780199601714Book Category:Literary Criticism, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Humor, Comedy, Semiotics & TheorySize:6.70 x 4.57 x 0.32 inchesWeight:0.28Product ID:SCZENN0ZY9
Matthew Bevis is a Fellow in English at Keble College, University of Oxford. His publications include Lives of Victorian Literary Figures: Tennyson (Pickering & Chatto, 2003), Some Versions of Empson, ed. (OUP, 2007), and The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce (OUP, 2007). He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for his research in 2007.
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