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Overview

What is comedy? Andrew Stott traces changing definitions of the term from Aristotle to Chris Morris's Brass Eye via Oscar Wilde and Some Like It Hot. This book provides readers with the ideal critical introduction to the irrepressible genre of comedy.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780415299336
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • Publication date: 12/28/2004
  • Series: New Critical Idiom Series
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 176
  • Sales rank: 961,097
  • Product dimensions: 5.00 (w) x 7.60 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Andrew Stott is Professor of English and Director of the Honors College at the University of Buffalo, SUNY, USA.

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Table of Contents

1 Comedy in the academy 17
2 Comic identity 40
3 Gender and sexuality 62
4 The body 83
5 Politics 103
6 Laughter 127
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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 21, 2012

    Molly M.

    I'm the first to reveiw!Yeaya! I'm so sorry about that.Does not even sound like a very good book.Do not recomend for comedy lovers.Now that I think about it,It's not even about comedy.LAME with a capital L baby.PEACE!!!!!!"

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