Comedy: The Mastery of DiscourseHarvester Wheatsheaf, 1993 - 186 Seiten From Shakespeare to light-bulb jokes, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of the nature and function of comedy in our society. Drawing on theories of language from Foucault, Levi-Strauss and Lacan, it argues that joking is both a pleasurable and necessary function of using language. |
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... funny . - If Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra ( I , i ) opened at its eighteenth line , before any implicating context had been established , it might well be understood as a comedy . At line 18 Antony and Cleopatra are together on ...
... funny . - If Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra ( I , i ) opened at its eighteenth line , before any implicating context had been established , it might well be understood as a comedy . At line 18 Antony and Cleopatra are together on ...
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... Shakespeare's Festive Comedy : A study of dramatic form and its relation to ... Comedy , New York : Doubleday . Bermel , A. ( 1982 ) Farce , New York ... Uses of Comedy , Lexington , KY : University of Kentucky Press . Cameron , D ...
... Shakespeare's Festive Comedy : A study of dramatic form and its relation to ... Comedy , New York : Doubleday . Bermel , A. ( 1982 ) Farce , New York ... Uses of Comedy , Lexington , KY : University of Kentucky Press . Cameron , D ...
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The Mastery of Discourse Susan Purdie. use of term , 3 Laurel and Hardy , 41 ... comedy , 7 literary criticism , 150 Lundberg , C.C. , 129 M McFadden , G. , 155-6 ... Shakespeare , W. , 64 , 79 , 81 , 82-3 , 85 , 86 , 88 , 103 , 105 , 109 ...
The Mastery of Discourse Susan Purdie. use of term , 3 Laurel and Hardy , 41 ... comedy , 7 literary criticism , 150 Lundberg , C.C. , 129 M McFadden , G. , 155-6 ... Shakespeare , W. , 64 , 79 , 81 , 82-3 , 85 , 86 , 88 , 103 , 105 , 109 ...
Inhalt
Joking and Discourse | 12 |
Joking as the Abuse of Language | 34 |
The Third Position | 58 |
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