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Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice

Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice

Dickinson, Peter
Higgins, Anne
St Pierre, Paul Matthew

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Literary CriticismFilm StudiesGeneral Drama

ISBN10: 168393072X
ISBN13: 9781683930723
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Published: Feb 24 2017
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice presents the most current international scholarship on the complexity and subversive potential of women's comedic speech, literature, and performance. Earlier comedy theorists such as Freud and Bergson did not envision women as either the agents or audiences of comedy, only as its targets. Only more recently have scholarly studies of comedy begun to recognize and historicize women's contributions to--and political uses of--comedy. The essays collected here demonstrate the breadth of current scholarship on gender and comedy, spanning centuries of literature and a diversity of methodologies.

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