| Humour in the Arts: New Perspectives Contributor(s): Westbrook, Vivienne (Editor), Chao, Shun-Liang (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138314641 ISBN-13: 9781138314641 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Civilization |
| Dewey: 809.7 |
| LCCN: 2018014595 |
| Series: Studies for the International Society for Cultural History |
| Physical Information: 230 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection demonstrates the usefulness of approaching texts--verbal, visual and aural--through a framework of humour. Contributors offer in-depth discussions of humour in the West within a wider cultural historical context to achieve a coherent, chronological sense of how humour 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. |