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Women and Comedy
Peter Dickinson
Anne Higgins
Paul Matthew St. Pierre
Diana Solomon
Sean Zwagerman
其他書名
History, Theory, Practice
出版
Rowman & Littlefield
, 2014-03-27
主題
Literary Criticism / Humor
Performing Arts / Comedy
Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
Performing Arts / Television / History & Criticism
ISBN
1611476445
9781611476446
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=0KxEAwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.
Through a reconsideration of literary, theatrical, and mass media texts from the Classical period to the present, Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice responds to the historical marginalization and/or trivialization of both women and comedy. The essays collected in this volume assert the importance of recognizing the role of women and comedy in order to understand these texts, their historical contexts, and their possibilities and limits as models for social engagement. In the spirit of comedy itself, these analyses allow for opportunities to challenge and reevaluate the theoretical approaches themselves.