Comedy : The New Critical Idiom - Andrew Stott

Comedy

By: Andrew Stott

Hardcover | 3 July 2014 | Edition Number 2

At a Glance

Hardcover


RRP $242.00

$211.75

12%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $52.94 with

 or 

Available for Backorder. We will order this from our supplier however there isn't a current ETA.

This new edition of Andrew Stott's Comedy builds on themes presented in the first edition such as focusing on the significance of comic 'events' through study of various theoretical methodologies, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis and gender theory, and provides case studies of a number of themes, ranging from the drag act to the simplicity of slipping on a banana skin. This new edition features:

  • updates to reflect new research the field
  • new chapters on Women in Comedy and Race and Ethnicity
  • a broader range of literary and cultural examples.

Written in a clear and accessible style, this book is ideal introduction to comedy for students studying literature and culture.

More in Literary Theory

Create Dangerously : Penguin Modern - Albert Camus
How to Read a Book : A Touchstone book - Charles Van Doren

RRP $34.99

$18.99

46%
OFF
Seriality : Media and the Psychic Form of Everyday Life - Ryan Engley
Black Feminist Theories : Transnational Approaches - Bibi Bakare-Yusuf

RRP $160.00

$143.75

10%
OFF
Need/Emergency : Political Theater in Exigent Times - Benjamin Lewis Robinson
Mobilizing Memories

$317.75

The Queer Bookshelf : A Reader's Guide - Layla McCay

RRP $39.99

$31.75

21%
OFF
Middlemarch : Collins Classics - George Eliot

RRP $9.99

$9.75

Bodies That Matter : On the Discursive Limits of Sex - Judith  Butler
Metaphors We Live By - George Lakoff

RRP $31.95

$26.75

16%
OFF
Literary Theory : An Introduction - Terry Eagleton

RRP $41.95

$31.75

24%
OFF
Frankenstein : Collins Classics - Mary Shelley
Literacies : 2nd edition - Mary Kalantzis

RRP $145.95

$116.99

20%
OFF
Literary Theory : The Basics - Hans  Bertens