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From Aristophanes to Ayckbourn, from Shakespeare and shaggy-dog stories to light-bulb jokes and banter about the weather, 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, Purdie turns traditional approaches to comedy inside out and shows how joking is not only a pleasurable but also a necessary function of using language.
| ISBN: | 9780745007243 |
| Publisher: | Prentice-Hall |
| Imprint: | Prentice-Hall |
| Pub date: | 01 Dec 1992 |
| DEWEY: | 306.4 |
| Language: | English |
| Number of pages: | 224 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Height: | 215mm |
| Width: | 139mm |
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