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Humour in the Arts: New Perspectives (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781138314641)
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xThis 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.
Author: Vivienne Westbrook
ISBN-10: 1138314641
ISBN-13: 9781138314641
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2018
Pages: 230
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
By Vivienne Westbrook
xVivienne Westbrook is an Adjunct Professor at The University of Western Australia and a member of St. John's College, Cambridge. She has received numerous international endorsements for her work in cultural history, including a Presidential Award for Outstanding Contributions to Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Shun-liang Chao is Associate Professor of English at National Chengchi University, Taiwan and currently a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University. He is the author of Rethinking the Concept of the Grotesque: Crashaw, Baudelaire, Magritte (Routledge, 2010), awarded an Honourable Mention in 2013 for the Anna Balakian Prize of the International Comparative Literature Association.
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