Comedy: A Very Short Introduction

by Matthew Bevis

Book Overview

To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that writers and speakers enjoy - and risk - when they tell a joke, indulge in bathos, talk nonsense, or encourage irony?

This Very Short Introduction explores comedy both as a literary genre, and as a range of non-literary phenomena, experiences and events...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199601712
• ISBN13: 9780199601714
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.6" x 6.7"