Humour in the arts : new perspectives / edited by Vivienne Westbrook and Shun-liang Chao ; foreword by Jessica Milner Davis ; and conclusion by John Morreall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Westbrook, Vivienne, editor.

Chao, Shun-liang, editor.

Series:

Studies for the international society for cultural history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humor in literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 230 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"This 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword: the intersection of humour studies and cultural history / Jessica Milner Davis

Introduction: reading humorously: towards new perspectives / Shun-liang Chao and Vivienne Westbrook

Literary humour in English: a short cultural history / Robert S. White

Unbidden to the banquet: humour in the classical period / R. Drew Griffith

Understatement and incongruity: humour in the literature of Anglo-Saxon England / Jonathan Wilcox

Laughter and humour in Middle English texts / Anne M. Scott

Shakespeare's reformation humour / Vivienne Westbrook

"To make fools laugh, and women blush, and wise men ashamed": humour in the English Restoration / Lyndsey Bakewell and Sara Read

Beyond slapstick: humour, physicality, and empathic performance in G.E. Lessing's comedies / Pascale LaFountain

Emerson's sad clown: American transcendentalism and the dilemma of the humourist / John Michael Corrigan

The congruity of incongruity: Victorian intermedial humour / Mou-Lan Wong

"A tomato is also a child's balloon": surrealist humour as a moral attitude / Shun-liang Chao.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Humour in the arts

ISBN:

9781138314641

1138314641

OCLC:

1029801536