Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice Contributor(s): Dickinson, Peter (Editor), Higgins, Anne (Editor), St Pierre, Paul Matthew (Editor) |
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ISBN: 168393072X ISBN-13: 9781683930723 Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press OUR PRICE: $56.42 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Humor - Performing Arts | Comedy - Performing Arts | Film - History & Criticism |
Dewey: 809.708 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9" (0.90 lbs) 280 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice presents the most current international scholarship on the complexity and subversive potential of women's comedic speech, literature, and performance. Earlier comedy theorists such as Freud and Bergson did not envision women as either the agents or audiences of comedy, only as its targets. Only more recently have scholarly studies of comedy begun to recognize and historicize women's contributions to-and political uses of-comedy. The essays collected here demonstrate the breadth of current scholarship on gender and comedy, spanning centuries of literature and a diversity of methodologies. Through a reconsideration of literary, theatrical, and mass media texts from the Classical period to the present, Women and Comedy: History, Theory, Practice responds to the historical marginalization and/or trivialization of both women and comedy. The essays collected in this volume assert the importance of recognizing the role of women and comedy in order to understand these texts, their historical contexts, and their possibilities and limits as models for social engagement. In the spirit of comedy itself, these analyses allow for opportunities to challenge and reevaluate the theoretical approaches themselves. |