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Women and Comedy - History, Theory, Practice (Paperback)
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Women and Comedy - History, Theory, Practice (Paperback)
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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.
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