Humour in the Arts - New Perspectives (Hardcover)

Vivienne Westbrook, Shun-Liang Chao

Series: Studies for the International Society for Cultural History

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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.

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Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Studies for the International Society for Cultural History
Release date:	August 2018
First published:	2019
Editors:	Vivienne Westbrook • Shun-Liang Chao
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	230
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-31464-1
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Humanities > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > Theory & methods > Historiography Promotions
LSN:	1-138-31464-1
Barcode:	9781138314641