Humour in the Arts

New Perspectives

Vivienne Westbrook editor Shun-liang Chao editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:10th Aug '18

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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.

"Humour in the Arts: New Perspectives refreshes me at a time when humour has become rancid. Vivienne Westbrook and Shun-liang Chao return us to a lost world where humour could be good natured.”
-Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English, Yale University, USA

ISBN: 9781138314641

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 453g

230 pages