Comedy: The Mastery of Discourse

Sampul Depan
Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993 - 186 halaman
From Shakespeare to light-bulb jokes, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of the nature and function of comedy in our society. Drawing on theories of language from Foucault, Levi-Strauss and Lacan, it argues that joking is both a pleasurable and necessary function of using language.

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Joking and Discourse
12
Joking as the Abuse of Language
34
The Third Position
58
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