Comedy - Paperback

by Andrew Stott (Author)

This new edition builds on themes presented in the first edition such as focusing on the significance of comic 'events' through study of various theoretical methodologies, including deconstruction, psychoanalysis and gender theory, and provides case studies of a number of themes, ranging from the drag act to the simplicity of slipping on a banana skin.

Author Biography

Andrew Stott is Professor of English at the University of Buffalo, SUNY, USA.