Funny How?
What makes something funny? This book shows how humor can be analyzed without killing the joke. Alex Clayton argues that the brevity of a sketch or skit and its typical rejection of narrative development make it comedy-concentrate, providing a rich field for exploring how humor works. Focusing on a dozen or so skits and scenes, Clayton shows precisely how sketch comedy appeals to the funny bone and engages our philosophical imagination. He suggests that since humor is about persuading an audience to laugh, it can be understood as a form of rhetoric. Through vivid, highly readable analyses of individual sketches, Clayton illustrates that Arist…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4384-7828-9
- EAN: 9781438478289
- Produktnummer: 36394584
- Verlag: SUNY Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 162 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.9 cm 245 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 245
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