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Stand-up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America
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John Limon
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Edited by:
Donald E. Pease
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English
Published/Copyright:
2000
About this book
A cultural theory of stand-up comedy.
Author / Editor information
John Limon is Professor of English at Williams College. He is the author of The Place of Fiction in the Time of Science and Writing after War.
Reviews
“John Limon’s book opens up exciting new possibilities in cultural studies. Stand-up comedy—manic, smutty, abusive, improvisatory—has up to now evaded academic critics, as if its pleasures were too volatile for examination. Limon carries off the feat—rarely achieved by analysts of humour—of taking comedy seriously without spoiling the jokes.”—Maud Ellmann, University of Cambridge
“Limon’s close readings of specific comic performances are masterful, making vivid and compelling his larger and more abstract arguments about the ways that comedy allows us to deal with the process of cultural abjection. Speaking as someone who has taught and written about the American comic tradition for more than a decade, I can honestly say I learned something significant about each of the performers he examines.”—Henry Jenkins, author of Classical Hollywood Comedy
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eBook published on:
June 23, 2000
eBook ISBN:
9780822380504
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