现货For the Sake of Sanity: Doing Things with Humour in Irish Performance (Carysfort Press Ltd.)[9781788748117]

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作者Weitz, Eric

出版社Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers

ISBN9781788748117

出版时间2019-01

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页数236页

正文语种英语

上书时间2023-07-03

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商品描述: Humour claims no ideological affiliation - its workings merit inspection in any and every individual case, in light of the who, what, where and when of a joke, including the manner of performance, the socio-cultural context, the dynamic amongst participants, and who knows how many other factors particular to the instance. There are as many insights to be gained from the deployment of humour in performance as people to think about it - so herein lie a healthy handful of responses from a variety of perspectives. For the Sake of Sanity: Doing things with humour in Irish performance assembles a range of essays from practitioners, academics, and journalists, all of whom address the attempt to make an audience laugh in various Irish contexts over the past century. With a general emphasis on theatre, the collection also includes essays on film, television and stand-up comedy for those insights into practice, society and culture revealed uniquely through instances of humour in perfor