Beschreibung:
Much writing about comedy in the last twenty years has only trivialized comedy as cheap or as temporary distraction from things that "really matter
1: Reading Comedy Comically; 2: Laughter, Affect, and Power; 3: Comic Perception; 4: The Mind of Stanley Cavell: A Comedy; 5: Get out of Gaol Free, or: How to Read a Comic Plot; 6: Reading and Repairing the Grotesque