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Overweight sensation the life and comedy of Allan Sherman / by Cohen, Mark

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The drama of fallen France reading la comédie sans tickets / by Krauss, Kenneth, 1948-

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American theatre a chronicle of comedy and drama, 1969-2000 / by Hischak, Thomas S.

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American theatre a chronicle of comedy and drama, 1930-1969 / by Bordman, Gerald Martin

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Hokum! : The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture / by King, Rob, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…"The cuckoo school of humor" : humor and metropolitan culture in 1920s America -- "The stigma of slapstick" : the short-subject industry and its imagined public -- "The spice of the program" : educational pictures and the small-town audience -- "I want music everywhere" : music, operetta, and cultural hierarchy at the Hal Roach Studios -- "From the archives of Keystone memory" : slapstick and re-membrance at Columbia Pictures' short-subjects department -- Coda : when comedy was king.…”
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Hokum! : The Early Sound Slapstick Short and Depression-Era Mass Culture / by King, Rob, 1975-

Table of Contents: “…"The cuckoo school of humor" : humor and metropolitan culture in 1920s America -- "The stigma of slapstick" : the short-subject industry and its imagined public -- "The spice of the program" : educational pictures and the small-town audience -- "I want music everywhere" : music, operetta, and cultural hierarchy at the Hal Roach Studios -- "From the archives of Keystone memory" : slapstick and re-membrance at Columbia Pictures' short-subjects department -- Coda : when comedy was king.…”
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A futile and stupid gesture how Doug Kenney and National lampoon changed comedy forever / by Karp, Josh

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Charms of the cynical reason the trickster's transformations in Soviet and post-Soviet culture / by Lipovet͡skiĭ, M. N. (Mark Naumovich)

Table of Contents: “…"Reformed" tricksters in the comedies of the 70s-80s: Gaidai's Tricksters; Riazanov's Detochkin; Daneliia's Buzykin;…”
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Engaging Agnes Heller : a critical companion /

Table of Contents: “…Bernstein -- Narrative philosophy : an essay on Agnes Heller / János Boros -- To Agnes Heller : an open letter on philosophy and the real problem of woman / Katie Terezakis -- Loving fate / Amos Friedland -- Agnes Heller as autobiographer : history and a myriad of contexts / Preben Kaarsholm -- The comedy of philosophy / Dmitri Nikulin -- Nietzsche's thumotic politics : a programmatic statement with an eye on Agnes Heller / Horst Hutter -- From contingency to destiny : on Heller's existential ethics / John Grumley -- Reflections on the essays addressed to my work / Agnes Heller -- "Von der Armut am Geiste" : a dialogue by the young Lukács / Agnes Heller.…”
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Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film / by Verstraten, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Introduction; 1. Low-Class Comedies; 2. Multicultural Comedies; 3. From 'Kind-hearted' Comedies to Neurotic Romances; 4. …”
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Humour and Irony in Dutch Post-war Fiction Film / by Verstraten, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Preface; Introduction; 1. Low-Class Comedies; 2. Multicultural Comedies; 3. From 'Kind-hearted' Comedies to Neurotic Romances; 4. …”
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Homemade men in postwar Austrian cinema nationhood, genre and masculinity / by Fritsche, Maria, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Popular Cinema and Society -- The Historical Costume Film -- Heimatfilm -- Tourist Film -- Comedy -- Conclustion.…”
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Lost unicorns of the velvet revolutions heterotopias of the seminar / by Nikolchina, Miglena

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The seminar : mode demploi : impure spaces in the light of late totalitarianism -- The west as intellectual utopia -- Between irony and revolution : sexual difference and the case of Aufhebung -- An unfinished project : man as comedy -- Addendum : the discretions of inverted theory -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index.…”
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The greengrocer and his TV the culture of communism after the 1968 Prague Spring / by Bren, Paulina

Table of Contents: “…"A criminal comedy but of a revivalist spirit" : the beginning and the end of the Prague Spring -- Purge and the remaking of a socialist citizenry -- Intellectuals, hysterics, and "real men" : the Prague Spring officially remembered -- The quiet life versus a life in truth : writing the script for normalization -- Broadcasting in the age of late communism -- Jaroslav Dietl : normalization's narrator -- The socialist family and its caretakers -- Self-realization and the socialist way of life.…”
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The construction of European Holocaust memory : German and Polish cinema after 1989 / by Pakier, Małgorzata, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Holocaust film and European memory -- An entangled European history: Holocaust comedy Europa, Europa (Germany-Poland-France 1990) -- Holocaust melodrama: beyond history or burdened with the past? …”
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Experiencing Fiction : Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative / by Phelan, James, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Judgments, progressions, and the rhetorical experience of narrative -- Jane Austen's experiment in narrative comedy : the beginning and early middle of Persuasion -- Sethe's choice and Toni Morrison's strategies : the beginning and middle of Beloved -- Chicago criticism, new criticism, cultural thematics, and rhetorical poetics -- Progressing toward surprise : Edith Wharton's "Roman fever" -- Delayed disclosure and the problem of other minds : Ian McEwan's Atonement -- Rhetorical aesthetics within rhetorical poetics -- Interlacings of narrative and lyric : Ernest Hemingway's "A clean, well-lighted place" and Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Narrative in the service of portraiture : Alice Munro's "Prue" and Ann Beattie's "Janus" -- Dramatic dialogue as lyric narrative : Robert Frost's "Home burial" -- Experiencing fiction and its corpus : extensions to nonfiction narrative and synthetic fiction.…”
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Experiencing Fiction : Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative / by Phelan, James, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Judgments, progressions, and the rhetorical experience of narrative -- Jane Austen's experiment in narrative comedy : the beginning and early middle of Persuasion -- Sethe's choice and Toni Morrison's strategies : the beginning and middle of Beloved -- Chicago criticism, new criticism, cultural thematics, and rhetorical poetics -- Progressing toward surprise : Edith Wharton's "Roman fever" -- Delayed disclosure and the problem of other minds : Ian McEwan's Atonement -- Rhetorical aesthetics within rhetorical poetics -- Interlacings of narrative and lyric : Ernest Hemingway's "A clean, well-lighted place" and Sandra Cisneros's "Woman Hollering Creek" -- Narrative in the service of portraiture : Alice Munro's "Prue" and Ann Beattie's "Janus" -- Dramatic dialogue as lyric narrative : Robert Frost's "Home burial" -- Experiencing fiction and its corpus : extensions to nonfiction narrative and synthetic fiction.…”
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Sylvia Plath : New Views on the Poetry /

Table of Contents: “…Process and influence: The shape of the psyche: vision and technique in the late poems of Sylvia Plath / Richard Allen Blessing -- Plath's comedy / J.D. O'Hara -- Medusan imagery in Sylvia Plath / Sister Bernetta Quinn -- Influence and originality in Plath's poems / Gary Lane -- Plath's cosmology and the house of Yeats / Barnett Guttenberg -- 3. …”
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Sylvia Plath : New Views on the Poetry /

Table of Contents: “…Process and influence: The shape of the psyche: vision and technique in the late poems of Sylvia Plath / Richard Allen Blessing -- Plath's comedy / J.D. O'Hara -- Medusan imagery in Sylvia Plath / Sister Bernetta Quinn -- Influence and originality in Plath's poems / Gary Lane -- Plath's cosmology and the house of Yeats / Barnett Guttenberg -- 3. …”
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Shakespeare re-dressed cross-gender casting in contemporary performance /

Table of Contents: “…Cross-dressing, drag, and passing: slippages in Shakespearean comedy / Jennifer Drouin -- Acting against the rules: remembering the eroticism of the Shakespearean boy actress / Roberta Barker -- Bringing Cheek by Jowl's As you like it out of the closet: the politics of queer theater / James C. …”
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