What's so Funny?
The Comic Conception of Culture and Society
400 pages, 15 cartoons, 2 line drawings 6 x 9
©
1993
Cloth $29.95
ISBN: 9780226138107
Published December 1993
Preface
Introduction
Part One: The Comic Attack on Culture
Wit's Weapons: Incongruity and Ambiguity
1. Unstable Meanings
2. Irrational Logics
3. Indistinct Beings
Part Two: The Comic Attack on Society
Wit's Weapons: Anomaly and Actuality
4. Atypical Actors
5. Atypical Actions
6. Incompetent Functioning
7. Inauthentic Presentations
8. Incompatible Selves
Conclusion
Notes
References
Illustration Credits
Index
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