Description:
Demonstrating the usefulness of reading verbal and visual texts through a framework of humour, this collection examines how, structurally and strategically, humour has engaged with audiences in different historical contexts in the West and contributed more broadly to cultural formation and transformation.
Review Quotes:
"Humour in the Arts: New Perspectives refreshes me at a time when humour has become rancid. Vivienne Westbrook and Shun-liang Chao return us to a lost world where humour could be good natured."
-Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities and English, Yale University, USA