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  Title

  What are you laughing at? : a comprehensive guide to the comedic event

  Author

  O'Shannon, Dan.  

  Publisher:

  Continuum,

  Pub date:

  2012.

  Pages:

  xiii, 298 p. :

  ISBN:

  9781441162939

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    PN1922 .O84 2012	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  9781441162939

  ISBN:

  1441162933

  029:

  AU@ 000049684653

  Personal Author:

  O'Shannon, Dan.

  Title:

  What are you laughing at? : a comprehensive guide to the comedic event / Dan O'Shannon.

  Publication info:

  New York : Continuum, 2012.

  Physical description:

  xiii, 298 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

  General Note:

  Includes index.

  Contents:

  Common comedy theories ; The comedic event ; Documenting the comedic event -- Part one. Elements of context, the reception factors: The receiver and his world ; Elements of communication ; Vehicles ; Level of control and identifying the source -- Part two. Comedic information: Fundamental components ; Incongruity ; Cognitive process ; Variations ; Comedy and entropy -- Part three. Enhancers, inhibitors, and aspects of awareness: How comedic information triggers enhancers and inhibitors ; Elements of the joke's communication, structure, and content -- Summing it all up.

  Summary:

  Presents an entirely new approach to comedy theory. It challenges long-held beliefs and shows how the three main theories of comedy (incongruity, superiority, and relief) are not in conflict; but rather, work as parts of a larger model.

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  TODD

  Subject term:

  Comedy--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

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