Comedy After Postmodernism: Rereading Comedy from Edward Lear to Charles Willeford

by Kirby Olson

Book Overview

Is comedy postmodern? Kirby Olson posits that no one has been more marginalized than the comic writer, whose irreverent truths have always made others uncomfortable. In a literary age that purports to champion diversity, comic writers remain an underclass huddling at the fringes of the canon. Olson challenges the status quo by inviting the comic writer into the center of literary debate. In the growing discipline of humor studies, Olson is the first...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896724409
• ISBN13: 9780896724402
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"