Irony in the Age of Empire: Comic Perspectives on Democracy and Freedom

by Cynthia Willett

Book Overview

Comedy, from social ridicule to the unruly laughter of the carnival, provides effective tools for reinforcing social patterns of domination as well as weapons for emancipation. In Irony in the Age of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253351669
• ISBN13: 9780253351661
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.5"