Machine-Age Comedy.
Michael. North
Bok Engelsk 2008 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (233 pages)
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| Opplysninger | Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART I -- 1. Camera Men -- 2. Mickey's Mechanical Man -- 3. Goldberg Variations -- PART II -- 4. Wyndham Lewis, Soldier of Humor -- 5. Beckett's Machinations -- 6. A More Than Infinite Jest -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.. - In this latest addition to Oxford's Modernist Literature & Culture series, renowned modernist scholar Michael North poses fundamental questions about the relationship between modernity and comic form in film, animation, the visual arts, and literature. Machine-Age Comedy vividly constructs a cultural history that spans the entire twentieth century, showing how changes wrought by industrialization have forever altered the comic mode. Throughout, North argues that modern writers and artists found something inherently comic in new experiences of repetition. Ultimately, this rich, tightly focused study offers a new lens for understanding the devlopment of comedic structures during periods of massive social, political, and cultural change to reveal how the original promise of modern life can be extracted from its practical disappointment.
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| ISBN | 9780199700981
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