Comedy: A Very Short Introduction - Softcover

Book 19 of 344: Very Short Introductions

Bevis, Matthew

 
9780199601714: Comedy: A Very Short Introduction

Synopsis

A concise introduction that considers comedy not only as a literary genre, but also as a broad impulse at work in many other historical and contemporary forms of satire, parody, and play

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About the Author

Matthew Bevis is a Fellow in English at Keble College, University of Oxford. His publications include Lives of Victorian Literary Figures: Tennyson (Pickering & Chatto, 2003), Some Versions of Empson, ed. (OUP, 2007), and The Art of Eloquence: Byron, Dickens, Tennyson, Joyce (OUP, 2007). He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for his research in 2007.

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