Laughing matters : a Longman topics reader

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Diogenes, Marvin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pearson Longman , c2009
Series:The Longman topics reader series
Longman topics
Subjects:
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • 1. How comedy works
  • 2. The cultural role of comedy
  • 3. Modest and immodest proposals (deliberative rhetoric)
  • 4. Making the case with comedy (forensic rhetoric)
  • 5. Comic celebrations and attacks (ceremonial rhetoric)
  • 6. Observations on gender (ceremonial rhetoric too)
  • 7. Imitation is the sincerest form of comedy