Legacy of the Wisecrack Stand-up Comedy as the Great American Literary Form

Name: Legacy of the Wisecrack Stand-up Comedy as the Great American Literary Form
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ISBN: 9781599424958

ISBN-10: 1599424959

ISBN-13: 9781599424958

Edition: 2009

Authors: Eddie Tafoya

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Despite the claim of many a Borscht Belt comic that he is a practitioner of "the world's second-oldest professsion," stand-up comedy is a young and distinctly American literary form. It was not until the last decades of the nineteenth century when, enabled by unprecedented prosperity and the right to free expression, that monologists began appearing in American vaudeville halls. Yet even though it has since become an entertainment industry mainstay, stand-up comedy has received precious little scholarly attention. The Legacy of the Wisecrack: Stand-up Comedy as the Great American Literary Form looks at the theory of stand-up comedy, its literary dimensions, and its distinctly American…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Universal Publishers
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English