دانلود کتاب Comedy and Critique: Stand-up Comedy and the Professional Ethos of Laughter

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COMEDY AND CRITIQUE\nContents\nDetailed Contents\nAcknowledgements\nIntroduction\n Sociology and stand-up comedy: from Talcott Parsons to Mort Sahl\n Stand-up comedy and New Left politics\n Outline of the argument\nPart I. Analytical\n1\n1. The Art of Stand-Up Comedy\n Ethos and morphology of the stand-up comedian\n Art and the intelligence of feeling\n From ritual to theatre? Stand-up comedy’s anthropological antecedents\n The magic of the stand-up comedian\n The modernity of the stand-up comedian\n Intra-personality, or the modernism of the stand-up comedian\n Coda\nPart II. Synthetic\n3. Representation\n Stand-up: representing whom?\n Stand-up in the sociology of art and culture\n Comedification: from abjection to New Left hegemony\n Truth to power: the humour of ‘millennial men’\n Historicising millennial humour\n4. Persona\n Stand-up comedy after abjection\n The abject ontology of comic persona\n The ethics of comic persona\n The limits of New Left hegemony\nPart III. Critical\n5. The Critique of Comic Reason\n John Dowie’s grave\n The sociological inquiries of paranoids, detectives and comedians\n Comedy as critique\n Beautiful mediocrity: towards an aesthetical sociological critique\nAppendix: Methodological Tables\nNotes\nBibliography\nIndex