Irony in the Age of Empire: Comic Perspectives on Democracy and Freedom by Cynthia Willett

Irony in the Age of Empire: Comic Perspectives on Democracy and Freedom

Cynthia Willett

184 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

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Comedy, from social ridicule to the unruly laughter of the carnival, provides effective tools for reinforcing social patterns of domination as well as weapons for emancipation. In Irony in the Age of Empire, Cynthia Willett asks: What could embody...

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