Comedy and Social Science: Towards a Methodology of Funny

ISBN-13: 9780367598952 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 186 str.

Cate Watson

Opis

Humor as a topic of research has received a considerable amount of attention, but as a methodology has been severely neglected. If humor is a fundamental aspect of human experience and our understanding of what it is to be human, then to ignore the humorous as an analytical attitude, or the comic as a mode of representation, is at the

Spis treści

1. Introduction: If It’s Not Funny It’s Not True…  2. Origins and Theories of Humour and Laughter  3. Irony and the Ironic Imagination  4. Satire  5. Parody: An Onerous Confusion?  6. Humour and Laughter in the Research Process  7. Writing for Publication: The Importance of the Paratext  8. Comedy and Social Science: A Very Brief (Unscientific) Conclusion

O autorze

Cate Watson is Professor of Education at the University of Stirling, UK.