Monologues, Epigrams, Epitaphs and Parodies

Monologues, Epigrams, Epitaphs and Parodies
Title Monologues, Epigrams, Epitaphs and Parodies PDF eBook
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Pages 168
Release 1910
Genre American wit and humor
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The United States Catalog

The United States Catalog
Title The United States Catalog PDF eBook
Author Mary Burnham
Publisher
Pages 1612
Release 1928
Genre American literature
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Bulletin

Bulletin
Title Bulletin PDF eBook
Author Detroit Public Library
Publisher
Pages 530
Release 1910
Genre Catalogs, Classified (Dewey decimal)
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Bulletin

Bulletin
Title Bulletin PDF eBook
Author Omaha Public Library
Publisher
Pages 206
Release 1913
Genre Libraries
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The Dramatic Index

The Dramatic Index
Title The Dramatic Index PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 276
Release 1911
Genre Drama
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Library Bulletin

Library Bulletin
Title Library Bulletin PDF eBook
Author Somerville Public Library (Mass.).
Publisher
Pages 232
Release 1910
Genre Public libraries
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The Legacy of the Wisecrack

The Legacy of the Wisecrack
Title The Legacy of the Wisecrack PDF eBook
Author Eddie Tafoya
Publisher Universal-Publishers
Pages 238
Release 2009
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1599424959

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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 qualities as it provides a detailed history of the forces that shaped it. The study concludes with a look at the works of specific comedians such as Steven Wright, whose three decades of performances comprise a single picaresque tale, and Richard Pryor, whose 1982 masterpiece Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip serves as modern America's answer to Dante Aligheri's epic poem, Inferno. The result is one of the first serious treatments of stand-up comedy as a literary form.