The Law and Comedy
(Sprache: Englisch)
Despite their inherent seriousness, the law and those who practice it, be it lawyers, judges, politicians, or bureaucrats, are amongst the most popular objects of comedy and humour. Sometimes even the mention of the law, or the mere use of legal...
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Despite their inherent seriousness, the law and those who practice it, be it lawyers, judges, politicians, or bureaucrats, are amongst the most popular objects of comedy and humour. Sometimes even the mention of the law, or the mere use of legal vocabulary, can trigger laughter. This is deeply counterintuitive, but true across cultures and historical eras: while the law is there to prevent and remedy injustice, it often ends up becoming the butt of comedy. But laughter and comedy, too, are also infused with seriousness: as universal social phenomena, they are extremely complex objects of study. This book maps out the many intersections of the law and laughter, from classical Greece to the present day. Taking on well-known classical and modern works of literature and visual culture, from Aristophanes to Laurel and Hardy and from Nietzsche to Totò and Fernandel, laughter and comedy bring law back to the complexity of human soul and the unpredictability of life.
Autoren-Porträt von Giuseppe Rossi, Paola Carbone
Giuseppe Rossi, associate professor of comparative private law - IULM University, Milan, Italy; Paola Carbone, associate professor of English language and literature - IULM University, Milan, Italy.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Giuseppe Rossi , Paola Carbone
- 2023, XIII, 220 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 23,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: De Gruyter
- ISBN-10: 3111285391
- ISBN-13: 9783111285399
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Englisch
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