Showing posts with label Loopholes Reading Comically By: John Bruns. Show all posts
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Friday, June 27, 2014

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Loopholes
Reading Comically
By: John Bruns

Much writing about comedy tends to begin and end with Aristotle's claim that comedy is inferior to tragedy, trivializing comedy as cheap or as a temporary distraction from things that "really matter." Such writing either presents exhaustive taxonomies of kinds of humor--like wit, puns, jokes, humor, satire, irony--or engages in pointless political endgames, moral dialogues, or philosophical perceptions. Comedy is rarely presented as a mode of thought in its own right, as a way of understanding, not something to be understood.