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The Law and Comedy / Paola Carbone, Giuseppe Rossi.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Law & Literature ; 24Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 220 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783111285399
  • 9783111287768
  • 9783111286778
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 340.0207 23//eng/20230928eng
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Foreword to the English edition -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Law, comedy, justice -- Chapter 2 How and why we laugh at law -- Chapter 3 Law vs. Comedy -- Chapter 4 In the Vortex of Evil -- Chapter 5 The “ridiculous claims” of law -- Chapter 6 Who am I and where do I live? Persona, law and laughter -- A final paragraph in the guise of a conclusion -- Appendixes by Giuseppe Rossi -- Appendix 1 The Good Lawyer and Bardell v. Pickwick -- Appendix 2 The Law and the Masochist’s Contract: Notes on Gilles Deleuze’s Coldness and Cruelty -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Foreword to the English edition -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Law, comedy, justice -- Chapter 2 How and why we laugh at law -- Chapter 3 Law vs. Comedy -- Chapter 4 In the Vortex of Evil -- Chapter 5 The “ridiculous claims” of law -- Chapter 6 Who am I and where do I live? Persona, law and laughter -- A final paragraph in the guise of a conclusion -- Appendixes by Giuseppe Rossi -- Appendix 1 The Good Lawyer and Bardell v. Pickwick -- Appendix 2 The Law and the Masochist’s Contract: Notes on Gilles Deleuze’s Coldness and Cruelty -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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