San Antonio College Library

'Comic Relief' develops a comprehensive theory that integrates psychological, aesthetic, and ethical issues relating to humour.

"This book offers a fresh examination of literary wit as a distinct variety of discourse - one that is fundamentally different from wit, humor, and laughter in nonliterary contexts. Bruce Michelson moves beyond outmoded assumptions and canonical authorities to explore how wit can transform fiction, plays, and poetry, providing "a fire that keeps our imaginative literature hot."" "Michelson argues that to achieve a modernized and less-reductive understanding...