01093nam a22002657a 4500 50927 50927 20190712114313.0 190507b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781599424958 ;Donated by Ivan Paul Verghese 792.76 TAF Tafoya, Eddie The legacy of the wisecrack : stand-up comedy as the great American literary form / Eddie Tafoya Boca Raton : BrownWalker Press, 2009. 236 pages : illustrations 24cm 2219 "I want a real literature class" -- Dissecting Americanness -- Joke theories -- A stand-up prehistory -- A history of stand-up -- The American (comedic) jeremiad -- Steven Wright and the post-modern Picaresque -- Richard Pryor, American Dante -- Conclusion: the comedic frontier. Art Sports, games & entertainment Stand-up comedy -- United States. Comedy -- History and criticism. Comedy. United States. Tafoya, Eddie BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2019-05-07 OUR Books 2219.00 1 792.76 TAF 26353 2019-05-13 00:00:00 2019-05-10 2019-05-07 BOOK OUR Books