num_pages: 291
description: In what is at once a psychoanalytic reading of postmodernism and a postmodern reading of psychoanalysis, Jerry Aline Flieger explores reliance on the purloining of the punch line--the loss of the last word--in forging a comic vision of human life as a social text.
language: English
title: The Purloined Punchline: Freud's Comic Theory and the Postmodern Text
titlecomplete: The Purloined Punchline: Freud's Comic Theory and the Postmodern Text
ratings_count: 1
publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press