The legacy of the wisecrack
Subtitle: stand-up comedy as the great American literary form  / Eddie Tafoya.
Publisher: BrownWalker Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boca Raton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781599424958
Subjects: Stand-up comedy -- United States; Comedy -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: "I want a real literature class"; title: Dissecting Americanness; title: Joke theories; title: A stand-up prehistory; title: A history of stand-up; title: The American (comedic) jeremiad; title: Steven Wright and the post-modern Picaresque; title: Richard Pryor, American Dante; title: Conclusion: the comedic frontier.