Groucho Marx the comedy of existence
The cultural and psychological roots of Groucho Marx's genius are explored, uncovering the source of the performer's outrageous intellectual acuity and hilarious insolence toward convention and authority in his early upbringing and Marx family dynamics. -- Publisher's description
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New Haven, London
Yale University Press
2015
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| Schriftenreihe: | Jewish lives
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| Online Zugang: | Autorenbiografie Verlagsangaben |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | The cultural and psychological roots of Groucho Marx's genius are explored, uncovering the source of the performer's outrageous intellectual acuity and hilarious insolence toward convention and authority in his early upbringing and Marx family dynamics. -- Publisher's description Introduction: a fateful condition -- Nothing will come of nothing -- Human, all too human -- Fathers and sons -- Groucho and me: a match made in heaven -- Interlude: words -- Beyond the pleasure principle -- Groucho the Jewish aristocrat -- Groucho the Jewish outsider-philosopher -- Epilogue: gone today, here tomorrow |
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| Beschreibung: | Buchschnitt uneben (Büttenrand) |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 162 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780300174458 978-0-300-17445-8 |