Absurdist Comedy is a genre of comedic expression characterized by its subversion of logical causality and narrative coherence, distinguishing itself through the deliberate use of irrational, paradoxical, and surreal situations to evoke humor and critique existential meaninglessness.
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Absurd Comedy
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The logic of the absurd: on film and television comedy
Choice Reviews Online · 1989 · 85 citations
Altered Sense of Humor in Dementia
Camilla N. Clark, Jennifer M. Nicholas, Elizabeth Gordón et al. · Journal of Alzheimer s Disease · 2015 · 47 citations · Full text
Medicine, Neurology, Psychology +16
The Theatre of the Absurd in Spanish America
George Woodyard · Comparative drama · 1969 · 32 citations
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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
London, United Kingdom
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1 publications
47 citations
Goldsmiths University of London
London, United Kingdom
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1 publications
18 citations
Waterford Institute of Technology
Waterford, Ireland
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1 publications
14 citations
University College London
London, United Kingdom
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12 publications
564 citations
UK Dementia Research Institute
London, United Kingdom
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12 publications
564 citations
University of London
London, United Kingdom
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1 publications
47 citations
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- American Literature
2 publications · 25 citations
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- Choice Reviews Online
CRO · 2 publications · 110 citations
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- Irish Political Studies
1 publications · 14 citations
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- Comparative drama
1 publications · 32 citations
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- Journal of Alzheimer s Disease
JAD · 1 publications · 47 citations
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