Bloomfield, Sebastian (2023) The Comedic Multiform: A Poetics Framework for Capturing and Analysing Performance in the Anglophonic Stand-up Comedy Tradition. Doctoral thesis, York St John University.

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Abstract

This thesis outlines a holistic analysis framework for stand-up comedy performance in the Anglophonic comedy tradition. Academic stand-up comedy analysis and comparison is a comparatively recent addition to performative analysis and previous attempts are often unsuitable for direct comparison and contrast due to a lack of a unified framework and dedicated structuralist approach to the craft, with extant works approaching the analysis from a variety of intersectional but distinct schools adjacent to the appreciation of stand-up comedy as a unique performative medium.

Incorporating extant theoretical work on stand-up comedy analysis into a three-tiered poetics framework and applying this to analysing a corpus of thirty-five transcribed performance artefacts, this study is a structuralist approach to analysing anglophonic stand-up comedy performances. It argues that stand-up comedy is enough of a separate discipline to warrant its unique approach within the intellectual tradition of theatre and performance studies and that with the right framework for theoretical approaches, comparable analysis can be conducted on a wide variety of performances while maintaining the unique character of each.

Item Type:	Thesis (Doctoral)
Status:	Published
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
School/Department:	School of Humanities
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/10713

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