Screen LibraryGroucho 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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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven : |
| Publication Dates: | [2015] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Jewish lives New Haven, Conn |
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| Summary: |
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. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 162 pages : portrait ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-151) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780300174458 (hardcover) : 0300174454 (hardcover) |
| Index Number: | PN2287 |
| CLC: | K837.125.78 |
| Call Number: | K837.125.78/M392S |
| Contents: | 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. |