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dc.contributor.advisorWeitz, Ericen
dc.contributor.authorNAESSENS, EDWARD DAVIDen
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-30T13:47:53Z
dc.date.available2018-07-30T13:47:53Z
dc.date.issued2018en
dc.date.submitted2018en
dc.identifier.citationNAESSENS, EDWARD DAVID, The development of Comic Stage Persona (CSP) in stand-up comedy: An interdisciplinary approach to an intersubjective performance phenomenon, Trinity College Dublin.School of Creative Arts.DRAMA, 2018en
dc.identifier.otherYen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/83328
dc.descriptionAPPROVEDen
dc.description.abstractComedians learn how and who to be on stage. Writing and performing stand-up comedy entails complex social and professional challenges. Facing these challenges, stand-up comedians adapt personae. Via a critical analysis of research literature, humour theories, and first-person and third-person accounts of stand-up comedy and humour, the thesis identifies the need to bridge folk accounts to scientific method. The thesis appraises current approaches to humour and stand-up comedy, identifies conceptual difficulties and germane lines of discovery, and proposes remedies via NIGHTS (a Notionally Integrated General Humour Theory of Stand-up Comedy). The key claim of NIGHTS is that the performance of stand-up comedy begins as an intentioned process. The theoretical framework employed is a multi-disciplinary matrix under the umbrella of Daniel Dennett?s Heterophenomenological approach to the study of consciousness. Given that any meaningful investigation of CSP and humour entails studying first-person subjective reporting, Dennett?s Heterophenomenological approach provides a strategy that accommodates first-person subjective accounts within a third-person objective framework. The approach allows for engagement with first-person reports of stand-up comedy from comedians, coaches, spectators, and critics, without privileging such reports. In this way the thesis aims to bridge first-person accounts (folk theory) and scientific approaches to performance. The aim of the thesis is to engage with subjective accounts, unpack concepts (identifying compatibilities and conflicting concepts and definitions), and analyse stand-up comedy and the development of CSP in a way that is amenable to psychology and cognitive science.en
dc.publisherTrinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Dramaen
dc.rightsYen
dc.subjectHumor Studiesen
dc.subjectPerformance Studiesen
dc.subjectCognitive Science Approach to Stand-up Comedyen
dc.subjectStand-up comedyen
dc.subjectPersona formationen
dc.subjectStewart Leeen
dc.subjectComedyen
dc.subjectLouis CKen
dc.subjectHeterophenomenologyen
dc.subjectPerformance of humouren
dc.subjectComic Stage Personaen
dc.subjectPsychology of humouren
dc.subjectCognitive Scienceen
dc.titleThe development of Comic Stage Persona (CSP) in stand-up comedy: An interdisciplinary approach to an intersubjective performance phenomenonen
dc.typeThesisen
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dc.type.qualificationlevelPostgraduate Doctoren
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