Book review: Bouissac, Paul (2015). The Semiotics of Clowns and Clowning: Rituals of Transgression and the Theory of Laughter. Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics. London: Bloomsbury, 218 pp.
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Keywords

clown
laughter
circus
semiotics
performance

How to Cite

Tsakona, V. (2015). Book review: Bouissac, Paul (2015). The Semiotics of Clowns and Clowning: Rituals of Transgression and the Theory of Laughter. Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics. London: Bloomsbury, 218 pp. The European Journal of Humour Research, 4(1), 122-125. https://ww.europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/view/126

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Book review: Bouissac, Paul (2015). The Semiotics of Clowns and Clowning: Rituals of Transgression and the Theory of Laughter. Bloomsbury Advances in Semiotics. London: Bloomsbury, 218 pp.

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