Spike Milligan's accordion : : the distortion of time and space in the Goon show / / by Rick Cousins.
“It’s all rather confusing, really” was one of the catchphrases used by Spike Milligan in his ground-breaking radio comedy program The Goon Show. In a series of mock-epics broadcast over the course of a decade, Milligan treated listeners to a cosmology governed by confusion, contradictions, fluidity...
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| Superior document: | Consciousness, literature and the arts 49 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2016] |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Consciousness, Literature and the Arts ;
49. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 pages) :; color illustrations. |
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| Summary: | “It’s all rather confusing, really” was one of the catchphrases used by Spike Milligan in his ground-breaking radio comedy program The Goon Show. In a series of mock-epics broadcast over the course of a decade, Milligan treated listeners to a cosmology governed by confusion, contradictions, fluidity and uncertainty. In The Goon Show ’s universe, time and space expand and contract seemingly at will and without notice. The worldview featured in The Goon Show looked both backward and forward: backward, in the sense that it paralleled strategies used by schoolchildren to understand time and space; forward, in the ways it anticipated and prefigured a number of key features of postmodern thought. Winner of the Ann Saddlemyer Award 2017 of the Canadian Association for Theatre Research. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004310703 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by Rick Cousins. |