Description |
ix, 299 p. : ill. cm. |
Contents |
Early ecstatic emptiness. The holy fool flees language's stinkbomb: The cocoanuts (1929) -- Pinky, the pointing scapegoat, lags behind: Duck soup (1933) -- The mad mohel's goo-goo eyes of monomaniacal attunement: A night at the opera -- Poppy power, or, the thick-enough art of zombie dumbfoundment: Animal crackers (1930) -- Later astonishments. Fake dead Jew as cute zoo-idiot: Room service (1938) -- Pass Punchy's humiliated buddy huddle: At the circus (1939) -- Freeze Rusty's anal rage in a cozy void: Go west (1940) -- Lonely wacky's incremental lines of flight: The big store (1941) -- The bubble-blowing demarcator tickles totality: A night in Casablanca (1946) -- Bulge, glaze, pause, shock; or, the bushy-haired ragpicker's burnt offering: Love happy (1950) -- The idiot tumbles back to the beginning of time. The undeliverable ice of pinky's mom-mouth: Horse feathers (1932) -- The kippering, bopping, shushing, bear-hugging, beard-pulling bustle: Monkey business (1931) -- The pretzel glimmer-eye of stuffy's stuttering surge: A day at the races. |
Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
Subject |
Marx, Harpo, 1888-1964.
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Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
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Comedians -- United States -- Biography.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
ProQuest (Firm)
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ISBN |
9780520269002 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780520269019 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780520951983 (electronic bk.) |
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