The European Journal of Humour Research

Vol 13, No 2 (2025)

Book review: Knox, Simone and Kai Hanno Schwind (2019). Friends: A Reading of the Sitcom. Palgrave Macmillan.

Theodora Saltidou

Abstract

Book review

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