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Laughter on the Fringes

Author : Anna Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190697113
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Laughter on the Fringes written by Anna Peterson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the impact that Athenian Old Comedy had on Greek writers of the imperial era. It is generally acknowledged that imperial-era Greeks responded to Athenian Old Comedy in one of two ways: either as a treasure trove of Atticisms or as a genre defined by and repudiated for its aggressive humor. Worthy of further consideration, however, is the degree to which both approaches, and particularly the latter one that relegated Old Comedy to the fringes of the literary canon, led authors to engage with the ironic and self-reflexive humor of Aristophanes, Eupolis and Cratinus. Authors ranging from serious moralizers (Plutarch and Aelius Aristides) to comic writers in their own right (Lucian, Alciphron) to other figures not often associated with Old Comedy (Libanius) adopted aspects of the genre to negotiate power struggles, facilitate literary and sophistic rivalries, and as a model for autobiographical writing. To varying degrees, these writers wove recognizable features of the genre (e.g. the parabasis, its agonistic language, the stage biographies of the individual poets) into their writings. The image of Old Comedy that emerges from this time is that of a genre in transition. It was, on the one hand, with the exception of Aristophanes' extant plays, on the verge of being almost completely lost; on the other hand, its reputation and several of its most characteristic elements were being renegotiated and reinvented.

Talking about Laughter

Author : Alan H. Sommerstein
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780191569685
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Talking about Laughter written by Alan H. Sommerstein and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-03-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together fourteen studies by Alan Sommerstein on Aristophanes and his fellow comic dramatists, some of which have not previously appeared in print. The studies cover almost all the major topics of Sommerstein's work - the nature and functions of comedy in Aristophanes' time, its connections with the society and politics of its day, the question of Aristophanes' own political stances, the light comedy can throw on classical Athenians' perception of basic social divisions (age, gender, citizen/alien, free/slave), comedy's exploitation of the expressive resources of the Greek language, the composition and production history of individual plays, and the history of the genre as a whole.

Feminism and the Religious Significance of Laughing Bodies

Author : Nicole Graham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040030521
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Feminism and the Religious Significance of Laughing Bodies written by Nicole Graham and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies the significance of the body through a feminist reconceptualisation of laughter as a means of insight. It positions itself within the emerging scholarship on religion and humour but distinguishes itself by moving away from the emphasis on humour and instead focuses on the place and role of laughter. Through a feminist reading of laughter, which is grounded in the philosophical and psychological works of William James, this book emphasises the importance of the body to offer an exploration of laughter as a means of insight. In doing so, it challenges the classificatory orders of knowledge by recognising and arguing for the value of the body in the creation of knowledge and understanding. To demonstrate the centrality of the body for insight laughter, and thus the creation of knowledge, this book engages with laughter within three thematic areas: religious experience, gendered experiences of laughter, and the ethics of laughter. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in religious studies, theology, gender studies, humour studies, philosophy, and the history of ideas.

The Psychology of Humor

Author : Rod A. Martin
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0080465994
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Psychology of Humor written by Rod A. Martin and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research on humor is carried out in a number of areas in psychology, including the cognitive (What makes something funny?), developmental (when do we develop a sense of humor?), and social (how is humor used in social interactions?) Although there is enough interest in the area to have spawned several societies, the literature is dispersed in a number of primary journals, with little in the way of integration of the material into a book. Dr. Martin is one of the best known researchers in the area, and his research goes across subdisciplines in psychology to be of wide appeal. This is a singly authored monograph that provides in one source, a summary of information researchers might wish to know about research into the psychology of humor. The material is scholarly, but the presentation of the material is suitable for people unfamiliar with the subject-making The Psychology of Humor suitable for use for advanced undergraduate and graduate level courses on the psychology of humor-which have not had a textbook source. 2007 AATH Book Award for Humor/Laughter Research category! Up-to-date coverage of research on humor and laughter in every area of psychology Research findings are integrated into a coherent conceptual framework Includes recent brain imaging studies, evolutionary models, and animal research Draws on contributions from sociology, linguistics, neuroscience, and anthropology Provides an overview of theories of humor and early research Explores applications of humor in psychotherapy, education, and the workplace Points out interesting topics for further research and promising research methodologies Written in a scholarly yet easily accessible style 2007 AATH Book Award for Humor/Laughter Research category

Carlotta's Intended

Author : Ruth McEnery Stuart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Carlotta's Intended written by Ruth McEnery Stuart and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What's So Funny About God?

Author : Steve Wilkens
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830855459
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book What's So Funny About God? written by Steve Wilkens and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you don't believe God has a sense of humor, just look in the mirror. Humor is a truly human phenomenon—crossing history, culture, and every stage of life. Jokes often touch on the biggest topics of our existence. And although it may seem simple on the surface, humor depends on the use of our highest faculties: language, intelligence, sympathy, sociability. To the philosopher Steve Wilkens, these facts about humor are evidence that God just has to be in there somewhere. Yet many Christians, scholars and laypeople alike, haven't taken humor seriously. In What’s So Funny About God? Wilkens launches an exploration of the connections between humor and many of the central topics of Christian theology. He argues that viewing Scripture and theology through the lens of humor brings fresh insight to our understanding of the gospel, helps us avoid the pitfalls of both naturalism and gnosticism, and facilitates a humble, honest, and appealing approach to faith. Wilkens turns this lens on the paradoxes of human nature, the Christian calendar, church life, and new readings of well-known biblical texts, including the book of Esther, the nativity narratives, and Jesus' own teachings. Taking into account the problems of suffering and the need for timely lament, he portrays the Christian story as one that ultimately ends in cosmic comedy. Full of wit and thoughtful jokes throughout, it's enough fun that you may not realize you're reading theology.

Dimensions of Laughter in Crime and Punishment

Author : John Spiegel
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781575910376
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Dimensions of Laughter in Crime and Punishment written by John Spiegel and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since human laughter served, in a sense, as Dostoevsky's model, the author pays some heed to the highly controversial subject of real-life laughter, along with the leading theories that seek to elucidate its causes and implications.".

The New York Times Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The New York Times Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1985-04 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

James Joyce’s Mandala

Author : Colm O’Shea
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000617742
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book James Joyce’s Mandala written by Colm O’Shea and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sanskrit word mandala can be translated as "sacred circle." Within the circle sits a microcosm of the universe and/or consciousness, repre-sented by icons. Eastern civilizations developed the spiritual-artistic practice of creating mandalas—with sand, paint, and architecture—to high technical sophistication, making manifest a geometry with layers of esoteric meaning for both the mandala artist and the initiated spectator. James Joyce’s Mandala outlines and explains this iconic sacred geometry, and assesses to what extent Joyce’s works of literature, in particular Finnegans Wake, can be understood as mandalic constructs. Using exam-ples from Dubliners to the Wake, we see how fundamental to Joyce’s fiction is the issue of spiritual paralysis (a problem the mandala attempts to dissolve) and also how fascinated he was by geometric imagery and symmetry, the technical devices employed in mandala construction. This is the first book-length comparison of Joyce’s work with the mythic structure of the mandala. Never discounting the richness of Joyce’s genius, it uses his "collideorscape" to explore the secrets of the mandala principle as much as it uses mandala theory to illuminate his famed book of the night.

Laughter

Author : Henri Bergson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Laughter written by Henri Bergson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Art and Laughter

Author : Sheri Klein
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857724630
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Art and Laughter written by Sheri Klein and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to take seriously (though not too seriously) the surprisingly neglected role of humour in art. "Art and Laughter" looks back to comic masters such as Hogarth and Daumier and to Dada, Surrealism and Pop Art, asking what makes us laugh and why. It explores the use of comedy in art from satire and irony to pun, parody and black and bawdy humour. Encouraging laughter in the hallowed space of the gallery, Sheri Klein praises the contemporary artist as 'clown' - often overlooked in favour of the role of artist as 'serious' commentator - and takes us on a tour of the comic work of Red Grooms, Cary Leibowitz, 'The Hairy Who', Richard Prince, Bruce Nauman, Jeff Koons, William Wegman, Vik Muniz and many more. She seeks out those rare smiles in art - from the Mona Lisa onwards - and highlights too the pleasures of the cute, the camp and the downright kitsch.

Surprised by Laughter

Author : Terry Lindvall
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1595554793
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (955 download)

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Download or read book Surprised by Laughter written by Terry Lindvall and published by HarperChristian + ORM. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For C. S. Lewis, merriment was serious business, and like no book before it, Surprised by Laughter explains why. Author Terry Lindvall takes readers on a highly amusing and deeply meaningful journey through the life and letters of one of the most beloved Christian thinkers and writers. As Lindvall shows, the unique magic of Lewis's approach was his belief that explosive and infectious joy dwells deep in the heart of Christian faith. Readers can never fully understand Lewis, his life or his legacy until they learn to laugh with him.

Laughter from Realism to Modernism

Author : Alberto Godioli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351191012
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Laughter from Realism to Modernism written by Alberto Godioli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As best exemplified by the works of Pirandello, Svevo, Palazzeschi, and Gadda, Italian modernist fiction is particularly rich in bizarre and ludicrous characters, whose originality is often derided by a uniform society. On the other hand, laughter can also be used by the author (or by the misfits themselves) as a reaction to the levelling pressure of social life - Pirandello's umorismo, Svevo's irony, Palazzeschi's controdolore, and Gadda's satire are all good cases in point. Looked at from this perspective, early 20th-century Italian fiction can set the basis for an innovative reflection on broader comparative themes. What is the role of laughter and individual diversity in international Modernism? How is modernist eccentricity related to the representations of originality in the 18th and 19th centuries, from Sterne to Balzac and Dostoevsky? And what does it tell us about the fear of homogenisation as a crucial aspect of the modern social imaginary? Building on the analysis of a large corpus of short stories and other major works by the Italian authors at issue, as well as on a series of previously undetected intertextual links with the classics of European Realism, this book is the first systematic attempt at answering such questions. Alberto Godioli is Teaching Fellow in Italian at the University of Edinburgh."

Lippincott's Monthly Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lippincott's Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Novels [originally Published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, 1886-1894]

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Novels [originally Published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, 1886-1894] written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Jamacian Interlude

Author : Robert Gerallt Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Jamacian Interlude written by Robert Gerallt Jones and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Creation of Me, Them and Us

Author : Heather Marsh
Publisher : MustRead Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 1989783252
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book The Creation of Me, Them and Us written by Heather Marsh and published by MustRead Incorporated. This book was released on 2020-01-08 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Binding Chaos, this book brings us back to the beginning. The beginning of designing a better method of governance and way of living is to look at the structure of our self. The scope and originality of this book present a radical challenge to a seldom examined worldview. With an extremely wide reach and richness of detail, The Creation of Me, Them and Us sets the stage for further discussions of institutional reform by tackling the fundamental questions of who are we, what do we want, and why do we act the way we do? These questions (and answers) are fundamental in understanding a world that may seem incomprehensible today.