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A History of English Laughter

Author : Manfred Pfister
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042012882
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book A History of English Laughter written by Manfred Pfister and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is there a 'history' of laughter? Or isn't laughter an anthropological constant rather and thus beyond history, a human feature that has defined humanity as homo ridens from cave man and cave woman to us? The contributors to this collection of essays believe that laughter does have a history and try to identify continuities and turning points of this history by studying a series of English texts, both canonical and non-canonical, from Anglosaxon to contemporary. As this is not another book on the history of the comic or of comedy it does not restrict itself to comic genres; some of the essays actually go out of their way to discover laughter at the margins of texts where one would not have expected it all - in Beowulf, or Paradise Lost or the Gothic Novel. Laughter at the margins of texts, which often coincides with laughter from the margins of society and its orthodoxies, is one of the special concerns of this book. This goes together with an interest in 'impure' forms of laughter - in laughter that is not the serene and intellectually or emotionally distanced response to a comic stimulus which is at the heart of many philosophical theories of the comic, but emotionally disturbed and troubled, aggressive and transgressive, satanic and sardonic laughter. We do not ask, then, what is comic, but: who laughs at and with whom where, when, why, and how?

Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Ancient Philosophy

Author : Pierre Destrée
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190460547
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Ancient Philosophy written by Pierre Destrée and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ancient philosophers were very interested in the themes of laughter, humor and comedy. They theorized about laughter and its causes, moralized about the appropriate uses of humor and what it is appropriate to laugh at, and wrote treaties on comedic composition. Further, they were often merciless in ridiculing their opponents' positions, often borrowing comedic devices and techniques from comic poetry and drama to do so. The volume is organized around three themes that were important for ancient philosophers: the psychology of laughter, the ethical and social norms governing laughter and humor. and the philosophical uses of humor and comedic technique"--

Laughter, Pain, and Wonder

Author : David Richman
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874133882
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (338 download)

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Download or read book Laughter, Pain, and Wonder written by David Richman and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work's chief aim is to restore to readers, performers, and audiences the richness and vitality of Shakespeare's comedies. Richman explores the way in which a reader's relations to Shakespeare's literary texts differ from those of the relations between performers of Shakespeare's works and their audiences. Richman also examines the forms of humor and empathy that Shakespeare's comedies elicit.

Surprised by Laughter

Author : Terry Lindvall
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN 13 : 1595554785
Total Pages : 498 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 Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprised by Laughter looks at the career and writings of C. S. Lewis and discovers a man whose life and beliefs were sustained by joy and humor. All of his life, C. S. Lewis possessed a spirit of individuality. An atheist from childhood, he became a Christian as an adult and eventually knew international acclaim as a respected theologian. He was known worldwide for his works of fiction, especially the Chronicles of Narnia; and for his books on life and faith, including Mere Christianity, A Grief Observed, and Surprised by Joy. But perhaps the most visible difference in his life was his abiding sense of humor. It was through this humor that he often reached his readers and listeners, allowing him to effectively touch so many lives. Terry Lindvall takes an in-depth look at Lewis's joyful approach toward living, dividing his study of C. S. Lewis's wit into the four origins of laughter in Uncle Screwtape's eleventh letter to a junior devil in Lewis's The Screwtape Letters: joy, fun, the joke proper, and flippancy. Lindvall writes, "One bright and compelling feature we can see, sparking in his sunlight and dancing in his moonlight, is laughter. Yet it is not too large to see at once because it inhabited all Lewis was and did." Surprised by Laughter reveals a Lewis who enjoyed the gift of laughter, and who willingly shared that gift with others in order to spread his faith.

Psychological Studies

Author : University of Mysore. Psychological laboratory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Psychological Studies written by University of Mysore. Psychological laboratory and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Laughter

Author : Robert R. Provine
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101659254
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Laughter written by Robert R. Provine and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do men and women laugh at the same things? Is laughter contagious? Has anyone ever really died laughing? Is laughing good for your health? Drawing upon ten years of research into this most common-yet complex and often puzzling-human phenomenon, Dr. Robert Provine, the world's leading scientific expert on laughter, investigates such aspects of his subject as its evolution, its role in social relationships, its contagiousness, its neural mechanisms, and its health benefits. This is an erudite, wide-ranging, witty, and long-overdue exploration of a frequently surprising subject.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Author : Milan Kundera
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063290693
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting written by Milan Kundera and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An absolutely dazzling entertainment. . . . Arousing on every level—political, erotic, intellectual, and above all, humorous." —Newsweek "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting calls itself a novel, although it is part fairy tale, part literary criticism, part political tract, part musicology, and part autobiography. It can call itself whatever it wants to, because the whole is genius." —New York Times Rich in its stories, characters, and imaginative range, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting is the novel that brought Milan Kundera his first big international success in the late 1970s. Like all his work, it is valuable for far more than its historical implications. In seven wonderfully integrated parts, different aspects of human existence are magnified and reduced, reordered and emphasized, newly examined, analyzed, and experienced.

Annual Report

Author : Connecticut. State Board of Agriculture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report written by Connecticut. State Board of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Divine Play, Sacred Laughter, and Spiritual Understanding

Author : P. Laude
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403980586
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Divine Play, Sacred Laughter, and Spiritual Understanding written by P. Laude and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-10-20 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study in the relationship between religion and the comic focuses on the ways in which the latter fulfils a central function in the sacred understanding of reality of pre-modern cultures and the spiritual life of religious traditions. The central thesis is that figures such as tricksters, sacred clowns, and holy fools play an essential role in bridging the gap between the divine and the human by integrating the element of disequilibrium that results from the contact between incommensurable realities. This interdisciplinary and cross-cultural series of essays is devoted to spiritual, anthropological, and literary characters and phenomena that point to a deeper understanding of the various mythological, ceremonial, and mystical ways in which the fundamental ambiguity of existence is symbolized and acted out. Given its interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective, this volume will appeal to scholars from a variety of fields.

The Nature Of Laughter

Author : Gregory, J C
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136322353
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book The Nature Of Laughter written by Gregory, J C and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. This is Volume X of thirty-eight in the General Psychology series. Written in 1924, this book looks at the aspects such as wit and the ludicrous, varieties, causes, function and aesthetics of laughter and its place in civilisation.

Belgravia

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Belgravia written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the New York State Bankers Association

Author : New York State Bankers Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the New York State Bankers Association written by New York State Bankers Association and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the constitution and by-laws, list of officers and members.

The Joy of Laughter

Author : Norman Barasch
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781440167102
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book The Joy of Laughter written by Norman Barasch and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this memoir, rich with humor, a comedy writer guides us on his personal journey from the impoverished depths of the Great Depression to the top of his profession. Despite the ups and downs, the joys and sorrows, he helped produce laugh lines for performers from the gagster, Henny Youngman, to sketch writing for the brilliant comedienne, Carol Burnett. He also wrote for the Benson and Rhoda television series as well as numerous weekly variety shows and sitcoms, featuring such stars as Danny Kaye, Dom DeLuise, Fred Allen, Herb Shriner, Alan King, Nathan Lane, and countless others. As a Playwright, he wrote Broadway-produced plays in collaboration with his long-time partner, the late Carroll B. Moore, Jr. One such play, Send Me No Flowers, became a hit movie, starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day. He later wrote the bittersweet off-Broadway comedy Standing By, as a tribute to the courage of his daughter, Emily, in her battle against a serious disease. The Joy of Laughter also provides an intimate peek into some of the more hilarious behind-the-scenes professional and personal shenanigans of the Broadway/Hollywood/Beverly Hills show business community.

Debates

Author : South Australia. Parliament. Legislative Council
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1008 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Debates written by South Australia. Parliament. Legislative Council and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reciprocity with Cuba

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Reciprocity with Cuba written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Cross-Categorial Classification

Author : Serge Sagna
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110632764
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Cross-Categorial Classification written by Serge Sagna and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Languages in which non-finite verbs (infinitives, gerunds etc.) are classified using the same linguistic means as nouns are rare. This typologically unusual phenomenon is found in some Atlantic (Niger-Congo) languages, including Jóola languages like Eegimaa, Fogny and Kwatay, where several different noun class/gender prefixes (NCPs) are used to classify both nouns and verbs. In this book, it is argued following Sagna (2008), that these parallel morphosyntactic classifications in the nominal domain and verbal domains also reflect parallel semantic categorisation of entities and events. The main topics investigated in this book are word class flexibility between nouns and verbs, non-finiteness, noun class/gender (where morphological classes are analysed separately from agreement classes) and the semantic principles underlying the categorisation of entities and events. One of the central findings proposed in this book is that instances of NCP alternations on non-finite verbs reflect strategies of event delimitation. This book will be of interest to scholars investigating parts-of-speech systems, finiteness, systems of nominal and verbal classification, and linguistic categorization.

On the Comic and Laughter

Author : Vladimir Propp
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442697202
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book On the Comic and Laughter written by Vladimir Propp and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-11-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive investigation of the forms and functions of the comic, this lively and engaging English critical edition will be welcomed by those interested in laughter, comedy, folklore, Russian literature, and specific authors such as Gogol, Pushkin, Chekhov, Rabelais, Molière, and Shakespeare. The direct, humorous, and provocative style of this work, which tackles the subject of humour with a vast array of vivid examples encountered on every page, will certainly appeal to the contemporary reader. Vladimir Propp takes various forms of laughter in literature and real life and addresses questions such as the comic of similarity, the comic of difference, parody, duping, incongruity, lying, ritual laughter, and carnival laughter. The author of the widely acclaimed Morphology of the Folktale has written an original, comprehensive, and exciting study on how humour works, and on everything you wanted to know about the genre, in a clear, approachable, and insightful manner.