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Reflective Laughter

Author : Lesley Milne
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857287427
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book Reflective Laughter written by Lesley Milne and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2004-09-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The end of the Cold War brought new opportunities to explore the long tradition and myriad uses of humour through over two centuries of Russian literature and culture. 'Reflective Laughter' is the first book devoted to an overview of this subject. Bringing together contributions from a number of distinguished scholars from Russia, Europe and North America, this volume ranges from the classics of nineteenth-century literature through to the intellectual and popular comedic culture, both state-sponsored and official, of the twentieth-century, taking in journalism, propaganda, scholarly discourse, jokes, films and television. In doing so, it explores how our understanding remains distorted by the polarization of the East and West during the Cold War.

Reflections Upon Laughter

Author : Francis Hutcheson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Reflections Upon Laughter written by Francis Hutcheson and published by . This book was released on 1750 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reflections, Laughter, Meditations

Author : Lilia Westmore
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1477152172
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book Reflections, Laughter, Meditations written by Lilia Westmore and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflection is how our thoughts examine the differences and similarities between our past and our present. We scrutinize our actions/reactions and try to understand how and why we choose one method from another, to resolve questions of priorities. We think back in time and focus upon issues that affect our decisions. We reflect to justify our choices, and to rationalize the steps we have taken to reach a solution to a puzzle. We reflect because we are human beings. According to the writer, Arnold Glasow, laughter is "A tranquiliser with no side effects". Another writer, Patricia Nelson, call laughter "A noisy smile". Still another writer, Steven Goldberg, says laughter is "A universal bond that draws all men closer". The saying, laughter is good for the soul, is a popular quote we hear in our everyday life. Laughter gives us a feeling of goodness that translates into actions of kindness, generosity, and philanthrophy. Laugher is our way of easing problems that beset us, and thereby see clearly the solution that escaped us. When we laugh, we give ourselves a chance to contemplate, understand, and take steps to solve difficulties. We laugh when we are embarrassed. We laugh at silly situations. We laugh at ourselves, proving that we are as human as anybody else. We meditate deeply into our thoughts, to contemplate, to ponder whether or not we have chosen the right action to resolve problems. We deliberate over dilemmas, choosing, we hope, is the right way out of a predicament. We learn to solve arithmetical problems. We dream, we fantasize and imagine greater things to happen. We aim for a future life, the dream our life, and we take much pleasure in aspiring for it and finally accomplishing the dream into reality. We build castles in the air that seem impossible to fulfill but if we push to become an architect, then we go on to build that castle of our dream. We desire to become a judge in a high court and our chance of one day being one is as attainable as going to college and graduating. Our meditations become our dreams, our reflections, and our laughter.

Plato's Laughter

Author : Sonja Madeleine Tanner
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438467370
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Laughter written by Sonja Madeleine Tanner and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counters the long-standing, solemn interpretation of Platos dialogues with one centered on the philosophical and pedagogical significance of Socrates as a comic figure. Plato was described as a boor and it was said that he never laughed out loud. Yet his dialogues abound with puns, jokes, and humor. Sonja Madeleine Tanner argues that in Platos dialogues Socrates plays a comical hero who draws heavily from the tradition of comedy in ancient Greece, but also reforms laughter to be applicable to all persons and truly shaming to none. Socrates introduces a form of self-reflective laughter that encourages, rather than stifles, philosophical inquiry. Laughter in the dialoguesboth explicit and impliedsuggests a view of human nature as incongruous with ourselves, simultaneously falling short of, and superseding, our own capacities. What emerges is a picture of human nature that bears a striking resemblance to Socrates own, laughable depiction, one inspired by Dionysus, but one that remains ultimately intractable. The book analyzes specific instances of laughter and the comical from the Apology, Laches, Charmides, Cratylus, Euthydemus, and the Symposium to support this, and to further elucidate the philosophical consequences of recognizing Platos laughter.

This Time Together

Author : Carol Burnett
Publisher : Crown Archetype
ISBN 13 : 0307461203
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book This Time Together written by Carol Burnett and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This touching and hilarious memoir is 100 percent Carol Burnett—funny, irreverent, and irresistible. Carol Burnett is one of the most beloved and revered actresses and performers in America. The Carol Burnett Show was seen each week by millions of adoring fans and won twenty-five Emmys in its remarkable eleven-year run. Now, in This Time Together, Carol really lets her hair down and tells one funny or touching or memorable story after another. In engaging anecdotes, Carol discusses her remarkable friendships with stars such as Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, Cary Grant, and Julie Andrews; the background behind famous scenes, like the moment she swept down the stairs in her curtain-rod dress in the legendary “Went with the Wind” skit; and things that would happen only to Carol—the prank with Julie Andrews that went wrong in front of the First Lady; the famous Tarzan Yell that saved her during a mugging; and the time she faked a wooden leg to get served in a famous ice cream emporium. This poignant look back allows us to cry with the actress during her sorrows, rejoice in her successes, and finally, always, to laugh.

Reflections upon Laughter, and Remarks on the Fable of the Bees by B. de Mandeville

Author : Francis Hutcheson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Reflections upon Laughter, and Remarks on the Fable of the Bees by B. de Mandeville written by Francis Hutcheson and published by . This book was released on 1758 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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

Author : Karl-Josef Kuschel
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 : 9780826406606
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Laughter written by Karl-Josef Kuschel and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1994 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, theologian Kuschel traces a fascinating story of laughter: from Sarah in the Hebrew Bible through Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Mozart, Kafka, and Umberto Eco in The Name of the Rose. Kuschel discusses the foundations of Christian laughter in the New Testament and, in contrast, the Christian condemnation of laughter among the church fathers and in the monastic tradition.

Authoritarian Laughter

Author : Neringa Klumbytė
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501766708
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Authoritarian Laughter written by Neringa Klumbytė and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authoritarian Laughter explores the political history of the satire and humor magazine Broom published in Soviet Lithuania. Artists, writers, and journalists were required to create state-sponsored Soviet humor and serve the Communist Party after Lithuania was incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940. Neringa Klumbytė investigates official attempts to shape citizens into Soviet subjects and engage them through a culture of popular humor. Broom was multidirectional—it both facilitated Communist Party agendas and expressed opposition toward the Soviet regime. Official satire and humor in Soviet Lithuania increasingly created dystopian visions of Soviet modernity and were a forum for critical ideas and nationalist sentiments that were mobilized in anti-Soviet revolutionary laughter in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Authoritarian Laughter illustrates that Soviet Western peripheries were unstable and their governance was limited. While authoritarian states engage in a statecraft of the everyday and seek to engineer intimate lives, authoritarianism is defied not only in revolutions, but in the many stories people tell each other about themselves in jokes, cartoons, and satires.

Reflective Laughter

Author : Lesley Milne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781843311188
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Reflective Laughter written by Lesley Milne and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Essay on Laughter

Author : James Sully
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book An Essay on Laughter written by James Sully and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plato's Laughter

Author : Sonja Madeleine Tanner
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438467389
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Laughter written by Sonja Madeleine Tanner and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counters the long-standing, solemn interpretation of Plato’s dialogues with one centered on the philosophical and pedagogical significance of Socrates as a comic figure. Plato was described as a boor and it was said that he never laughed out loud. Yet his dialogues abound with puns, jokes, and humor. Sonja Madeleine Tanner argues that in Plato’s dialogues Socrates plays a comical hero who draws heavily from the tradition of comedy in ancient Greece, but also reforms laughter to be applicable to all persons and truly shaming to none. Socrates introduces a form of self-reflective laughter that encourages, rather than stifles, philosophical inquiry. Laughter in the dialogues—both explicit and implied—suggests a view of human nature as incongruous with ourselves, simultaneously falling short of, and superseding, our own capacities. What emerges is a picture of human nature that bears a striking resemblance to Socrates’ own, laughable depiction, one inspired by Dionysus, but one that remains ultimately intractable. The book analyzes specific instances of laughter and the comical from the Apology, Laches, Charmides, Cratylus, Euthydemus, and the Symposium to support this, and to further elucidate the philosophical consequences of recognizing Plato’s laughter. Sonja Madeleine Tanner is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and the author of In Praise of Plato’s Poetic Imagination.

I Heard God Laugh: A Practical Guide to Life's Essential Daily Habit

Author : Matthew Kelly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781635821383
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book I Heard God Laugh: A Practical Guide to Life's Essential Daily Habit written by Matthew Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Your Life Working? Most of us are trying to put together the jigsaw puzzle we call life without a very important piece. Over time this becomes incredibly frustrating. In this extraordinary book, Matthew Kelly powerfully demonstrates that we cannot live the life we have imagined, or experience the joy we yearn for, unless we learn to tend the soul. From there, with his classic style of practical wisdom, he teaches us how to remedy this problem. When our bodies are hungry, our stomachs growl. When our souls are hungry, we become irritable, restless, confused, overwhelmed, exhausted, anxious, discontent, and tend to focus on the things that matter least and neglect the things that matter most.

Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840–1930

Author : Jonathan Taylor
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030114139
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840–1930 written by Jonathan Taylor and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840-1930 investigates the strange, complex, even paradoxical relationship between laughter, on the one hand, and violence, war, horror, death, on the other. It does so in relation to philosophy, politics, and key nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary texts, by Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Gosse, Wyndham Lewis and Katherine Mansfield – texts which explore the far reaches of Schadenfreude, and so-called ‘superiority theories’ of laughter, pushing these theories to breaking point. In these literary texts, the violent superiority often ascribed to laughter is seen as radically unstable, co-existing with its opposite: an anarchic sense of equality. Laughter, humour and comedy are slippery, duplicitous, ambivalent, self-contradictory hybrids, fusing apparently discordant elements. Now and then, though, literary and philosophical texts also dream of a different kind of laughter, one which reaches beyond its alloys – a transcendent, ‘perfect’ laughter which exists only in and for itself.

Comedy, Seriously

Author : D. Nikulin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137415142
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Comedy, Seriously written by D. Nikulin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comedy, Seriously provides a philosophical interpretation of comedy and argues that comedy displays a particular kind of rationality that reflects philosophical thinking. In particular, that comedy is defined not so much by laughter or jokes, but rather the structure of its plot, which is isomorphic with that of the philosophical argument. Comedy allows for the resolution of a conflict and the achievement of well-being and equality through action that follows the comic plot. Moreover, such action is propelled by the 'thinker on stage,' who, as socially and politically oppressed, contributes to the liberation of all and the achievement of the good life. Comedy, therefore, establishes the universal pattern for justice and well-being and allows us to rethink the notion of subjectivity not as the modern isolated subject, but rather as integrated with others through shared action and dialogical involvement.

The Positive Psychology of Laughter and Humour

Author : Freda Gonot-Schoupinsky
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1837538344
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book The Positive Psychology of Laughter and Humour written by Freda Gonot-Schoupinsky and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the authors’ diverse backgrounds and expertise, this is the first academic volume dedicated to the rarely discussed topic of laughter and humour in positive psychology.

The Psychology of Humor

Author : Jeffrey H Goldstein
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1483288544
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book The Psychology of Humor written by Jeffrey H Goldstein and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Psychology of Humor: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Issues examines theoretical perspectives and empirical issues concerning the psychology of humor. Theoretical views of humor range from the physiological to the sociological and anthropological. The relations between humor, laughter, and smiling are considered, along with the connection between collative variables and arousal. Comprised of 13 chapters, this book begins with an introduction to the history of thought and major theoretical issues on humor, followed by a description of models of different aspects of humor. The next section deals with empirical issues in which selected research areas are given detailed attention. The relations between humor, laughter, and smiling, on the one hand, and collative variables and arousal, on the other, are analyzed. Subsequent chapters explore the cognitive origins of incongruity humor by comparing fantasy assimilation and reality assimilation; a two-stage model for the appreciation of jokes and cartoons; and the social functions and physiological correlates of humor. The relationship between arousal potential and funniness of jokes is also explored, together with humor judgments as a function of reference groups and identification classes. The final chapter presents an annotated bibliography of published papers on humor in the research literature and an analysis of trends between 1900 and 1971. This monograph will be of interest to psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and behavioral scientists.