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Author : Sir Alan Patrick Herbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (786 download)
Download or read book The English Laugh written by Sir Alan Patrick Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terry Eagleton
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300244789
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Humour written by Terry Eagleton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture—by one of its greatest exponents Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves. Why do we laugh? What are we to make of the sheer variety of laughter, from braying and cackling to sniggering and chortling? Is humour subversive, or can it defuse dissent? Can we define wit? Packed with illuminating ideas and a good many excellent jokes, the book critically examines various well-known theories of humour, including the idea that it springs from incongruity and the view that it reflects a mildly sadistic form of superiority to others. Drawing on a wide range of literary and philosophical sources, Terry Eagleton moves from Aristotle and Aquinas to Hobbes, Freud, and Bakhtin, looking in particular at the psychoanalytical mechanisms underlying humour and its social and political evolution over the centuries.
Author : Joanna Cole
Publisher : Doubleday Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780385185592
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (855 download)
Download or read book The Laugh Book written by Joanna Cole and published by Doubleday Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of jokes, riddles, tongue twisters, tricks, games, poems, and stories.
Author : Alan Herbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (633 download)
Download or read book The English laugh written by Alan Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Rosen
Publisher : Scholastic UK
ISBN 13 : 1407173677
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Laugh Out Loud Joke Book written by Michael Rosen and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Laugh Out Loud Joke Book is jam-packed with over 300 hilarious jokes written and selected by bestselling children's author Michael Rosen. In association with the new Laugh Out Loud Book Prize - a new series of awards for funny children's books in the UK.
Author : Helen Rutter
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1338652281
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (386 download)
Download or read book The Boy Who Made Everyone Laugh written by Helen Rutter and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When life is funny, make some jokes about it. Billy Plimpton has a big dream: to become a famous comedian when he grows up. He already knows a lot of jokes, but thinks he has one big problem standing in his way: his stutter. At first, Billy thinks the best way to deal with this is to . . . never say a word. That way, the kids in his new school won’t hear him stammer. But soon he finds out this is NOT the best way to deal with things. (For one thing, it’s very hard to tell a joke without getting a word out.) As Billy makes his way toward the spotlight, a lot of funny things (and some less funny things) happen to him. In the end, the whole school will know -- If you think you can hold Billy Plimpton back, be warned: The joke will soon be on you!
Author : Victor Hugo
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775452786
Total Pages : 821 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)
Download or read book The Man Who Laughs written by Victor Hugo and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 821 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moving away from the explicitly political content of his previous novels, Victor Hugo turns to social commentary in The Man Who Laughs, an 1869 work that was made into a popular film in the 1920s. The plot deals with a band of miscreants who deliberately deform children to make them more effective beggars, as well as the long-lasting emotional and social damage that this abhorrent practice inflicts upon its victims.
Author : Michelle Preen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)
Download or read book The Lost Laugh written by Michelle Preen and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-20 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spotty the Hyena has lost his laugh. How did this happen? Where could it be? And can the other animals help him find it? Beautiful colored illustrations covering all pages with short sentences, for better comprehension for novice readers. Although your child may easily read this book on his own, we still recommend that an adult accompany him in his reading, because this kind of story is educational, with many morals for children. And it is up to the parents to extract these morals. You can even ask your children to write them down and learn them if necessary. Happy reading and take care of your child.
Author : Milan Kundera
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063290693
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (632 download)
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.
Author : Anca Parvulescu
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262514745
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Laughter written by Anca Parvulescu and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovering an archive of laughter, from the forbidden giggle to the explosive guffaw. Most of our theories of laughter are not concerned with laughter. Rather, their focus is the laughable object, whether conceived of as the comic, the humorous, jokes, the grotesque, the ridiculous, or the ludicrous. In Laughter, Anca Parvulescu proposes a return to the materiality of the burst of laughter itself. She sets out to uncover an archive of laughter, inviting us to follow its rhythms and listen to its tones. Historically, laughter—especially the passionate burst of laughter—has often been a faux pas. Manuals for conduct, abetted by philosophical treatises and literary and visual texts, warned against it, offering special injunctions to ladies to avoid jollity that was too boisterous. Returning laughter to the history of the passions, Parvulescu anchors it at the point where the history of the grimacing face meets the history of noise. In the civilizing process that leads to laughter's “falling into disrepute,” as Nietzsche famously put it, we can see the formless, contorted face in laughter being slowly corrected into a calm, social smile. How did the twentieth century laugh? Parvulescu points to a gallery of twentieth-century laughers and friends of laughter, arguing that it is through Georges Bataille that the century laughed its most distinct laugh. In Bataille's wake, laughter becomes the passion at the heart of poststructuralism. Looking back at the century from this vantage point, Parvulescu revisits four of its most challenging projects: modernism, the philosophical avant-gardes, feminism, and cinema. The result is an overview of the twentieth century as seen through the laughs that burst at some of its most convoluted junctures.
Author : Allen Shamblin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781582460581
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Don't Laugh at Me written by Allen Shamblin and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated version of a song pointing out that in spite of our differences, we are all the same in God's eyes.
Author : Rose Ann Tahe
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580897940
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (88 download)
Download or read book First Laugh--Welcome, Baby! written by Rose Ann Tahe and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Navajo families, the first person to make a new baby laugh hosts the child's First Laugh Ceremony. Who will earn the honor in this story? The First Laugh Ceremony is a celebration held to welcome a new member of the community. As everyone--from Baby's nima (mom) to nadi (big sister) to cheii (grandfather)--tries to elicit the joyous sound from Baby, readers are introduced to details about Navajo life and the Navajo names for family members. Back matter includes information about other cultural ceremonies that welcome new babies and children, including man yue celebration (China), sanskaras (Hindu) and aquiqa (Muslim).
Author : Craig Smith
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545261244
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (452 download)
Download or read book The Wonky Donkey written by Craig Smith and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kids will love this cumulative and hysterical read-aloud that features a free downloadable song "I was walking down the road and I saw... a donkey, Hee Haw And he only had three legs He was a wonky donkey." Children will be in fits of laughter with this perfect read-aloud tale of an endearing donkey. By the book's final page, readers end up with a spunky hanky-panky cranky stinky-dinky lanky honky-tonky winky wonky donkey Download the free song at www.scholastic.com/wonkydonkey.
Author : Scott Weems
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465080804
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Ha! written by Scott Weems and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining tour of the science of humor and laughter Humor, like pornography, is famously difficult to define. We know it when we see it, but is there a way to figure out what we really find funny -- and why? In this fascinating investigation into the science of humor and laughter, cognitive neuroscientist Scott Weems uncovers what's happening in our heads when we giggle, guffaw, or double over with laughter. While we typically think of humor in terms of jokes or comic timing, in Ha! Weems proposes a provocative new model. Humor arises from inner conflict in the brain, he argues, and is part of a larger desire to comprehend a complex world. Showing that the delight that comes with "getting" a punchline is closely related to the joy that accompanies the insight to solve a difficult problem, Weems explores why surprise is such an important element in humor, why computers are terrible at recognizing what's funny, and why it takes so long for a tragedy to become acceptable comedic fodder. From the role of insult jokes to the benefit of laughing for our immune system, Ha! reveals why humor is so idiosyncratic, and why how-to books alone will never help us become funnier people. Packed with the latest research, illuminating anecdotes, and even a few jokes, Ha! lifts the curtain on this most human of qualities. From the origins of humor in our brains to its life on the standup comedy circuit, this book offers a delightful tour of why humor is so important to our daily lives.
Author : Sir Alan Herbert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The English Laugh written by Sir Alan Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joy Wiltenburg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000593614
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Laughing Histories written by Joy Wiltenburg and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laughing Histories breaks new ground by exploring moments of laughter in early modern Europe, showing how laughter was inflected by gender and social power. "I dearly love a laugh," declared Jane Austen's heroine Elizabeth Bennet, and her wit won the heart of the aristocratic Mr. Darcy. Yet the widely read Earl of Chesterfield asserted that only "the mob" would laugh out loud; the gentleman should merely smile. This literary contrast raises important historical questions: how did social rules constrain laughter? Did the highest elites really laugh less than others? How did laughter play out in relations between the sexes? Through fascinating case studies of individuals such as the Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini, the French aristocrat Madame de Sévigné, and the rising civil servant and diarist Samuel Pepys, Laughing Histories reveals the multiple meanings of laughter, from the court to the tavern and street, in a complex history that paved the way for modern laughter. With its study of laughter in relation to power, aggression, gender, sex, class, and social bonding, Laughing Histories is perfect for readers interested in the history of emotions, cultural history, gender history, and literature.
Author : Stephanie Davies
Publisher : Crown House Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845908120
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Laughology written by Stephanie Davies and published by Crown House Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-24 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to using laughter and humour as a thinking skill to feel better and communicate more effectively. This book will explain simple techniques that will improve the reader's ability to gain a more positive perspective in difficult situations and increase their happiness through adopting the techniques from the Laughology model.The key subjects covered are What is laughter;What is humour; The psychological connection;
