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At whom are we laughing? : humor in Romance language literatures /

They say that laughter is a purely human phenomenon, so exclusively ours that we brook no intruders except, of course, for the laughing hyena, the laughing jackass (officially known as the kookaburra bird of Australia), laughing matters, laughing gas, or the perennial laughing stock. But what is hum...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Da Silva, Zenia Sacks, Pell, Gregory M. (Gregory Michael)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:They say that laughter is a purely human phenomenon, so exclusively ours that we brook no intruders except, of course, for the laughing hyena, the laughing jackass (officially known as the kookaburra bird of Australia), laughing matters, laughing gas, or the perennial laughing stock. But what is humor, that funny thing so varied in its colors and tones, so encompassing in its themes, so different from time to time and place to place? And when we poke fun, at whom are we really laughing? At W ...
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xx, 391 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781443864725
1443864722
1322051372
9781322051376