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Looking at laughter : humor, power, and transgression in Roman visual culture, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250 /
In this fresh, accessible, and beautifully illustrated book, his third to examine an aspect of Roman visual culture, John R. Clarke explores the question, "What made Romans laugh?" Looking at Laughter examines a heterogeneous corpus of visual material, from the crudely obscene to the exqui...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Visual humor. Words or images? Degrees of visuality in Roman humor ; Funny faces -onstage and off ; Double takes ; Apotropaic laughter
- pt. 2. Social humor. Power over the other
- or the other's power? Laughing at the Pygmy and the Aethiops ; Who's laughing? Modern scholars and ancient viewers in class conflict ; Parody in elite visual culture at Pompeii: heroes, gods, and foundation myths
- pt. 3. Sexual humor. Sexual humor and the gods ; Laughing at human sexual folly.