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Engaging humor /
In Engaging Humor, Elliott Oring asks essential questions concerning humorous expression in contemporary society, examining how humor works, why it is employed, and what its messages might be. This provocative book is filled with examples of jokes and riddles that reveal humor to be a meaningful--ev...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2003]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Appropriate Incongruity Redux
- 2. The Senses of Absurd Humor
- 3. Joke Thoughts
- 4. The Humor of Hate
- 5. Blond Ambitions and Other Signs of the Times
- 6. Humor and the Suppression of Sentiment
- 7. The Joke as Gloss
- 8. Colonizing Humor
- 9. Sigmund Freud's Jewish Joke Book
- 10. The Context of Internet Humor
- Afterword
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index