On the comic and laughter /
The author of the widely acclaimed Morphology of the Folktale has written an original, comprehensive, and exciting study on how humour works, and on everything you wanted to know about the genre, in a clear, approachable, and insightful manner.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Ruso |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2009]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Jean-Patrick Debbeche and Paul Perron
- 1. Methodology
- 2. Types of Laughter and Ridiculing Laughter as a Type
- 3. Those Who Laugh and Those Who Do Not
- 4. Ridiculous in Nature
- 5. Preliminary Observations
- 6. Physical Side of Humans
- 7. Comic of Similarity
- 8. Comic of Difference
- 9. Humans Disguised as Animals
- 10. Humans as Things
- 11. Ridiculing the Professions
- 12. Parody
- 13. Comic Exaggeration
- 14. Foiled Plans
- 15. Duping
- 16. Incongruity
- 17. Lying
- 18. Verbal Devices of the Comic
- 19. Comic Characters
- 20. Role Exchange: 'Much Ado About Nothing'
- 21. Benign Laughter
- 22. Bitter and Cynical Laughter
- 23. Joyful Laughter
- 24. Ritual Laughter
- 25. Carnival Laughter
- 26. Conclusion, Results, and Further Thoughts
- 27. On Aesthetic Qualities.