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Of corpse : death and humor in folklore and popular culture /
"Laughter, contemporary theory suggests, is often aggressive in some manner and may be prompted by a sudden perception of incongruity combined with memories of past emotional experience. Given this importance of the past to our recognition of the comic, it follows that some "traditions&quo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press,
2003.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Jokes that follow mass-mediated disasters in a global electronic age / Christie Davies
- Making a big apple crumble: the role of humor in constructing a global response to disaster / Bill Ellis
- Creating situations: practical jokes and the revival of the dead in Irish tradition / Ilana Harlow
- Tricks and fun: subversive pleasures at Newfoundland wakes / Peter Narváez
- "Pardon me for not standing": modern America graveyard humor / Richard E. Meyer
- Wishes come true: designing the Greenwich Village Halloween parade / Jack Kugelmass
- Making merry with death: iconic humor in Mexico's Day of the Dead / Kristin Congdon
- Calaveras: literary humor in Mexico's Day of the Dead / Stanley Brandes
- Exit laughing: death and laughter in Los Angeles and Port-au-Prince / Donald J. Cosentino
- Dancing skeletons: the subversion of death among deadheads / LuAnne K. Roth
- Traditional narrative, popular aesthetics, Weekend at Bernie's, and vernacular cinema / Mikel Koven.