On the Comic and Laughter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On the Comic and Laughter write by Vladimir Propp. This book was released on 2009-11-07. On the Comic and Laughter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An extensive investigation of the forms and functions of the comic, this lively and engaging English critical edition will be welcomed by those interested in laughter, comedy, folklore, Russian literature, and specific authors such as Gogol, Pushkin, Chekhov, Rabelais, Molière, and Shakespeare. The direct, humorous, and provocative style of this work, which tackles the subject of humour with a vast array of vivid examples encountered on every page, will certainly appeal to the contemporary reader. Vladimir Propp takes various forms of laughter in literature and real life and addresses questions such as the comic of similarity, the comic of difference, parody, duping, incongruity, lying, ritual laughter, and carnival 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.
Humour, Comedy and Laughter
Humour, Comedy and Laughter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Humour, Comedy and Laughter write by Lidia Dina Sciama. This book was released on 2016-04-01. Humour, Comedy and Laughter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anthropological writings on humor are not very numerous or extensive, but they do contain a great deal of insight into the diverse mental and social processes that underlie joking and laughter. On the basis of a wide range of ethnographic and textual materials, the chapters examine the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humor and its potential to bring about a sense of amity and mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile people. Unfortunately, though, cartoons, jokes, and parodies can cause irremediable distress and offence. Nevertheless, contributors’ cross-cultural evidence confirms that the positive aspects of humor far outweigh the danger of deepening divisions and fueling hostilities
Laughter
Laughter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Laughter write by Henri Bergson. This book was released on 1914. Laughter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Surprised by Laughter
Surprised by Laughter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Surprised by Laughter write by Terry Lindvall. This book was released on 2012-01-17. Surprised by Laughter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Surprised by Laughter looks at the career and writings of C. S. Lewis and discovers a man whose life and beliefs were sustained by joy and humor. All of his life, C. S. Lewis possessed a spirit of individuality. An atheist from childhood, he became a Christian as an adult and eventually knew international acclaim as a respected theologian. He was known worldwide for his works of fiction, especially the Chronicles of Narnia; and for his books on life and faith, including Mere Christianity, A Grief Observed, and Surprised by Joy. But perhaps the most visible difference in his life was his abiding sense of humor. It was through this humor that he often reached his readers and listeners, allowing him to effectively touch so many lives. Terry Lindvall takes an in-depth look at Lewis's joyful approach toward living, dividing his study of C. S. Lewis's wit into the four origins of laughter in Uncle Screwtape's eleventh letter to a junior devil in Lewis's The Screwtape Letters: joy, fun, the joke proper, and flippancy. Lindvall writes, "One bright and compelling feature we can see, sparking in his sunlight and dancing in his moonlight, is laughter. Yet it is not too large to see at once because it inhabited all Lewis was and did." Surprised by Laughter reveals a Lewis who enjoyed the gift of laughter, and who willingly shared that gift with others in order to spread his faith.
Cruelty and Laughter
Cruelty and Laughter - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cruelty and Laughter write by Simon Dickie. This book was released on 2011-12. Cruelty and Laughter available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A rollicking review of popular culture in 18th century Britain this text turns away from sentimental and polite literature to focus instead on the jestbooks, farces, comic periodicals variety shows and minor comic novels that portray a society in which no subject was taboo and political correctness unimagined.
