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These vivid portraits uncover a profound reason for the universal appeal of comedy.
Author : Ronald Scott Jenkins
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 14,9 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN :
These vivid portraits uncover a profound reason for the universal appeal of comedy.
Author : Barry Sanders
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,32 MB
Release : 1996-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807062050
In this wonderful exploration of the meaning of laughter, Barry Sanders queries its uses from the ancient Hebrews to Lenny Bruce, turning up evidence of its age-old power to subvert authority and give voice to the voiceless.
Author : Ralph Lerner
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 2011-08-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1459627229
The role of the fool is to provoke the powerful to question their convictions, preferably while avoiding a beating. Fools accomplish this not by hectoring their audience, but by broaching sensitive topics indirectly, often disguising their message in a joke or a tale. Writers and thinkers throughout history have adopted the fool's approach, and ...
Author : Audrey Bilger
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Dissenters in literature
ISBN : 9780814330548
An examination of comedy and feminism in the works of early women British novelists.
Author : J. Heydt-Stevenson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 35,7 MB
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137098538
Austen'sUnbecomingConjunctions is a contemporary study of all Jane Austen's writings focusing on her representation of women, sexuality, the material objects, and linguistic patterns by which this sexuality was expressed. Heydt-Stevenson demonstrates the subtle, vulgar, and humorous ways Austen uses human bodies, objects, and activities (fashion, jewelry, crafts, popular literature, travel and tourism, money, and courtship rituals) to convey sexuality and sexual appetites. Through the sexual subtext, Heydt-Stevenson proposes, Austen satirized contemporary sexual hypocrisy; overcame the stereotypes of women authors as sexually inhibited, sheltered, or repressed; and addressed as sophisticated and worldly an audience as Byron's. Thus through her careful reading of all the Austen texts in light of the language of eroticism, both traditional and contemporary, Heydt-Stevenson re-evaluates Austen's audience, the novels, and her role as a writer.
Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9042026731
This essay collection is dedicated to intersections between gender theories and theories of laughter, humour, and comedy. It is based on the results of a three-year research programme, entitled “Gender – Laughter – Media” (2003-2006) and includes a series of investigations on traditional and modern media in western cultures from the 18th to the 20th century. A theoretical opening part is followed by four thematic sections that explore the multiple forms of irritating stereotypical gender perceptions; aspects of (post-)colonialism and multiculturalism; the comic impact of literary and media genres in different national cultures; as well as the different comic strategies in fictional, philosophical, artistic or real life communication. The volume presents a variety of new approaches to the overlaps between gender and laughter that have only barely been considered in groundbreaking research. It forms a valuable read for scholars of literary, theatre, media, and cultural studies, at the same time reaching out to a general readership.
Author : Jenny Sunden
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 17,21 MB
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0262361140
Exploring feminist social media tactics that use humor and laughter as a form of resistance to misogyny, rewiring feelings of shame into shamelessness. Online sexism, hate, and harassment aim to silence women through shaming and fear. In Who's Laughing Now? Jenny Sundén and Susanna Paasonen examine a somewhat counterintuitive form of resistance: humor. Sundén and Paasonen argue that feminist social media tactics that use humor, laughter, and a sense of the absurd to answer name-calling, offensive language, and unsolicited dick pics can reroute and rewire shame into a self-assured shamelessness.
Author : Laurence J. Peter
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,88 MB
Release : 1987-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345353337
Author : Jure Gantar
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780773528925
"Men cannot laugh heartily without showing their teeth," quipped Samuel Butler. From St Paul to Descartes to Adorno, scholars and writers have questioned the ethics of laughter - any laughter. In The Pleasure of Fools, Jure Gantar wrestles with our moral right to laugh and the limitations of contemporary critical approaches.The crucial question is not whether or not there is offensive laughter but whether or not all laughter offends. Almost everyone has felt the bitter stab of malicious laughter and knows that laughter can be cruel, but it is more difficult to decide if there is also laughter that can never insult. Through a reading of Aristophanes, Rabelais, Molière, Fielding, and Rostand, Victorian nonsense poetry, and the philosophical texts of Plato, Dante, and More, Gantar explores the reasons for critics' prejudice against comedy, the specific position of laughter in various utopian societies, and self-deprecating laughter and role of the comedian as its primary producer. His conclusions contradict basic postmodern thought and contribute to current debates on the epistemological nature of criticism.
Author : Pierre Destrée
Publisher :
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 38,15 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0190460547
Ancient philosophers were very interested in questions about laughter, humor and comedy. They theorized about laughter and its causes, moralized about the appropriate uses of humor and what it is appropriate to laugh at, and wrote treaties on comedic composition. This volume explores themes that were important for ancient philosophers: the psychology of laughter, the ethical and social norms governing laughter and humor, and the philosophical uses of humor and comedic technique.