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Author : Noël Carroll
Release : 2014
Genre : Humor
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 223/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Humour: A Very Short Introduction by : Noël Carroll
Download or read book Humour: A Very Short Introduction written by Noël Carroll. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the leading theories of humor, focusing on the incongruity theory.
Author : Matthew Bevis
Release : 2013
Genre : Humor
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 712/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Comedy: A Very Short Introduction by : Matthew Bevis
Download or read book Comedy: A Very Short Introduction written by Matthew Bevis. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a broad scope across the millennia, from high literature to popular culture, between page and stage and screen, this Very Short Introduction considers comedy not only as a literary genre, but also as a broader impulse at work in many other historical and contemporary forms of satire, parody, and play.
Author : Simon Critchley
Release : 2011-08-26
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 035/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis On Humour by : Simon Critchley
Download or read book On Humour written by Simon Critchley. This book was released on 2011-08-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fascinating and beautifully written book on what philosophy can tell us about humour and about what it is to be human. It will fascinate and intrigue anyone with a sense of humour.
Author : Terry Eagleton
Release : 2019-05-14
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 789/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Humour by : Terry Eagleton
Download or read book Humour written by Terry Eagleton. This book was released on 2019-05-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture—by one of its greatest exponents Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves. Why do we laugh? What are we to make of the sheer variety of laughter, from braying and cackling to sniggering and chortling? Is humour subversive, or can it defuse dissent? Can we define wit? Packed with illuminating ideas and a good many excellent jokes, the book critically examines various well-known theories of humour, including the idea that it springs from incongruity and the view that it reflects a mildly sadistic form of superiority to others. Drawing on a wide range of literary and philosophical sources, Terry Eagleton moves from Aristotle and Aquinas to Hobbes, Freud, and Bakhtin, looking in particular at the psychoanalytical mechanisms underlying humour and its social and political evolution over the centuries.
Author : Dorothy H. Crawford
Release : 2018
Genre : Medical virology
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 713/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Viruses by : Dorothy H. Crawford
Download or read book Viruses written by Dorothy H. Crawford. This book was released on 2018. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Viruses are big news. From pandemics such as HIV, swine flu, and SARS, we are constantly being bombarded with information about new lethal infections. In this Very Short Introduction, Dorothy Crawford demonstrates from their discovery and the unravelling of their intricate structures, how clever these entities really are.
