The Mirth Of Nations

Author : Christie Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351479377
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mirth of Nations written by Christie Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mirth of Nations is a social and historical study of jokes told in the principal English-speaking countries. It is based on use of archives and other primary sources, including old and rare joke books. Davies makes detailed comparisons between the humor of specific pairs of nations and ethnic and regional groups. In this way, he achieves an appreciation of the unique characteristics of the humor of each nation or group.A tightly argued book, The Mirth of Nations uses the comparative method to undermine existing theories of humor, which are rooted in notions of hostility, conflict, and superiority, and derive ultimately from Hobbes and Freud. Instead Davies argues that humor merely plays with aggression and with rule-breaking, and that the form this play takes is determined by social structures and intellectual traditions. It is not related to actual conflicts between groups. In particular, Davies convincingly argues that Jewish humor and jokes are neither uniquely nor overwhelmingly self-mocking as many writers since Freud have suggested. Rather Jewish jokes, like Scottish humor and jokes are the product of a strong cultural tradition of analytical thinking and intelligent self-awareness.The volume shows that the forty-year popularity of the Polish joke cycle in America was not a product of any special negative feeling towards Poles. Jokes are not serious and are not a form of determined aggression against others or against one's own group. The Mirth of Nations is readable as well as revisionist. It is written with great clarity and puts forward difficult and complex arguments without jargon in an accessible manner. Its rich use of examples of all kinds of humor entertains the reader, who will enjoy a great variety of jokes while being enlightened by the author's careful explanations of why particular sets of jokes exist and are immensely popular. The book will appeal to general readers as well as those in cultural stu

Author : Christie Davies
Publisher : AldineTransaction
ISBN 13 : 9781412814577
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mirth of Nations written by Christie Davies and published by AldineTransaction. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Home in the Netherlands uses a range of indicators to describe developments in the integration of non-Western migrants and their children in the Netherlands. Attention is focused on the situation of non-Western children in education, the position of non-Western migrants on the labour and housing markets, their representation in the crime figures and their degree of socio-cultural integration. The book also looks at civic integration, the mutual perceptions of the non-Western and indigenous populations, and the life situation of young people with a non-Western background.

Author : Gertrude Himmelfarb
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375704108
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One Nation, Two Cultures written by Gertrude Himmelfarb and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001-01-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of today's most respected historians and cultural critics comes a new book examining the gulf in American society--a division that cuts across class, racial, ethnic, political and sexual lines. One side originated in the tradition of republican virtue, the other in the counterculture of the late 1960s. Himmelfarb argues that, while the latter generated the dominant culture of today-particularly in universities, journalism, television, and film--a "dissident culture" continues to promote the values of family, a civil society, sexual morality, privacy, and patriotism. Proposing democratic remedies for our moral and cultural diseases, Himmelfarb concludes that it is a tribute to Americans that we remain "one nation" even as we are divided into "two cultures."

Author : Martina Kessel
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442695137
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Humour written by Martina Kessel and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period between the First World War and the fall of the Berlin Wall is often characterized as the age of extremes—while this era witnessed unprecedented violence and loss of human life, it also saw a surge in humorous entertainment in both democratic and authoritarian societies. The Politics of Humour examines how works such as satirical magazines and comedy films were used both to reaffirm group identity and to exclude those who did not belong. The essays in this collection analyse the political and social context of comedy in Europe and the United States, exploring topics ranging from the shifting targets of ethnic jokes to the incorporation of humour into wartime broadcasting and the uses of satire as a means of resistance. Comedy continues to define the nature of group membership today, and The Politics of Humour offers an intriguing look at how entertainment helped everyday people make sense of the turmoil of the twentieth century.

Author : Charles Lassalle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Author : John Andrews
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Author : Jonathan Swift
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
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Download or read book ... Capt. Lemuel Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World ... written by Jonathan Swift and published by . This book was released on 1765 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 330 pages
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Author : Charlotte Mary Yonge
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Total Pages : 446 pages
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Download or read book A Pictorial History of the World's Great Nations written by Charlotte Mary Yonge and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: