The Theory Of Joketivity

Author : Carl Dale Hill
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803223691
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soul of Wit written by Carl Dale Hill and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witz can serve either builders or destroyers, defenders of the faith or heretics, diplomats or oafs, male chauvinists or radical feminists. Witz shows its volatility in setting up cultural, class, and gender boundaries just to smash them. Hill argues that there is something about Witz that makes it quintessential to the plight of modern culture. He views Witz as an ahistorical subject developing over time and transcending the lifespans and intentions of the authors who have written with or about it.

Author : Elliott Oring
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
ISBN 13 : 160732492X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joking Asides written by Elliott Oring and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing in the understanding of humor is as simple as it might seem. In Joking Asides, Elliott Oring confronts the problems of humor, analyzing the key contemporary approaches to its study and addressing controversial topics with new empirical data and insights. A folklorist drawn to the study of humor, Oring developed his formulation of “appropriate incongruity” as a frame to understand what jokes must do to produce humor. He tests appropriate incongruity against other major positions in the field, including the general theory of verbal humor, conceptual integration theory, benign violation theory, and false-belief theory. Oring draws on the work of scholars from several disciplines—anthropology, folklore, philosophy, psychology, linguistics, and literature—to ask basic questions about the construction and evolution of jokes, untangle the matter of who the actual targets of a joke might be, and characterize the artistic qualities of jokes and joke performances. Although Oring guides the reader through a forest of jokes and joke genres, this is not a joke book. A major work from a major scholar, Joking Asides is a rigorous exploration of theoretical approaches to jokes and their functions and is filled with disquieting questions, penetrating criticisms, and original observations. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book will prove valuable to any scholar or student who takes matters of jokes and joking seriously.

Author : Jim Carmen
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781721042463
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Theory of Joketivity written by Jim Carmen and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-14 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy 179 hilarious jokes you will want to share with friends and family! Here's 6 tasty samples of what's inside the joke book to fire up your appetite:- 1. Why did God walk in on the orgy? He kept hearing his name. - 2. How can you tell if your dog really likes you? After he humps your leg he wants to cuddle. - 3. Why was the flag flown half-staffed? Because the pole wasn't fully erected. - 4. Why did Goldilocks sleep with the 3 Bears? She hated the Vikings. - 5. Who invented the first aspirin? Adam, after Eve invented the first headache. - 6. Did you hear about the fat woman playing poker? She asked me if I was all in. I said, "I don't know. I seem to keep hitting a fold."

Author : Magdalena Wieczorek (filologia angielska)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788370519599
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humour in Relevance Theory: a Pragmatic Analysis of Jokes written by Magdalena Wieczorek (filologia angielska) and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Todd McGowan
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810135802
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Only a Joke Can Save Us written by Todd McGowan and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only a Joke Can Save Us presents an innovative and comprehensive theory of comedy. Using a wealth of examples from high and popular culture and with careful attention to the treatment of humor in philosophy, Todd McGowan locates the universal source of comedy in the interplay of the opposing concepts lack and excess. After reviewing the treatment of comedy in the work of philosophers as varied as Aristotle, G. W. F. Hegel, Sigmund Freud, Henri Bergson, and Alenka Zupancic, McGowan, working in a psychoanalytic framework, demonstrates that comedy results from the deployment of lack and excess, whether in contrast, juxtaposition, or interplay. Illustrating the power and flexibility of this framework with analyses of films ranging from Buster Keaton and Marx Brothers classics to Dr. Strangelove and Groundhog Day, McGowan shows how humor can reveal gaps in being and gaps in social order. Scholarly yet lively and readable, Only a Joke Can Save Us is a groundbreaking examination of the enigmatic yet endlessly fascinating experience of humor and comedy.

Author : Charles Edward Carryl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0V/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Davy and the Goblin written by Charles Edward Carryl and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little boy, who believes that fairies and goblins are strictly creatures of fantasy, gets taken on a "Believing Voyage" by a hobgoblin.