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Humour - Rilegato

Terry Eagleton

 
9780300243147: Humour
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ISBN 10: 0300243146 ISBN 13: 9780300243147
Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2019

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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.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Terry Eagleton is distinguished visiting professor of English literature, University of Lancaster, and the author of more than fifty books in the fields of literary theory, postmodernism, politics, ideology, and religion. Recent publications include Why Marx Was Right and Culture. He lives in Northern Ireland.

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Editore
Yale Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2019
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0300243146
ISBN 13 
9780300243147
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
224
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
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