Laughing Matter: An Essay on the Comic.
Language: English
Published by Ithaca: Cornell University Press,, 1993
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Publisher's original red cloth with silver spine lettering, octavo, pp. x, 209 plus colophon.
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- Title
- Laughing Matter: An Essay on the Comic.
- Author
- GUTWIRTH, Marcel.
- Publisher
- Ithaca: Cornell University Press,
- Publication year
- 1993
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0801427835
- ISBN 13
- 9780801427831
- Edition
- 1st Edition
With the help of theorists in such fields as psychology, anthropology, physiology, sociology, and folklore as well as literary criticism, Gutwirth perceives that writers across history have attempted to explain laughter in one of three ways - focusing on its social or political function, its emotional rationale, or its intellectual dimension. Offering an array of readings of comic texts and incidents, he constructs a general model of laughter which takes into account its causes, immediate effects, and long-range influence on human affairs. In conclusion, he looks at the unique nature of comic wisdom, particularly as reflected in works by Santayana, Cervantes, and Beckett.
This playful, elegantly written book will attract a wide audience of readers who enjoy laughter and are interested in its sources, its pleasures, and its causes.
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