Cultural History of Humour: From Antiquity to the Present Day - Softcover

 
9780745618807: Cultural History of Humour: From Antiquity to the Present Day
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0745618804 ISBN 13: 9780745618807
Verlag: Polity, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Humour is without doubt a vital element of the human condition but it has rarely been the subject of serious historical research. Yet a closer look at jokes and other comic phenomena shows us that the nature of humour changes from one period to another, and that these changes can provide us with important insights into the social and cultural developments of the past.


This important and highly original book sets out to explore the terra incognita of humour through the ages - from jokes and stage humour in Greece and Rome to the jestbooks of early modern Europe, from practical jokes in Renaissance Italy to comic painting during the Dutch Golden Age, from Bakhtin's conception of laughter to the joking relationships of anthropologists.


These innovative accounts move humour into the centre of social and cultural history and throw an unexpected light on life and manners through the ages.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jan Mremmer, University of Groningen

Herman Roodenburg, P.J. Meertens-Institute Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam

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Humour is without doubt a vital element of the human condition but it has rarely been the subject of serious historical research. Yet a closer look at jokes and other comic phenomena shows us that the nature of humour changes from one period to another, and that these changes can provide us with important insights into the social and cultural developments of the past.


This important and highly original book sets out to explore the terra incognita of humour through the ages - from jokes and stage humour in Greece and Rome to the jestbooks of early modern Europe, from practical jokes in Renaissance Italy to comic painting during the Dutch Golden Age, from Bakhtin's conception of laughter to the joking relationships of anthropologists.


These innovative accounts move humour into the centre of social and cultural history and throw an unexpected light on life and manners through the ages.

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Humour is without doubt a vital element of the human condition but it has rarely been the subject of serious historical research. Yet a closer look at jokes and other comic phenomena shows us that the nature of humour changes from one period to another, and that these changes can provide us with important insights into the social and cultural developments of the past.


This important and highly original book sets out to explore the terra incognita of humour through the ages - from jokes and stage humour in Greece and Rome to the jestbooks of early modern Europe, from practical jokes in Renaissance Italy to comic painting during the Dutch Golden Age, from Bakhtin's conception of laughter to the joking relationships of anthropologists.


These innovative accounts move humour into the centre of social and cultural history and throw an unexpected light on life and manners through the ages.

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Verlag
Polity
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0745618804
ISBN 13 
9780745618807
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
276
Herausgeber
Bremmer Jan
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