Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folkore and Popular Culture - Softcover

Narvaez, Peter

 
9780874215595: Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folkore and Popular Culture
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0874215595 ISBN 13: 9780874215595
Verlag: Univ of Chicago behalf of UP Colorado, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Laughter, contemporary theory suggests, is often aggressive in some manner and may be prompted by a sudden perception of incongruity combined with memories of past emotional experience. Given this importance of the past to our recognition of the comic, it follows that some "traditions" dispose us to ludic responses. The studies in Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular Culture examine specific interactions of text (jokes, poetry, epitaphs, iconography, film drama) and social context (wakes, festivals, disasters) that shape and generate laughter. Uniquely, however, the essays here peruse a remarkable paradox---the convergence of death and humor.

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Verlag
Univ of Chicago behalf of UP Colorado
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0874215595
ISBN 13 
9780874215595
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
358
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