The Game of Humor: A Comprehensive Theory of Why We Laugh - Hardcover

Gruner, Charles R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1560003138 ISBN 13: 9781560003137

Verlag: Transaction Publishers, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Charles R. Gruner argues that humour is rare ly innocuous, that its roots lie in our baser nature and tha t, with the exception of good-natured play, it is rarely as innocent as it would first appear. '

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-Gruner expounds on Koestler's notion that aggression is the one indispensable ingredient for humor by taking on the daunting task of finding aggressive themes in hundreds of instances of humor over a wide historical period... A controversial book written in a confrontational style, which will provide much material for debate.- --K. M. Dillon, Choice "Gruner expounds on Koestler's notion that aggression is the one indispensable ingredient for humor by taking on the daunting task of finding aggressive themes in hundreds of instances of humor over a wide historical period... A controversial book written in a confrontational style, which will provide much material for debate." --K. M. Dillon, Choice "Gruner expounds on Koestler's notion that aggression is the one indispensable ingredient for humor by taking on the daunting task of finding aggressive themes in hundreds of instances of humor over a wide historical period... A controversial book written in a confrontational style, which will provide much material for debate." --K. M. Dillon, Choice

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Transaction Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1560003138
• ISBN 13: 9781560003137
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 226
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