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Autore |
Davies Christie |
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Jokes and their relation to society / / by Christie Davies |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1998 |
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Edizione |
[Reprint 2012] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (244 p.) |
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Collana |
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Humor Research [HR] ; ; 4 |
Humor research ; ; 4 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Social movements |
Wit and humor - Social aspects |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-228) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Fooltowns: Traditional and modern Local, regional and ethnic jokes about stupidity -- Chapter 3. From the Milesians to the Milesians: The Irish-Pontian joke, its history and its absence in China and Japan -- Chapter 4. The Protestant ethic and the comic spirit of capitalism -- Chapter 5. Stupidity and rationality: Jokes from the iron cage -- Chapter 6. Humour for the future and a future for humour -- Chapter 7. Ethnic jokes about alcohol: A study of the humour of ambivalence -- Chapter 8. "Nasty" legends, "sick" humour and ethnic jokes about stupidity -- Chapter 9. Making fun of work: Humour as sociology in the humorous writings of H. G. Wells -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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