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200 14$aThe pleasure of fools $eessays in the ethics of laughter /$fJure Gantar
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aMontreal ;$aIthaca $cMcGill-Queen's University Press$dc2005
215   $a1 online resource (204 p.) 
300   $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
311   $a0-7735-2892-X 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [171]-184) and index.
327   $tFront Matter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tA Critical Prejudice -- $tAlternatives to Laughter -- $tTypologies of Laughter -- $tNonsense -- $tRidicule -- $tLaughter in Utopia -- $tSelf-Deprecating Laughter -- $tThe Comedian -- $tLaughter and Insult -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex
330   $aThe crucial question is not whether or not there is offensive laughter but whether or not all laughter offends. Almost everyone has felt the bitter stab of malicious laughter and knows that laughter can be cruel, but it is more difficult to decide if there is also laughter that can never insult. Through a reading of Aristophanes, Rabelais, Molière, Fielding, and Rostand, Victorian nonsense poetry, and the philosophical texts of Plato, Dante, and More, Gantar explores the reasons for critics' prejudice against comedy, the specific position of laughter in various utopian societies, and self-deprecating laughter and the role of the comedian as its primary producer. His conclusions contradict basic postmodern thought and contribute to current debates on the epistemological nature of criticism.
606   $aLaughter in literature
606   $aLaughter$xMoral and ethical aspects
615  0$aLaughter in literature.
615  0$aLaughter$xMoral and ethical aspects.
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