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Autore: |
Davies Christie
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Titolo: |
Jokes and their relation to society / / by Christie Davies
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Pubblicazione: | Berlin ; ; New York : , : Mouton de Gruyter, , 1998 |
Edizione: | Reprint 2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.4/81 |
Soggetto topico: | Social movements |
Wit and humor - Social aspects | |
Classificazione: | EC 3980 |
Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-228) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Jokes and their relation to society ![]() |
ISBN: | 3-11-080614-2 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910790810903321 |
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