Of Corpse : Death and Humor in Folkore and Popular Culture / / edited by Peter Narváez

• Autore: Narvaez Peter
• Pubblicazione: Utah State University, University Libraries, 2003; Logan, Utah : , : Utah State University Press, , 2003; ©2003
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (368 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 398.27
• Soggetto topico: Death
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: NarváezPeter
• Note generali: "An earlier version of Ellis's essay 'Making a Big Apple crumble' was published in the online Journal new directions in folklore, 6 June 2002."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-351) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Death-Humor Paradox --PART ONE Disaster Jokes --PART TWO Rites of Passage --PART THREE Festivals --PART FOUR Popular Culture --NOTES --REFERENCES --CONTRIBUTORS --INDEX.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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,
• Titolo autorizzato: Of Corpse
• ISBN: 1-283-26704-7; 9780874214815; 9786613267047; 0-87421-481-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996218163103316
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