Jokes and their relation to society / / by Christie Davies
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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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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.: | 9910453559403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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