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The pleasure of fools [[electronic resource] ] : essays in the ethics of laughter / / Jure Gantar



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Autore: Gantar Jure <1964-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The pleasure of fools [[electronic resource] ] : essays in the ethics of laughter / / Jure Gantar Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2005
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (204 p.)
Disciplina: 809/.93353
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Soggetto topico: Laughter in literature
Laughter - Moral and ethical aspects
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-184) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Critical Prejudice -- Alternatives to Laughter -- Typologies of Laughter -- Nonsense -- Ridicule -- Laughter in Utopia -- Self-Deprecating Laughter -- The Comedian -- Laughter and Insult -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: The 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The pleasure of fools  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-86350-9
9786612863509
0-7735-7285-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910782181503321
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