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Comic relief [[electronic resource] ] : a comprehensive philosophy of humor / / John Morreall; foreword by Robert Mankoff
| Comic relief [[electronic resource] ] : a comprehensive philosophy of humor / / John Morreall; foreword by Robert Mankoff |
| Autore | Morreall John <1947-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 203p |
| Disciplina |
152.43
809.7 |
| Collana | New directions in aesthetics |
| Soggetto topico |
Wit and humor - Philosophy
Wit and humor - History |
| ISBN |
1-4443-5829-4
1-282-46097-8 9786612460975 1-4443-0779-7 1-4443-0780-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Foreword / Robert Mankoff -- No laughing matter : the traditional rejection of humor and traditional theories of humor -- Humor, anarchy, and aggression -- The superiority theory : humor as anti-social -- The incongruity theory : humor as irrational -- The relief theory : humor as a pressure valve -- The minority opinion of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas : humor as playful relaxation -- The relaxation theory of Robert Latta -- Fight or flight, or laughter : the psychology of humor -- Humor and disengagement -- Humor as play -- Laughter as a play signal -- From Lucy to "I love Lucy" : the evolution of humor -- What was first funny? -- The basic pattern in humor : the playful enjoyment of a cognitive shift is expressed in laughter -- The worth of mirth -- That Mona Lisa smile : the aesthetics of humor -- Humor as aesthetic experience -- Humor and other ways of enjoying cognitive shifts : the funny, tragic, grotesque, macabre, horrible, bizarre, and fantastic -- Tragedy vs. comedy : is heavy better than light? -- Enough with the jokes : spontaneous vs. prepared humor -- Laughing at the wrong time : the negative ethics of humor -- Eight traditional moral objections -- The shortcomings in the contemporary ethics of humor -- A more comprehensive approach : the ethics of disengagement -- First harmful effect : irresponsibility -- Second harmful effect : blocking compassion -- Third harmful effect : promoting prejudice -- Having a good laugh : the positive ethics of humor -- Intellectual virtues fostered by humor -- Moral virtues fostered by humor -- Humor during the Holocaust -- Homo sapiens and homo ridens : philosophy and comedy -- Was Socrates the first stand-up comedian? -- Humor and the existentialists -- The laughing Buddha -- The glass is half-empty and half-full : comic wisdom. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139959203321 |
Morreall John <1947->
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| Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Comic relief : a comprehensive philosophy of humor / / John Morreall; foreword by Robert Mankoff
| Comic relief : a comprehensive philosophy of humor / / John Morreall; foreword by Robert Mankoff |
| Autore | Morreall John <1947-> |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 203p |
| Disciplina |
152.43
809.7 |
| Collana | New directions in aesthetics |
| Soggetto topico |
Wit and humor - Philosophy
Wit and humor - History |
| ISBN |
1-4443-5829-4
1-282-46097-8 9786612460975 1-4443-0779-7 1-4443-0780-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Foreword / Robert Mankoff -- No laughing matter : the traditional rejection of humor and traditional theories of humor -- Humor, anarchy, and aggression -- The superiority theory : humor as anti-social -- The incongruity theory : humor as irrational -- The relief theory : humor as a pressure valve -- The minority opinion of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas : humor as playful relaxation -- The relaxation theory of Robert Latta -- Fight or flight, or laughter : the psychology of humor -- Humor and disengagement -- Humor as play -- Laughter as a play signal -- From Lucy to "I love Lucy" : the evolution of humor -- What was first funny? -- The basic pattern in humor : the playful enjoyment of a cognitive shift is expressed in laughter -- The worth of mirth -- That Mona Lisa smile : the aesthetics of humor -- Humor as aesthetic experience -- Humor and other ways of enjoying cognitive shifts : the funny, tragic, grotesque, macabre, horrible, bizarre, and fantastic -- Tragedy vs. comedy : is heavy better than light? -- Enough with the jokes : spontaneous vs. prepared humor -- Laughing at the wrong time : the negative ethics of humor -- Eight traditional moral objections -- The shortcomings in the contemporary ethics of humor -- A more comprehensive approach : the ethics of disengagement -- First harmful effect : irresponsibility -- Second harmful effect : blocking compassion -- Third harmful effect : promoting prejudice -- Having a good laugh : the positive ethics of humor -- Intellectual virtues fostered by humor -- Moral virtues fostered by humor -- Humor during the Holocaust -- Homo sapiens and homo ridens : philosophy and comedy -- Was Socrates the first stand-up comedian? -- Humor and the existentialists -- The laughing Buddha -- The glass is half-empty and half-full : comic wisdom. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816987003321 |
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Morreall John <1947->
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| Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Laughter in the Middle Ages and early modern times [[electronic resource] ] : epistemology of a fundamental human behavior, its meaning, and consequences / / edited by Albrecht Classen
| Laughter in the Middle Ages and early modern times [[electronic resource] ] : epistemology of a fundamental human behavior, its meaning, and consequences / / edited by Albrecht Classen |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (863 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809/.93354 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ClassenAlbrecht |
| Collana | Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture |
| Soggetto topico |
Laughter in literature
Humor in literature Laughter - History Wit and humor - History Laughter - Philosophy Laughter - Religious aspects Wit and humor, Medieval Wit and humor - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-88515-4
9786612885150 3-11-024548-5 |
| Classificazione | GF 6377 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Laughter as an Expression of Human Natur in theMiddle Ages and the Early Modern Period: Literary, Historical, Theological, Philosophical, and Psychological Reflections. Also an Introduction -- Chapter 1. Laughter in Procopius's Wars -- Chapter 2. "Does God Really Laugh?" - Appropriate and Inappropriate Descriptions of God in Islamic Traditionalist Theology -- Chapter 3. Laughter in Beowulf: Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Group Identity Formation -- Chapter 4. The Parodia sacra Problem and Medieval Comic Studies -- Chapter 5. Women's Laughter and Gender Politics in Medieval Conduct Discourse -- Chapter 6. Pushing Decorum: Uneasy Laughter in Heinrich von dem Türlîn's Diu Crône -- Chapter 7. Laughter and the Comedic in a Religious Text: The Example of the Cantigas de Santa Maria -- Chapter 8. The Son Rebelled and So the Father Made Man Alone: Ridicule and Boundary Maintenance in the Nizzahon Vetus -- Chapter 9. Laughing at the Beast: The Judensau: Anti Jewish Propaganda and Humor from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period -- Chapter 10. Yes . . . but was it funny? Cecco Angiolieri, Rustico Filippi, and Giovanni Boccaccio -- Chapter 11. Curses and Laughter in Medieval Italian Comic Poetry: The Ethics of Humor in Rustico Filippi's Invectives -- Chapter 12. Tromdhámh Guaire: a Context for Laughter and Audience in Early Modern Ireland -- Chapter 13. Humorous Transgression in the Non Conformist fabliaux Genre: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Three Comic Tales -- Chapter 14. Chaucerian Comedy: Troilus and Criseyde -- Chapter 15. Laughing in and Laughing at the Old French Fabliaux -- Chapter 16. Laughter and Medieval Stalls -- Chapter 17. Vox populi e voce professionis: Processus juris joco serius. Esoteric Humor and the Incommensurability of Laughter -- Chapter 18. "So I thought as I Stood, To Mirth Us Among": The Function of Laughter in The Second Shepherds' Play -- Chapter 19. Laughing in Late Medieval Verse (mæren) and Prose (Schwänke) Narratives: Epistemological Strategies and Hermeneutic Explorations -- Chapter 20. The Workings of Desire: Panurge and the Dogs -- Chapter 21. Laughing Out Loud in the Heptaméron: A Reassessment of Marguerite de Navarre's Ambivalent Humor -- Chapter 22. You had to be there: The Elusive Humor of the Sottie -- Chapter 23. Sacred Parody in Robert Greene's Groatsworth of Wit (1592) -- Chapter 24. The Comedy of the Shrew: Theorizing Humor in Early Modern Netherlandish Art -- Chapter 25. The Comic Personas of Milton's Prolusion VI: Negotiating Masculine Identity Through Self Directed Humor -- Chapter 26. Ridentum dicere verum (Using Laughter to Speak the Truth): Laughter and the Language of the Early Modern Clown "Pickelhering" in German Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century (1675-1700) -- Chapter 27. Andreae's ludibrium: Menippean Satire in the Chymische Hochzeit -- Chapter 28. The Comic Power of Illusion Allusion: Laughter, La Devineresse, and the Scandal of a Glorious Century -- Chapter 29. Laughing at Credulity and Superstition in the Long Eighteenth Century -- Backmatter |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455979803321 |
| New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Laughter in the Middle Ages and early modern times [[electronic resource] ] : epistemology of a fundamental human behavior, its meaning, and consequences / / edited by Albrecht Classen
| Laughter in the Middle Ages and early modern times [[electronic resource] ] : epistemology of a fundamental human behavior, its meaning, and consequences / / edited by Albrecht Classen |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (863 p.) |
| Disciplina | 809/.93354 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | ClassenAlbrecht |
| Collana | Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture |
| Soggetto topico |
Laughter in literature
Humor in literature Laughter - History Wit and humor - History Laughter - Philosophy Laughter - Religious aspects Wit and humor, Medieval Wit and humor - History and criticism |
| Soggetto non controllato | Laughter / in Literature |
| ISBN |
1-282-88515-4
9786612885150 3-11-024548-5 |
| Classificazione | GF 6377 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Laughter as an Expression of Human Natur in theMiddle Ages and the Early Modern Period: Literary, Historical, Theological, Philosophical, and Psychological Reflections. Also an Introduction -- Chapter 1. Laughter in Procopius's Wars -- Chapter 2. "Does God Really Laugh?" - Appropriate and Inappropriate Descriptions of God in Islamic Traditionalist Theology -- Chapter 3. Laughter in Beowulf: Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Group Identity Formation -- Chapter 4. The Parodia sacra Problem and Medieval Comic Studies -- Chapter 5. Women's Laughter and Gender Politics in Medieval Conduct Discourse -- Chapter 6. Pushing Decorum: Uneasy Laughter in Heinrich von dem Türlîn's Diu Crône -- Chapter 7. Laughter and the Comedic in a Religious Text: The Example of the Cantigas de Santa Maria -- Chapter 8. The Son Rebelled and So the Father Made Man Alone: Ridicule and Boundary Maintenance in the Nizzahon Vetus -- Chapter 9. Laughing at the Beast: The Judensau: Anti Jewish Propaganda and Humor from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period -- Chapter 10. Yes . . . but was it funny? Cecco Angiolieri, Rustico Filippi, and Giovanni Boccaccio -- Chapter 11. Curses and Laughter in Medieval Italian Comic Poetry: The Ethics of Humor in Rustico Filippi's Invectives -- Chapter 12. Tromdhámh Guaire: a Context for Laughter and Audience in Early Modern Ireland -- Chapter 13. Humorous Transgression in the Non Conformist fabliaux Genre: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Three Comic Tales -- Chapter 14. Chaucerian Comedy: Troilus and Criseyde -- Chapter 15. Laughing in and Laughing at the Old French Fabliaux -- Chapter 16. Laughter and Medieval Stalls -- Chapter 17. Vox populi e voce professionis: Processus juris joco serius. Esoteric Humor and the Incommensurability of Laughter -- Chapter 18. "So I thought as I Stood, To Mirth Us Among": The Function of Laughter in The Second Shepherds' Play -- Chapter 19. Laughing in Late Medieval Verse (mæren) and Prose (Schwänke) Narratives: Epistemological Strategies and Hermeneutic Explorations -- Chapter 20. The Workings of Desire: Panurge and the Dogs -- Chapter 21. Laughing Out Loud in the Heptaméron: A Reassessment of Marguerite de Navarre's Ambivalent Humor -- Chapter 22. You had to be there: The Elusive Humor of the Sottie -- Chapter 23. Sacred Parody in Robert Greene's Groatsworth of Wit (1592) -- Chapter 24. The Comedy of the Shrew: Theorizing Humor in Early Modern Netherlandish Art -- Chapter 25. The Comic Personas of Milton's Prolusion VI: Negotiating Masculine Identity Through Self Directed Humor -- Chapter 26. Ridentum dicere verum (Using Laughter to Speak the Truth): Laughter and the Language of the Early Modern Clown "Pickelhering" in German Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century (1675-1700) -- Chapter 27. Andreae's ludibrium: Menippean Satire in the Chymische Hochzeit -- Chapter 28. The Comic Power of Illusion Allusion: Laughter, La Devineresse, and the Scandal of a Glorious Century -- Chapter 29. Laughing at Credulity and Superstition in the Long Eighteenth Century -- Backmatter |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780719403321 |
| New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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