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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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 |
Morreall John <1947->
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A discourse of wit [[electronic resource] /] / by David Abercromby . |
Autore | Abercromby David <d. 1701 or 2.> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Printed for John Weld ..., 1686 |
Descrizione fisica | [12], 236 p |
Soggetto topico |
Wit and humor - Philosophy
English wit and humor |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996396846903316 |
Abercromby David <d. 1701 or 2.>
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London, : Printed for John Weld ..., 1686 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Humor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c1988- |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource : ill. (some col.) |
Disciplina | 152.4 |
Soggetto topico |
Wit and humor - Philosophy
Wit and humor - Psychological aspects Wit and humor - Social aspects Wit and Humor as Topic Philosophy Psychology Research Humor (grappigheden) Tijdschriften |
Soggetto genere / forma | Periodical |
ISSN | 1613-3722 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910449252603321 |
Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c1988- | ||
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Humor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c1988- |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource : ill. (some col.) |
Disciplina | 152.4 |
Soggetto topico |
Wit and humor - Philosophy
Wit and humor - Psychological aspects Wit and humor - Social aspects Wit and Humor as Topic Philosophy Psychology Research Humor (grappigheden) Tijdschriften |
Soggetto genere / forma | Periodical |
ISSN | 1613-3722 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996219448903316 |
Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c1988- | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Humor |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c1988- |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource : ill. (some col.) |
Disciplina | 152.4 |
Soggetto topico |
Wit and humor - Philosophy
Wit and humor - Psychological aspects Wit and humor - Social aspects Wit and Humor as Topic Philosophy Psychology Research Humor (grappigheden) Tijdschriften |
Soggetto genere / forma | Periodical |
ISSN | 1613-3722 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910799272303321 |
Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c1988- | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Humor in contemporary junior literature / / Julie Cross |
Autore | Cross Julie <1966-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 p.) : ill |
Disciplina | 823/.914099282 |
Collana | Children's literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Humor in literature
Children's stories, English - History and criticism Children's stories, American - History and criticism English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism Wit and humor - Philosophy |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-136-83986-0
1-136-83987-9 1-283-04126-X 9786613041265 0-203-83294-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- The tradition of humorous transgression in everyday-life fiction -- Superiority humor within fantasy: ingenuous anthropomorphized animal-child characters and ingenious child detectives -- "New wave nonsense" and the tradition of classic nonsense -- Gendered humor: clever girls and clever boys -- Funny and fearful: the comic gothic and incongruity -- Mr. Gum and the emergent paradigm. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459243503321 |
Cross Julie <1966-, >
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Humor in contemporary junior literature / / Julie Cross |
Autore | Cross Julie <1966-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 p.) : ill |
Disciplina | 823/.914099282 |
Collana | Children's literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Humor in literature
Children's stories, English - History and criticism Children's stories, American - History and criticism English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism Wit and humor - Philosophy |
ISBN |
1-136-83986-0
1-136-83987-9 1-283-04126-X 9786613041265 0-203-83294-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- The tradition of humorous transgression in everyday-life fiction -- Superiority humor within fantasy: ingenuous anthropomorphized animal-child characters and ingenious child detectives -- "New wave nonsense" and the tradition of classic nonsense -- Gendered humor: clever girls and clever boys -- Funny and fearful: the comic gothic and incongruity -- Mr. Gum and the emergent paradigm. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791854603321 |
Cross Julie <1966-, >
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Humor in contemporary junior literature / / Julie Cross |
Autore | Cross Julie <1966-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 p.) : ill |
Disciplina | 823/.914099282 |
Collana | Children's literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Humor in literature
Children's stories, English - History and criticism Children's stories, American - History and criticism English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism Wit and humor - Philosophy |
ISBN |
1-136-83986-0
1-136-83987-9 1-283-04126-X 9786613041265 0-203-83294-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- The tradition of humorous transgression in everyday-life fiction -- Superiority humor within fantasy: ingenuous anthropomorphized animal-child characters and ingenious child detectives -- "New wave nonsense" and the tradition of classic nonsense -- Gendered humor: clever girls and clever boys -- Funny and fearful: the comic gothic and incongruity -- Mr. Gum and the emergent paradigm. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910799993503321 |
Cross Julie <1966-, >
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Humor in contemporary junior literature / / Julie Cross |
Autore | Cross Julie <1966-, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (265 p.) : ill |
Disciplina | 823/.914099282 |
Collana | Children's literature and culture |
Soggetto topico |
Humor in literature
Children's stories, English - History and criticism Children's stories, American - History and criticism English fiction - 20th century - History and criticism American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism Wit and humor - Philosophy |
ISBN |
1-136-83986-0
1-136-83987-9 1-283-04126-X 9786613041265 0-203-83294-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction -- The tradition of humorous transgression in everyday-life fiction -- Superiority humor within fantasy: ingenuous anthropomorphized animal-child characters and ingenious child detectives -- "New wave nonsense" and the tradition of classic nonsense -- Gendered humor: clever girls and clever boys -- Funny and fearful: the comic gothic and incongruity -- Mr. Gum and the emergent paradigm. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910811425403321 |
Cross Julie <1966-, >
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New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 | ||
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