Laughing matter : an essay on the comic /

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Author / Creator:Gutwirth, Marcel, 1923-
Imprint:Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1993.
Description:x, 211 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1460316
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ISBN:0801427835 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-201) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Laughter, and Its Explicators
  • Chapter 2. Laughter Conscripted: a Socio-Integrative Approach
  • Chapter 3. Laughter's Inner Springs: the Psychological Approach
  • Chapter 4. Laughter Sparked: a Binary-Structural Approach
  • Chapter 5. The Fivefold Way: a Recapitulation
  • Chapter 6. Brief Victory
  • Chapter 7. Art
  • Chapter 8. Comic Wisdom
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index