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Author Eagleton, Terry, 1943- author.

Title Humour / Terry Eagleton.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 178 pages)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents On laughter -- Scoffers and mockers -- Incongruities -- Humour and history -- The politics of humour.
Summary Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves. Why do we laugh? What are we to make of the sheer variety of laughter, from braying and cackling to sniggering and chortling? Is humour subversive, or can it defuse dissent? Can we define wit? Packed with illuminating ideas and a good many excellent jokes, the book critically examines various well-known theories of humour, including the idea that it springs from incongruity and the view that it reflects a mildly sadistic form of superiority to others. Drawing on a wide range of literary and philosophical sources, Terry Eagleton moves from Aristotle and Aquinas to Hobbes, Freud, and Bakhtin, looking in particular at the psychoanalytical mechanisms underlying humour and its social and political evolution over the centuries.
Language In English.
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Subject Wit and humor -- History and criticism.
Wit and humor -- Political aspects.
Wit and humor -- Social aspects.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Humor.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics.
Wit and humor
Wit and humor -- Social aspects
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: EAGLETON, TERRY. HUMOUR. [Place of publication not identified], YALE UNIV Press, 2019 0300243146 (OCoLC)1052875595
ISBN 9780300244786 (electronic bk.)
0300244789 (electronic bk.)
0300243146
9780300243147
Standard No. 10.12987/9780300244786