Jokes and their relation to society / by Christie Davies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davies, Christie.

Series:

Humor research ; 4

Humor Research [HR] ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social movements.

Wit and humor--Social aspects.

Wit and humor.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2012

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

No detailed description available for "Jokes and their Relations to Society".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Fooltowns: Traditional and modern Local, regional and ethnic jokes about stupidity

Chapter 3. From the Milesians to the Milesians: The Irish-Pontian joke, its history and its absence in China and Japan

Chapter 4. The Protestant ethic and the comic spirit of capitalism

Chapter 5. Stupidity and rationality: Jokes from the iron cage

Chapter 6. Humour for the future and a future for humour

Chapter 7. Ethnic jokes about alcohol: A study of the humour of ambivalence

Chapter 8. "Nasty" legends, "sick" humour and ethnic jokes about stupidity

Chapter 9. Making fun of work: Humour as sociology in the humorous writings of H. G. Wells

Chapter 10. Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (pages [193]-228) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110806144

3110806142

OCLC:

868974006