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Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Epub
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (110 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- The Floating Press, 2008
- Summary:
- What does laughter mean? What is the basal element in the laughable? What common ground can we find between the grimace of a merry- andrew, a play upon words, an equivocal situation in a burlesque and a scene of high comedy? What method of distillation will yield us invariably the same essence from which so many different products borrow either their obtrusive odour or their delicate perfume? The greatest of thinkers, from Aristotle downwards, have tackled this little problem...
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