UID:
almafu_9959240620102883
Format:
1 online resource (244 p.)
Edition:
Reprint 2012
ISBN:
3-11-080614-2
Series Statement:
Humor Research [HR] ; 4
Note:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgements --
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Contents --
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Chapter 1. Introduction --
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Chapter 2. Fooltowns: Traditional and modern Local, regional and ethnic jokes about stupidity --
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Chapter 3. From the Milesians to the Milesians: The Irish-Pontian joke, its history and its absence in China and Japan --
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Chapter 4. The Protestant ethic and the comic spirit of capitalism --
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Chapter 5. Stupidity and rationality: Jokes from the iron cage --
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Chapter 6. Humour for the future and a future for humour --
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Chapter 7. Ethnic jokes about alcohol: A study of the humour of ambivalence --
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Chapter 8. "Nasty" legends, "sick" humour and ethnic jokes about stupidity --
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Chapter 9. Making fun of work: Humour as sociology in the humorous writings of H. G. Wells --
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Chapter 10. Conclusion --
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Notes --
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References --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-11-016104-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-306-27340-4
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
DOI:
10.1515/9783110806144
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