Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 526 pages)
ISBN:
9783030566463
Content:
Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part I: Preliminaries: Terms and Theories -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Lear's Fool's Jests -- Using Humour Theories -- The Volume's Aims -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: The Study of Past Humour: Historicity and the Limits of Method -- The Problem of Universality -- Method, Genealogy, Semantic Continuity and Change -- Context and the Idioms of Historiography -- Aspects of Intentionality -- The Imponderables of Reception -- The Case of Hobbes on Laughter -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: No Sense of Humour? 'Humour' Words in Old Norse -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Rewriting Laughter in Early Modern Europe -- Superiority Theory and the Early Modern -- Incongruity Theory and the Early Modern -- Relief Theory and Early Modern Medicine -- Universalising Humour, Universalising Humanity -- Bibliography -- Chapter 5: The Humour of Humours: Comedy Theory and Eighteenth-Century Histories of Emotions -- Humour as Method -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Bergson's Theory of the Comic and Its Applicability to Sixteenth-Century Japanese Comedy -- Bergson's 'Theory of the Comic' -- Bergson and Humour Studies -- Bergsonian Studies -- Bergson on Time and Freedom -- The Role of Laughter -- Applying Bergson in a Different Comic Tradition-Japanese kyōgen -- Summary of Busu (Poison) -- Locating Bergson's Comic Devices in Busu-Types of Farce Plots -- Plot-Types and Busu -- Locating Bergson's Mechanical Devices in Busu -- Bergson's Insights and Their Limitations -- The Functions of Laughter in Busu -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Comic Character and Counter-Violation: Critiquing Benign Violation Theory -- Bibliography -- Chapter 8: Humour and Religion: New Directions? -- Humour and Myth -- The Comic Vision and Religion.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030566456
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Palgrave handbook of humour, history, and methodology Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 ISBN 9783030566456
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Geschichte
;
Witz
;
Humor
;
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