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Author : Martin Grotjahn
Publisher : New York, Blakiston Division
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Laughter
ISBN : UOM:39015002194077
Author : Grace Garland
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780595208463
The world will finally see Curly not only as the brilliant comedian he was, but also as the manical nnemeses he became. The information uncovered in this book is like an untapped natural resource! It will gush forth a tale so amazingly unbelievable that political figures, movie moguls and Mafia members will want to cap, and voices from beyond will scream for the truth to finally set them free! It will give a daughter the closure she needs to go Beyond the Laughter.
Author : David M. Delo,Kingfisher Books
Publisher : Kingfisher Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0966221826
This emotionally painful, yet thoughtful and absorbing book reveals, in the first person, the way manic depression works on the mind--how it can alter one's life path, and what the illness may cost the manic depressive. An end section describes the disease, diagnosis and treatment, and the relationship between manic depression and creativity.
Author : Ashley Buck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B323473
Author : Yang Shen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811358173
This book explores the experience of China's migrant labourers in Shanghai from anthropological, and gendered analyses, offering extraordinary insights into the life-world of the marginalized people. China has hundreds of millions of internal migrants coming from the countryside to the big cities in search of fame, fortune, or just a living. The author also examines the gender dynamics at work, in intimacy and leisure of this marginalized, yet huge population. With an in-depth and multidisciplinary examination of the experience of restaurant workers in Shanghai, this book sheds humanising new light on the experience of the megacity from the inside and will be of direct value to policymakers, demographers, feminist scholars, anthropologists, sociologists, and responsible citizens.
Author : Harvey Mindess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351509640
Laughter and Liberation is based on the idea that humor is an agent of psychological liberation. Since we are able to include every kind of wit and humor under the umbrella of this thesis, it amounts to an informal, comprehensive theory of the ludicrous. Briefly put, the theory proposes that the most fundamental function of humor is its power to release us from the inhibitions and restrictions under which we live our daily lives.The quest for laughter is as old as man himself?Egyptian pharaohs and Roman emperors went to great lengths to amuse themselves, as did the monarchs of medieval Europe with court jesters. Our speech and literature abound with references to humor such as: "Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone," "He who laughs last laughs best," "All the world loves a clown," "Laugh if you are wise," and "A good laugh is sunshine in the house."In Laughter and Liberation, Harvey Mindess tells us how laughter and our sense of humor work. He gives us the background of several well-known humorists?Steve Allen, Richard Armour, Sholom Aleichem?and explains his theory of how and why they have become expert in making others laugh.
Author : C. Conybeare
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781137370914
The laughter of delight has gone unheard in the Western tradition. This work brings new light to the notion, and has a consistent leitmotif: the delighted laughter of the matriarch Sarah in the book of Genesis, when she gives birth to her son Isaac. This laughter is "heard" through biblical commentaries and twentieth-century theorists of laughter.
Author : Martin Grotjahn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Laughter
ISBN : OCLC:553388766
Author : Robert R. Provine
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781101659250
Do men and women laugh at the same things? Is laughter contagious? Has anyone ever really died laughing? Is laughing good for your health? Drawing upon ten years of research into this most common-yet complex and often puzzling-human phenomenon, Dr. Robert Provine, the world's leading scientific expert on laughter, investigates such aspects of his subject as its evolution, its role in social relationships, its contagiousness, its neural mechanisms, and its health benefits. This is an erudite, wide-ranging, witty, and long-overdue exploration of a frequently surprising subject.
Author : Phillip Glenn,Phillip J. Glenn,Elizabeth Holt
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441164797
Explores the nature, occurrence and uses of laugher in a range of different kinds of interactions across a variety of languages.
Author : Lydia Amir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429000867
This book investigates the role of humor in the good life, specifically as discussed by three prominent French intellectuals who were influenced by Nietzsche's thought: Georges Bataille, Gilles Deleuze, and Clément Rosset. Lydia Amir begins by discussing Nietzsche’s reception in France, and she explains why and how he came to be considered a "philosopher of laughter" in the French academe. Each of the subsequent three chapters focuses on the significance of humor and laughter in the good life as advocated by Bataille, Deleuze, and Rosset. These chapters also explore the complex relationship between the comic and the tragic, and of humor and laughter to irony, satire, and ridicule. The Legacy of Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Laughter makes an invaluable contribution to recent interpretive work done on Bataille and Deleuze, and offers further introduction to the relatively understudied Rosset. It illuminates the philosophies of these three thinkers, their connection to Nietzsche, and, overall, the significant role that humor plays in philosophy.
Author : John Spiegel
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1575910373
"Since human laughter served, in a sense, as Dostoevsky's model, the author pays some heed to the highly controversial subject of real-life laughter, along with the leading theories that seek to elucidate its causes and implications.".
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110245486
Despite popular opinions of the ‘dark Middle Ages’ and a ‘gloomy early modern age,’ many people laughed, smiled, giggled, chuckled, entertained and ridiculed each other. This volume demonstrates how important laughter had been at times and how diverse the situations proved to be in which people laughed, and this from late antiquity to the eighteenth century. The contributions examine a wide gamut of significant cases of laughter in literary texts, historical documents, and art works where laughter determined the relationship among people. In fact, laughter emerges as a kaleidoscopic phenomenon reflecting divine joy, bitter hatred and contempt, satirical perspectives and parodic intentions. In some examples protagonists laughed out of sheer happiness and delight, in others because they felt anxiety and insecurity. It is much more difficult to detect premodern sculptures of laughing figures, but they also existed. Laughter reflected a variety of concerns, interests, and intentions, and the collective approach in this volume to laughter in the past opens many new windows to the history of mentality, social and religious conditions, gender relationships, and power structures.
Author : Gordon Kainer
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781304671929
Laughter and Other Gifts of God shows how essential it is to understand the source and significance of laughter, humor, and joy. The author offers compelling reasons why these dynamic qualities need to be motivated and governed by God's love and grace. Discover how laughter is a valuable reflection of God Himself! It is a potent force that stirs you to see another side of things. It may also nudge you toward a new understanding of God and why the most wasted day is the one in which you haven't laughed. The book uses Scripture, scientific research, and humorous stories to answer significant questions: Why do we laugh; What does our laughter say about us? The book demonstrates laughter is not an innocent, neutral, or impartial activity but one with an agenda. Learn how your laughter and sense of humor usually reflect your innermost thoughts and feelings. Find out how a healthy lifestyle includes laughter-that by walking with Jesus, you can experience joy at every stage of your life.
Author : Erich Segal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1987-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195364750
"Mr. Segal has performed the by no means trifling task of making [Plautus's] achievement credible and understandable."--Times Literary Supplement. "It is refreshing to find Plautus examined for what he undeniably was--a theatrical phenomenon."--Classical World. "We certainly need in English a book devoted to Plautus alone and here we have it."--Phoenix. "Many readers will do as I have done: read Roman Laughter with enjoyment and profit."--Classical Philology. "Of all the Greek and Roman playwrights," Erich Segal writes, "Titus Maccius Plautus is the least admired and the most imitated." In Roman Laughter, the first book-length study of Plautus, Segal argues that this neglected writer, often denounced by scholars for such crimes as "barbarous clownery," merits our serious attention precisely because he was the most successful poet of the ancient world. He analyzes the reasons behind this success, placing the author in his social and historical context and observing that Plautus's wildly comedic flouting of Roman law and custom had a cathartic effect upon a people bound by rule in every aspect of their lives. This expanded edition contains a new preface that reconsiders the work of Plautus in light of recent scholarship and also contains essays on the Amphitryon and the Captivi.
