Описание: What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena? This book explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects.
Автор: Dobrenko Evgeny, Jonsson-Skradol Natalia Название: State Laughter: Stalinism, Populism, and Origins of Soviet Culture ISBN: 0198840411 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198840411 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 28393.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Stalin`s reign of terror was not all doom and gloom, much of it was (meant to be) funny! Tracing the development of official humour, satire, and comedy, Dobrenko and Jonsson-Skradol do away with the idea that all humour in the USSR was subversive, instead exploring why laughter was a core component to the survival of the Soviet regime.
Описание: Although numerous scholars have studied Late Republican humor, this is the first book to examine its social and political context. Anthony Corbeill maintains that political abuse exercised real powers of persuasion over Roman audiences and he demonstrates how public humor both creates and enforces a society`s norms. Previous scholarship has offere
Описание: Unveiling the nearly lost world of the court fools of eighteenth-century Germany, Dorinda Outram shows that laughter was an essential instrument of power. Whether jovial or cruel, mirth altered social and political relations.Outram takes us first to the court of Frederick William I of Prussia, who emerges not only as an administrative reformer and notorious militarist but also as a ""master of fools,"" a ruler who used fools to prop up his uncertain power. The autobiography of the itinerant fool Peter Prosch affords a rare insider’s view of the small courts in Catholic south Germany, Austria, and Bavaria. Full of sharp observations of prelates and princes, the autobiography also records episodes of the extraordinary cruelty for which the German princely courts were notorious. Joseph Fr?hlich, court fool in Dresden, presents more appealing facets of foolery. A sharp salesman and hero of the Meissen factories, he was deeply attached to the folk life of fooling. The book ends by tying the growth of Enlightenment skepticism to the demise of court foolery around 1800.Outram’s book is invaluable for giving us such a vivid depiction of the court fool and especially for revealing how this figure can shed new light on the wielding of power in Enlightenment Europe.
Автор: Wickberg Daniel Название: The Senses of Humor: Self and Laughter in Modern America ISBN: 0801456665 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801456664 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4634.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Why do modern Americans believe in something called a sense of humor and how did they come to that belief? Daniel Wickberg traces the cultural history of the concept from its British origins as a way to explore new conceptions of the self and social order in modern America. More than simply the history of an idea, Wickberg's study provides new insights into a peculiarly modern cultural sensibility.The expression "sense of humor" was first coined in the 1840s and the idea that such a sense was a personality trait to be valued developed only in the 1870s. What is the relationship between Medieval humoral medicine and this distinctively modern idea of the sense of humor? What has it meant in the past 125 years to declare that someone lacks a sense of humor? How is the joke, as a twentieth-century quasi-literary form, different from the traditional folktale? Wickberg addresses these questions, among others, using the history of ideas to throw new light on the way contemporary Americans think and speak.The context of Wickberg's analysis is Anglo-American; the specifically British meanings of humor and laughter from the sixteenth century forward provide the framework for understanding American cultural values in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The genealogy of the sense of humor is, like the study of keywords, an avenue into a significant aspect of the cultural history of modernity. Drawing on a wide range of sources and disciplinary perspectives, Wickberg's analysis challenges many of the prevailing views of modern American culture and suggests a new model for cultural historians.
Автор: Classen Albrecht Название: Laughter in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Times ISBN: 3110245477 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110245479 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Рейтинг: Цена: 43460.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: 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 title demonstrates how important laughter had been at times and how diverse the situations proved to be in which people laughed.
Although numerous scholars have studied Late Republican humor, this is the first book to examine its social and political context. Anthony Corbeill maintains that political abuse exercised real powers of persuasion over Roman audiences and he demonstrates how public humor both creates and enforces a society's norms.
Previous scholarship has offered two explanations for why abusive language proliferated in Roman oratory. The first asserts that public rhetoric, filled with extravagant lies, was unconstrained by strictures of propriety. The second contends that invective represents an artifice borrowed from the Greeks. After a fresh reading of all extant literary works from the period, Corbeill concludes that the topics exploited in political invective arise from biases already present in Roman society. The author assesses evidence outside political discourse--from prayer ritual to philosophical speculation to physiognomic texts--in order to locate independently the biases in Roman society that enabled an orator's jokes to persuade. Within each instance of abusive humor--a name pun, for example, or the mockery of a physical deformity--resided values and preconceptions that were essential to the way a Roman citizen of the Late Republic defined himself in relation to his community. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
1.Introduction: Victorian Comedy & Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes and Dissent.- 2. Chapter 2: Malcolm Andrews, 'Laughter & Conviviality'. - 3. Chapter 3: Jonathan Buckmaster, 'Brutal Buffoonery and Clown Atrocity: Dickens's Pantomime Violence'. - 4. Chapter 4: Peter Swaab, 'Edward Lear's Travels in Nonsense and Europe'.- 5. Chapter 5: Bob Nicholson, '"Capital Company" Writing and Telling Jokes in Victorian Britain'.- 6. Chapter 6: Louise Lee, 'George Eliot's Jokes'.- 7. Chapter 7: Ann Featherstone, 'The Game of Words: A Victorian Clown's Gag-book and Circus Performance'. - 8. Chapter 8: Louise Wingrove, '"Sassin' back" Victorian Serio-Comediennes and Their Audiences'.- 9. Chapter 9: Oliver Double, '"Deliberately Shaped for Fun by the High Gods" Little Tich, Size and Respectability in the Music Hall'. - 10. Chapter 10: Peter Jones, 'Laughing Out of Turn: Fin de Siиcle Literary Realism and the Vernacular Humours of the Music Hall'. - 11. Chapter 11: Jonathan Wild, 'What was New about the "New Humour"?: Barry Pain's "Divine Carelessness"'. - 12. Chapter 12: Matthew Kaiser, 'Just Laughter: Neurodiversity in Oscar Wilde's "Pen, Pencil and Poison"
Описание: Humor is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke laughter and provide amusement. Throughout history, it has played a crucial role in defining gender roles and identities. This collection offers an in-depth thematic examination of this relationship between humor and gender, spanning a variety of historical and cultural backdrops.
Автор: Jones PeterJA Название: Laughter and Power in the Twelfth Century ISBN: 0198843542 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198843542 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 13306.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Surveying a vibrant wave of medieval humour, from the laughing prophecies of Merlin to the cutthroat mockery of royal palaces and the outrageous jokes of the law courts, Laughter and Power in the Twelfth Century exposes the functional, ferocious, and often mystical power of humour in the period between the Norman Conquest and Magna Carta.
Название: Greek laughter and tears ISBN: 1474403794 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474403795 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 18216.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Bringing together scholars from diverse periods and disciplines of Hellenic and Byzantine studies, this volume explores the shifting shapes and functions of laughter and tears, with consideration given to visual, performative and musical arts, as well as to written records.
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