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Cultural History of Humour: From Antiquity to t, Bremmer, Roodenburg+=
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- PublishedOn
- 1997-06-18
- ISBN
- 9780745618807
- EAN
- 9780745618807
- Book Title
- Cultural History of Humour : from Antiquity to the Present Day
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Publication Year
- 1997
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Genre
- Literary Criticism, History
- Topic
- General, Humor
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 14 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 280 Pages
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Humour is without doubt a vital element of the human condition but it has rarely been the subject of serious historical research. Yet a closer look at jokes and other comic phenomena shows us that the nature of humour changes from one period to another, and that these changes can provide us with important insights into the social and cultural developments of the past. This important and highly original book sets out to explore the terra incognita of humour through the ages - from jokes and stage humour in Greece and Rome to the jestbooks of early modern Europe, from practical jokes in Renaissance Italy to comic painting during the Dutch Golden Age, from Bakhtin's conception of laughter to the joking relationships of anthropologists. These innovative accounts move humour into the centre of social and cultural history and throw an unexpected light on life and manners through the ages.
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Publisher
Polity Press
ISBN-10
0745618804
ISBN-13
9780745618807
eBay Product ID (ePID)
500829
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cultural History of Humour : from Antiquity to the Present Day
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Humor
Publication Year
1997
Genre
Literary Criticism, History
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
14 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pn6147.C85 1997
Reviews
"[There are] plenty of fascinating nuggets in this book." the Sunday Telegraph "This is an unusual and stimulating book, packed with valuable information on a subject too often considered trivial and nonscholarly." Sixteenth Century Journal "Temptingly interesting ... worth indulging in." the Times Higher Education Supplement "Bremmer and Roodenburg have created a valuable work in the comparative sociology of humour ... excellent research bibliography ... interesting and scholarly work of value to the sociologists." British Journal of Sociology "Opens up a fascinating subject." Journal of Social History, [There are] plenty of fascinating nuggets in this book." The Sunday Telegraph "This is an unusual and stimulating book, packed with valuable information on a subject too often considered trivial and nonscholarly." Sixteenth Century Journal "Temptingly interesting ... worth indulging in." The Times Higher Education Supplement "Bremmer and Roodenburg have created a valuable work in the comparative sociology of humour ... excellent research bibliography ... interesting and scholarly work of value to the sociologists." British Journal of Sociology"Opens up a fascinating subject." Journal of Social History, "[There are] plenty of fascinating nuggets in this book." The Sunday Telegraph"This is an unusual and stimulating book, packed with valuable information on a subject too often considered trivial and nonscholarly." Sixteenth Century Journal"Temptingly interesting ... worth indulging in." The Times Higher Education Supplement"Bremmer and Roodenburg have created a valuable work in the comparative sociology of humour ... excellent research bibliography ... interesting and scholarly work of value to the sociologists." British Journal of Sociology"Opens up a fascinating subject." Journal of Social History, "[There are] plenty of fascinating nuggets in this book." The Sunday Telegraph "This is an unusual and stimulating book, packed with valuable information on a subject too often considered trivial and nonscholarly." Sixteenth Century Journal "Temptingly interesting ... worth indulging in." The Times Higher Education Supplement "Bremmer and Roodenburg have created a valuable work in the comparative sociology of humour ... excellent research bibliography ... interesting and scholarly work of value to the sociologists." British Journal of Sociology "Opens up a fascinating subject." Journal of Social History
Table of Content
List of illustrations. Notes on contributors. Preface. Introduction: Humour and History: Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg. 1. Jokes, Jokers and Jokebooks in Ancient Greek Culture: Jan Bremmer. 2. Cicero, Plautus and Roman Laughter: Fritz Graf. 3. Laughter in the Middle Ages: Jacques Le Goff. 4. Bakhtin and his Theory of Carnival: Aaron Gurevich. 5. Frontiers of the Comic in Early Modern Italy, c1350-1750: Peter Burke. 6. The Comic and the Counter Reformation in the Spanish Netherlands: Johan Verberckmoes. 7. Prose Jest-Books Mainly in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries in England: Derek Brewer. 8. To Converse Agreeably: Civility and the Telling of Jokes in Seventeenth-Century Holland: Herman Roodenburg. 9. How was Jan Steen Funny? Strategies and Functions of Comic Painting in the Seventeenth Century: Mariet Westermann. 10. Parliamentary Hilarity Inside the French Constitutional Assembly (1789-91): Antoine de Baecque. 11. Humour and the Public Sphere in Nineteenth-Century Germany: Mary Lee Townsend. 12. Humour, Laughter and the Field: Reflections from Anthropology: Henk Driessen. 13. Humour and History: A Research Bibliography: Johan Verberckmoes. Index of Names. Index of Subjects.
Copyright Date
1997
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
97-000635
Dewey Decimal
306.4/81
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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