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Humour

Humour

Humour Hardback - 2019

by Eagleton, Terry

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New Haven: Yale University Press. 2019. Octavo Size [approx 14x22cm]. Fine condition in a Near Fine Dustjacket - DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 178 pages. A study that reflects on the nature of humour and the function that it serves. Packed with illuminating ideas and many excellent jokes this book critically examines various well-known theories of humour. . Fine. 1st Edition. Hardback.
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  • Title Humour
  • Author Eagleton, Terry
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven
  • Publication date 2019
  • Bookseller's Inventory # BIB331075
  • ISBN 9780300243147 / 0300243146
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.25 x 5.5 x 0.9 in (20.96 x 13.97 x 2.29 cm)
  • Category Philosophy
  • Library of Congress subjects Wit and humor - Social aspects, Wit and humor - History and criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2019931197
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.097
  • Bookseller catalogues Humour

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From the publisher

A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture--by one of its greatest exponents

Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves. Why do we laugh? What are we to make of the sheer variety of laughter, from braying and cackling to sniggering and chortling? Is humour subversive, or can it defuse dissent? Can we define wit?

Packed with illuminating ideas and a good many excellent jokes, the book critically examines various well-known theories of humour, including the idea that it springs from incongruity and the view that it reflects a mildly sadistic form of superiority to others. Drawing on a wide range of literary and philosophical sources, Terry Eagleton moves from Aristotle and Aquinas to Hobbes, Freud, and Bakhtin, looking in particular at the psychoanalytical mechanisms underlying humour and its social and political evolution over the centuries.

About the author

Terry Eagleton is Distinguished Visiting Professor of English Literature, University of Lancaster, and the author of more than fifty books in the fields of literary theory, postmodernism, politics, ideology, and religion.

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