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Taking Humour Seriously (Hardcover)
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Taking Humour Seriously (Hardcover)
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Humor and comedy are an integral part of our lives, inviting us to
take pleasure at any moment. In "Taking Humour Seriously," Jerry
Palmer argues that humor must be taken seriously--as well as in
it's "native state"--or else we fail to understand a fundamental
dimension of our aesthetic and social culture.
Palmer's book unravels the many-faceted nature of humor--as part
of our personalities, our cognitive and emotional processes, and as
subject to the social rules which govern our behavior on different
occasions. It is an essential element of literary and visual
narrative, subject to moral and aesthetic judgement and used as a
rhetorical instrument. "Taking Humour Seriously" contends that only
when these separate elements are analyzed can we approach an
understanding of humor.
The book examines the role of humor and comedy in different
societies, and the methods of study used--from Freud to
anthropology, from literary criticism to biology. It finally
examines those things which prevent enjoyment of humour, and
explores the values of comedic enjoyment.
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