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Enjoyment of Laughter (Hardcover)
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Enjoyment of Laughter (Hardcover)
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Humor at its best is a somewhat fluid and transitory element, but
most books about it are illustrated with hardened old jokes from
the comic papers, or classic witticisms jerked out of their
context. Max Eastman, in this work, avoids this catastrophe by
quoting mainly from contemporary American humor. This is not an
anthology in that selections have been made with a view to making a
point rather than covering the field. The purpose of Eastman's
fabled work is to make the reader laugh. Since his early school
days, it has seemed to him that textbooks are wrongly written in
that they are conducted in a way which ignores the natural
operation of the mind. As a result, the opinion is universal, and
under the circumstances a fact, that in order to learn anything you
have to study. Since this introduction to humor is itself near to
writing a textbook, Eastman uses the very text he constructs to
illustrate the manner in which textbooks should be written.
Examination and classification of the kinds of humorous experience
upon the basis of a theory is a science. As such, this work offers
a fair chance to illustrate a method of instruction. However, the
distinction between a good joke and a bad one will not prevent the
reader from making bad jokes nor enable one to make good ones.
There is an artistic and playful element that simply cannot be
taught. Enjoyment of Laughter presents a total view of the science
of laughter and draws upon some of the great American humorists to
do so.
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