
- 224 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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On the Comic and Laughter
About this book
The author of the widely acclaimed Morphology of the Folktale has written an original, comprehensive, and exciting study on how humour works, and on everything you wanted to know about the genre, in a clear, approachable, and insightful manner.
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Yes, you can access On the Comic and Laughter by Vladimir Propp, Jean-Patrick Debbèche, Paul J. Perron in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- 1 Methodology
- 2 Types of Laughter and Ridiculing Laughter as a Type
- 3 Those Who Laugh and Those Who Do Not
- 4 The Ridiculous in Nature
- 5 Preliminary Observations
- 6 The Physical Side of Humans
- 7 The Comic of Similarity
- 8 The Comic of Difference
- 9 Humans Disguised as Animals
- 10 Humans as Things
- 11 Ridiculing the Professions
- 12 Parody
- 13 Comic Exaggeration
- 14 Foiled Plans
- 15 Duping
- 16 Incongruity
- 17 Lying
- 18 The Verbal Devices of the Comic
- 19 Comic Characters
- 20 Role Exchange: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’
- 21 Benign Laughter
- 22 Bitter and Cynical Laughter
- 23 Joyful Laughter
- 24 Ritual Laughter
- 25 Carnival Laughter
- 26 Conclusion, Results, and Further Thoughts
- 27 On Aesthetic Qualities
- Notes
- References