An edition of A Cultural history of humour (1997)

A Cultural history of humour

from antiquity to the present day

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An edition of A Cultural history of humour (1997)

A Cultural history of humour

from antiquity to the present day

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English
Pages
264

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Cover of: A Cultural History of Humor
A Cultural History of Humor: From Antiquity to the Present Day
June 1997, Polity Press
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Cover of: A Cultural History of Humour
A Cultural History of Humour: From Antiquity to the Present Day
June 1, 1997, Polity Press
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A Cultural history of humour: from antiquity to the present day
1997, Polity Press, Blackwell, Polity
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Table of Contents

Humor and history / Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg
Jokes, jokers and jokebooks in ancient Greek culture / Jan Bremer
Cicero, Plautus and Roman laughter / Fritz Graf
Laughter in the Middle Ages / Jacques le Goff
Bakhtin and his theory of carnival / Aaron Gurevich
Frontiers of the comic in early modern Italy, c. 1350-1750 / Peter Burke
The comic and the Counter-Reformation in the Spanish Netherlands / Johan Verberckmoes
Prose jest-books mainly in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries in England / Derek Brewer
To converse agreeably, civility and the telling of jokes in the seventeenth-century Holland / Herman Roodenburg
How was Jan Steen funny? / Mariët Westermann
Parliamentary hilarity inside the French Constitutional Assembly (1789-91) / Antoine de Baecque
Humour and the public sphere in nineteenth-century Germany / Mary Lee Townsend
Humour, laughter and the field, reflections from anthropology / Henk Driessen.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [242]252) and index.

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Cambridge, Mass, Malden, MA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
809.7
Library of Congress
PN6147 .C85 1997, PN6147.C85 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 264 p. :
Number of pages
264

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL655595M
Internet Archive
culturalhistoryo0000unse_f6c6
ISBN 10
074561535X, 0745618804
LCCN
97000635
OCLC/WorldCat
36215011
Library Thing
2731324
Goodreads
2612774
3530025

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