Jokes and their relations to society /
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
Publication Dates: |
[2012] ©1998 |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Humor research [hr] ;
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Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110806144 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110806144.jpg |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (234 pages). |
ISBN: | 9783110806144 |
Index Number: | PN6149 |
CLC: | I106.6 |
Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Fooltowns: Traditional and modern Local, regional and ethnic jokes about stupidity -- Chapter 3. From the Milesians to the Milesians: The Irish-Pontian joke, its history and its absence in China and Japan -- Chapter 4. The Protestant ethic and the comic spirit of capitalism -- Chapter 5. Stupidity and rationality: Jokes from the iron cage -- Chapter 6. Humour for the future and a future for humour -- Chapter 7. Ethnic jokes about alcohol: A study of the humour of ambivalence -- Chapter 8. Nasty legends, sick humour and ethnic jokes about stupidity -- Chapter 9. Making fun of work: Humour as sociology in the humorous writings of H. G. Wells -- Chapter 10. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index |