Engaging Humor
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Word Count
56,000 words, Guess
Page Count
224 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL9534793M
- ISBN-139780252027864
- ISBN-100252027868
- OCLC Control Number49383970
- OCLC Control Numberengaginghumor0000orin
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2002004453
- Goodreads3234009
- LibraryThing2039958
Classifications
- LCCPN6147 .O74 2003
Description
"Analyzed contextually and comparatively, humorous expressions emerge as forms of human communication whose implications are startling, engaging, and profound. Engaging Humor explores Freud's theory that every thought contains a joke. Elliott Oring suggests that racist humor is not rooted in repression and offers a new perspective on other forms of humor seemingly based on hatred. He also addresses the use of jokes as commentaries on the conversations in which they are embedded and considers the similiarites in the humorous traditions of the United States, Australia, and Israel - each formed through colonization in modern times."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
HUMOR, I HAVE ARGUED, depends upon the perception of an appropriate incongruity; that is, the perception of an appropriate relationship between categories that would ordinarily be regarded as incongruous.
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