The Resource Humour, Terry Eagleton
Humour, Terry Eagleton
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The item Humour, Terry Eagleton represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
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The item Humour, Terry Eagleton represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves. Why do we laugh? What are we to make of the sheer variety of laughter, from braying and cackling to sniggering and chortling? Is humour subversive, or can it defuse dissent? Can we define wit? Packed with illuminating ideas and a good many excellent jokes, the book critically examines various well-known theories of humour, including the idea that it springs from incongruity and the view that it reflects a mildly sadistic form of superiority to others. Drawing on a wide range of literary and philosophical sources, Terry Eagleton moves from Aristotle and Aquinas to Hobbes, Freud, and Bakhtin, looking in particular at the psychoanalytical mechanisms underlying humour and its social and political evolution over the centuries
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Humour
- Title
- Humour
- Statement of responsibility
- Terry Eagleton
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves. Why do we laugh? What are we to make of the sheer variety of laughter, from braying and cackling to sniggering and chortling? Is humour subversive, or can it defuse dissent? Can we define wit? Packed with illuminating ideas and a good many excellent jokes, the book critically examines various well-known theories of humour, including the idea that it springs from incongruity and the view that it reflects a mildly sadistic form of superiority to others. Drawing on a wide range of literary and philosophical sources, Terry Eagleton moves from Aristotle and Aquinas to Hobbes, Freud, and Bakhtin, looking in particular at the psychoanalytical mechanisms underlying humour and its social and political evolution over the centuries
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1943-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Eagleton, Terry
- Dewey number
- 306.0973
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PN6147
- LC item number
- .E194 2019
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Wit and humor
- Wit and humor
- Wit and humor
- Wit and humor
- Label
- Humour, Terry Eagleton
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-170) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 2019931197
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xi, 178 pages
- Isbn
- 9780300243147
- Lccn
- 2019931197
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1052875595
- Label
- Humour, Terry Eagleton
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-170) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 2019931197
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- xi, 178 pages
- Isbn
- 9780300243147
- Lccn
- 2019931197
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1052875595
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