211 Pages
by
Routledge
211 Pages
by
Routledge
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Humor permeates every aspect of society and has done so for thousands of years. People experience it daily through television, newspapers, literature, and contact with others. Rarely do social researchers analyze humor or try to determine what makes it such a dominating force in our lives. The types of jokes a person enjoys contribute significantly to the definition of that person as well as to... Read more
1: Theoretical Concerns; 1: A Glossary of the Techniques of Humor: Morphology of the Joke-Tale; 2: Anatomy of a Joke; 2: Applications; 3: The Telephone Pole with the Braided Armpits: Ethnic and Racial Jokes and American Society; 4: “On Me You Can’t Count”: An Interpretation of a Jewish Joke with Relevance to the Jewish Question; 5: Jewish Fools; 6: Mickey Mouse and Krazy Kat: Of Mice and Men; 7: Comics and Popular Culture; 8: Mark Russell in Buffalo; 9: A Cool Million; 10: Twelfth Night; 11: Huckleberry Finn as a Novel of the Absurd; 12: Healing with Humor; 13: Comedy and Creation
Biography
Arthur Asa Berger
