414 Pages
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Routledge
414 Pages
by
Routledge
405 Pages
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Routledge
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Humor at its best is a somewhat fluid and transitory element, but most books about it are illustrated with hardened old jokes from the comic papers, or classic witticisms jerked out of their context. Max Eastman, in this work, avoids this catastrophe by quoting mainly from contemporary American humor. This is not an anthology in that selections have been made with a view to making a point rather... Read more
1: Fun and Funny; 2: Babies and Grown-Ups; 3: Why We Laugh Like Human Beings; 1: The Importance of Not Being Earnest; 2: The Gift of Being Tickled; 3: Infant Laughter; 4: Do Babies Feel Derisive?; 5: Adult Laughter; 6: Eddie Cantor on the Auction Block; 4: Varieties of Humorous Experience; 11: Witty Jokes and Ludicrous Perceptions; 12: The Definition of Wit; 13: That Nonsense Must Be Plausible; 14: Funny Things and People; 15: Funny Pictures; 16: Poetic Humor; 17: Comical Figures of Speech; 18: Two Kinds of Comic Action; 19: A Mote on Comic Styles; 20: Poetic and Pictorial Humor with a Point: Cartoons; 21: That Rich Jokes Are Both Witty and Ludicrous; 5: Having Fun With Language; 22: Atrocious Puns; 23: Witty Puns; 24: Poetic Puns; 25: The Fun of Distorted Words; 26: That Bad Grammar Is Good Fun; 6: Laughing at Too-Much and Not-Enough; 27: Exaggeration; 28: Exaggeration as a Weapon: Caricature, Burlesque and Parody; 29: The American Blend of HumorA Digression; 30: Understatement; 31: Understatement as a Weapon; Irony; 32: Sarcasm and the Irony of Fate; 7: The Prevailing Topics of Laughter; 33: Playthings of the Moment; 34: Matrimony and Other Painful Pleasures; 35: Satire and Sympathetic Humor; 36: Degrees of Biting; 37: Slapstick and Aggressive Humor; 38: Risqué and Ribald Jokes: Freud’s Theory; 39: About Nonsense and about Children: Freud’s Theory Some More; 40: That Comicality Is Mot Release: Freud’s Theory Still; 41: The Furtive Snicker and the Rabelaisian Laugh; 42: Why Truth Is Humorous; 8: How to Tell Good Jokes from Bad; 43: To Diagram a Joke; 44: The Ten Commandments of the Comic Arts; Supplementary; Some Humorists on Humor; Notes
Biography
Max Eastman
