Humour
Failed to add items
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
3 Months Free
Humour
Buy for $15.23
-
Narrated by:
-
Roger Clark
-
By:
-
Terry Eagleton
A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humor and comedy within Western culture - by one of its greatest exponents.
Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humor 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 humor 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 humor, 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 humor and its social and political evolution over the centuries.
©2019 Terry Eagleton (P)2019 TantorListeners also enjoyed...
People who viewed this also viewed...
almost fell a sleep several times
would not recommend at all
sorry
boring
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Terrible narration, boring and monotone
Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.