Max Eastman

Enjoyment of Laughter (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 than covering the field.

The purpose of Eastman's fabled work is to make the reader laugh. Since his early school days, it has seemed to him that textbooks are wrongly written in that they are conducted in a way which ignores the natural operation of the mind. As a result, the opinion is universal, and under the circumstances a fact, that in order to learn anything you have to study. Since this introduction to humor is itself near to writing a textbook, Eastman uses the very text he constructs to illustrate the manner in which textbooks should be written.

Examination and classification of the kinds of humorous experience upon the basis of a theory is a science. As such, this work offers a fair chance to illustrate a method of instruction. However, the distinction between a good joke and a bad one will not prevent the reader from making bad jokes nor enable one to make good ones. There is an artistic and playful element that simply cannot be taught. Enjoyment of Laughter presents a total view of the science of laughter and draws upon some of the great American humorists to do so.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 405
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351311717
• Artikelnr.: 49397829

Autorenporträt

Max Eastman

Inhaltsangabe

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

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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