Engaging Humor

Author : Elliott Oring
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252092058
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engaging Humor written by Elliott Oring and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the structure, motives, and meanings of humor in everyday life In Engaging Humor, Elliott Oring asks essential questions concerning humorous expression in contemporary society, examining how humor works, why it is employed, and what its messages might be. This provocative book is filled with examples of jokes and riddles that reveal humor to be a meaningful--even significant--form of expression. Oring scrutinizes classic Jewish jokes, frontier humor, racist cartoons, blonde jokes, and Internet humor. He provides alternate ways of thinking about humorous expressions by examining their contexts--not just their contents. He also shows how the incongruity and absurdity essential to the production of laughter can serve serious communicative ends. Engaging Humor examines the thoughts that underlie jokes, the question of racist motivation in ethnic humor, and the use of humor as a commentary on social interaction. The book also explores the relationship between humor and sentimentality and the role of humor in forging national identity. Engaging Humor demonstrates that when analyzed contextually and comparatively, humorous expressions emerge as communications that are startling, intriguing, and profound.

Author : Laura Little
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190625783
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guilty Pleasures written by Laura Little and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people associate law books with humor. Yet the legal world--in particular the American legal system--is itself frequently funny. Indeed, jokes about the profession are staples of American comedy. And there is actually humor within the world of law too: both lawyers and judges occasionally strive to be funny to deal with the drudgery of their duties. Just as importantly, though, our legal system is a strong regulator of humor. It encourages some types of humor while muzzling or punishing others. In a sense, law and humor engage a two-way feedback loop: humor provides the raw material for legal regulation and legal regulation inspires humor. In Guilty Pleasures, legal scholar Laura Little provides a multi-faceted account of American law and humor, looking at constraints on humor (and humor's effect on law), humor about law, and humor in law. In addition to interspersing amusing episodes from the legal world throughout the book, the book contains 75 New Yorker cartoons about lawyers and a preface by Bob Mankoff, the cartoon editor for the New Yorker.

Author : Pratt Institute. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Total Pages : 628 pages
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Total Pages : 164 pages
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Author : Henry Francis Keenan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 668 pages
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Author : Providence Public Library (R.I.)
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Total Pages : 694 pages
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Total Pages : 1140 pages
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Total Pages : 364 pages
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Total Pages : 446 pages
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