| Jazyk: | anglicky |
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| Počet stran: | 192 |
| Formát: | 12,2 x 19,5 cm |
| Nakladatel: | Yale University Press |
| Vazba: | měkká |
| Cena: | 319,00 Kč |
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Humour
Terry Eagleton
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Anotace
A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour 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 humour 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 humour 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 humour, 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 humour and its social and political evolution over the centuries.
Review
"Terry Eagleton offers a concise and playful primer in Humour. . . . A sensitive appraisal of humor's contradictory role in politics, where it can serve to level hierarchies but also to erode compassion and neutralize dissent. . . . Eagleton proves a witty and opinionated, if not exactly sidesplitting, tour guide."
--Julian Lucas, Harper's"Delightfully valuable. . . . Each sentence is short and comprehensible, and yet each sentence also seems to contain another new reference or idea. The text can be read quickly as rather funny in itself, or slowly to pick through the hidden depths that lurk behind each new example. . . . Humour is a splendid introduction to the topic."--Megan Volpert, Popmatters
About the Author
Terry Eagleton is distinguished visiting professor of English literature, University of Lancaster, and the author of more than fifty books in the fields of literary theory, postmodernism, politics, ideology, and religion. -
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ISBN/EAN: 9780300255027 Rok vydání: 2022 -
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