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  title info:
    title: Comic relief
    sub title: a comprehensive philosophy of humor
  name:
    name part: Morreall, John
    name part: 1947-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 187 pages) : illustrations
  table of contents: Foreword / Robert Mankoff -- No laughing matter : the traditional rejection of humor and traditional theories of humor -- Humor, anarchy, and aggression -- The superiority theory : humor as anti-social -- The incongruity theory : humor as irrational -- The relief theory : humor as a pressure valve -- The minority opinion of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas : humor as playful relaxation -- The relaxation theory of Robert Latta -- Fight or flight, or laughter : the psychology of humor -- Humor and disengagement -- Humor as play -- Laughter as a play signal -- From Lucy to "I love Lucy" : the evolution of humor -- What was first funny? -- The basic pattern in humor : the playful enjoyment of a cognitive shift is expressed in laughter -- The worth of mirth -- That Mona Lisa smile : the aesthetics of humor -- Humor as aesthetic experience -- Humor and other ways of enjoying cognitive shifts : the funny, tragic, grotesque, macabre, horrible, bizarre, and fantastic -- Tragedy vs. comedy : is heavy better than light? -- Enough with the jokes : spontaneous vs. prepared humor -- Laughing at the wrong time : the negative ethics of humor -- Eight traditional moral objections -- The shortcomings in the contemporary ethics of humor -- A more comprehensive approach : the ethics of disengagement -- First harmful effect : irresponsibility -- Second harmful effect : blocking compassion -- Third harmful effect : promoting prejudice -- Having a good laugh : the positive ethics of humor -- Intellectual virtues fostered by humor -- Moral virtues fostered by humor -- Humor during the Holocaust -- Homo sapiens and homo ridens : philosophy and comedy -- Was Socrates the first stand-up comedian? -- Humor and the existentialists -- The laughing Buddha -- The glass is half-empty and half-full : comic wisdom.
  note: John Morreall ; foreword by Robert Mankoff.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Wit and humor
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: PN6149.P5 M67 2009eb
  classification: 809/.7
  related item:
    title info:
      title: New directions in aesthetics ; 9
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Wiley Online Library
  identifier: 1444307797
  identifier: 9781444307795
  identifier: 10.1002/9781444307795 Wiley InterScience
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: DG1
    record creation date: 091209
    record change date: 20210727155953.0
    record identifier: in00002709179
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng