Histories of laughter and laughter in history : histoRisus /
Laughter is often no laughing matter, and, as such, it deserves continued scholarly attention as a social, cultural and historical phenomenon. This collection of essays is a meeting ground for scholars from several disciplines, including historians, philologists, and scholars of social sciences, to...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2016.
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| Summary: | Laughter is often no laughing matter, and, as such, it deserves continued scholarly attention as a social, cultural and historical phenomenon. This collection of essays is a meeting ground for scholars from several disciplines, including historians, philologists, and scholars of social sciences, to discuss places and roles of laughter in history, in historical narratives, and in cultural anthropology from prehistory to the present. The common foci of the papers gathered in this volume are to examine laughter and its meanings, to reflect on the place of laughter in Western history and literature. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 233 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1443897116 9781443897112 |