Cultural History of Humour From Antiquity to the Present Day

Name: Cultural History of Humour From Antiquity to the Present Day
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ISBN: 9780745618807

ISBN-10: 0745618804

ISBN-13: 9780745618807

Edition: 1997

Authors: Jan Bremmer, Herman Roodenburg

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This important and highly original book sets out to explore the terra incognita of humour through the ages - from jokes and stage humour in Greece and Rome to the jestbook of early modern Europe.

Book details

List price: $31.25
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Polity Press
Publication date: 7/7/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.07" wide x 9.00" long x 0.84" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Notes on contributors


Preface


Introduction


Humour and History:




Jokes, Jokers and Jokebooks in Ancient Greek Culture:




Cicero, Plautus and Roman Laughter:




Laughter in the Middle Ages:




Bakhtin and his Theory of Carnival:




Frontiers of the Comic in Early Modern Italy, c1350-1750:




The Comic and the Counter Reformation in the Spanish Netherlands:




Prose Jest-Books Mainly in the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries in England:




To Converse Agreeably: Civility and the Telling of Jokes in Seventeenth-Century Holland:




How was Jan Steen Funny? Strategies and Functions of Comic Painting in the Seventeenth Century:




Parliamentary Hilarity Inside the French Constitutional Assembly (1789-91):




Humour and the Public Sphere in Nineteenth-Century Germany:




Humour, Laughter and the Field: Reflections from Anthropology:




Humour and History: A Research Bibliography:



Index of Names


Index of Subjects