Histories of laughter and laughter in history
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Author
Publication
2016 - Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, England
Language
English
Word Count
58,250 words, Guess
Page Count
233 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL37769275M
- ISBN-139781443898546
- ISBN-101443898546
- OCLC Control Number956992155
- OCLC Control Number953807391
and 2 more
- OCLC Control Number956623317
- Internet Archivehistoriesoflaugh0000unse
Classifications
- DDC152.43
- LCCBF575.L3 H57 2016eb
Description
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 literatur.
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