The Secret of HumorRodopi, 1978 - 205 páginas |
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... hostility , or sexual pressure . But Paul McGhee , co - editor of a recent anthology , The Psychology of Humor , admits that there is no consensus and that psychologists cannot explain humor . One of the most influential contemporary ...
... hostility , or sexual pressure . But Paul McGhee , co - editor of a recent anthology , The Psychology of Humor , admits that there is no consensus and that psychologists cannot explain humor . One of the most influential contemporary ...
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... of this approach have used such names as Derision , Hostility , and Superior Adaptation . My term is Playful Aggression , a regrettable choice of terminology since it immediately irritates some people and disturbs others 7.
... of this approach have used such names as Derision , Hostility , and Superior Adaptation . My term is Playful Aggression , a regrettable choice of terminology since it immediately irritates some people and disturbs others 7.
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... hostility is not new . It goes back at least as far as Aristotle who defined wit as " educated insolence . " But this idea has to be restated for each generation , adding fresh proof of the kind which the new generation happens to con ...
... hostility is not new . It goes back at least as far as Aristotle who defined wit as " educated insolence . " But this idea has to be restated for each generation , adding fresh proof of the kind which the new generation happens to con ...
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Leonard Feinberg. genial and lovable appreciators of humor -- are gratifying some kind of hostility when we laugh , seems at first both ridiculous and insulting . Since humor often permits us to feel superior to someone , the term ...
Leonard Feinberg. genial and lovable appreciators of humor -- are gratifying some kind of hostility when we laugh , seems at first both ridiculous and insulting . Since humor often permits us to feel superior to someone , the term ...
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... hostility be expressed in- directly , that the insult be delivered politely , that the aggression be manifested courteously . When it takes the form of superiority , aggression is easy enough to recognize . People are laughed at when ...
... hostility be expressed in- directly , that the insult be delivered politely , that the aggression be manifested courteously . When it takes the form of superiority , aggression is easy enough to recognize . People are laughed at when ...
Contenido
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27 | |
Unexpected Truth Aggression Against | 75 |
Sexual Humor Aggression Against | 89 |
Scatological Humor Aggression Against | 119 |
Cosmic Humor Aggression Against | 139 |
Nonsense Humor Aggression Against | 169 |
Word Play Aggression Against Confor | 183 |
Conclusion | 201 |
Términos y frases comunes
absurd Albert Rapp Ambivalence American amusing anecdote anthropologist asked audience behavior Bergler black humor Chapter cliches clown comedy comic cosmic humor cosmic irony create humor culture D. H. Monro distortion Edward Gorey Edward Lear element enjoy excrement expresses aggression familiar feel superior Folklore following examples fool form of aggression form of humor Freud Freudian funny Gershon Legman girl graffiti grotesque H. L. Mencken hostility human Incongruity theory insults invective James Thurber Joe Miller's Jests kind lady laugh laughter limericks Little Audrey Ludovici Martha Wolfenstein Nonsense humor nonsense verse obscene person play playful aggression pleasure popular practical joke pretend proverbs provides psychoanalyst puns Pussy remarks replied resentment Rickles ridiculing sadism satirists says scatological humor sexual humor shaggy dog story someone sometimes sophisticated source of humor Spooner taboo tells thing Thurber told trick Trickster urinate victim Willeford Wolfenstein woman word-play words writers young
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Página 193 - Who smiled as she rode on a tiger. They returned from the ride, With the lady inside, And the smile on the face of the tiger.
Página 17 - Jesus the King of the Jews." Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right and one on the left. And those who passed by derided him, wagging their heads and saying, "You who would destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! If you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.
Página 171 - Let us be married; too long we have tarried: But what shall we do for a ring?" They sailed away, for a year and a day, To the land where the bong-tree grows; And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood, With a ring at the end of his nose, His nose, His nose, With a ring at the end of his nose. "Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for a shilling Your ring?
Página 171 - You elegant fowl, How charmingly sweet you sing! Oh! let us be married; too long we have tarried: But what shall we do for a ring?" They sailed away, for a year and a day, To the land where the bong-tree grows; And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood, With a ring at the end of his nose, His nose, His nose, With a ring at the end of his nose. "Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling Your ring?
Página 168 - WERTHER had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter ; Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter. Charlotte was a married lady, And a moral man was Werther, And for all the wealth of Indies, Would do nothing for to hurt her. So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled. Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on...
Página 171 - The Owl and the Pussy-cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat: They took some honey, and plenty of money Wrapped up in a five-pound note. The Owl looked up to the stars above, And sang to a small guitar, "O lovely Pussy, O Pussy, my love, What a beautiful Pussy you are, You are, You are!
Página 172 - So they took it away, and were married next day By the Turkey who lives on the hill. They dined...
Página 50 - Simple Simon met a pieman Going to the fair; Says Simple Simon to the pieman, "Let me taste your ware." Says the pieman to Simple Simon, "Show me first your penny;" Says Simple Simon to the pieman, "Indeed, I have not any." Simple Simon went to look If plums grew on a thistle; He pricked his fingers very much, Which made poor Simon whistle.
Página 17 - But I am a worm, and no man; scorned by men, and despised by the people. All who see me mock at me, they make mouths at me, they wag their heads; "He committed his cause to the Lord; let him deliver him, let him rescue him, for he delights in him!
Página 102 - There was a young lady from Kent "Who said that she knew what it meant "When men took her to dine, "Gave her cocktails and wine; "She knew what it meant — but she went.