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Avec l'avènement de la démocratie, le rire apparaît comme un bien commun, partagé par tous et irriguant la totalité de l'espace public. Ce rire démocratique prend aussi appui sur la puissance de propagation et d'innovation des nouvelles industries médiatiques, qui acquièrent un poids économique et une force de frappe incomparables : acteur majeur de notre culture moderne du loisir et du divertissement, le rire s'est imposé à tous et constitue aujourd'hui l'un des moteurs de la société marchande et du consumérisme. Mais le rire répond aussi à un besoin anthropologique plus large : il soulage face aux angoisses de l'existence, et permet d'expérimenter le plaisir de la connivence sociale et celui de la fantaisie imaginative. Pour lui restituer toute sa richesse, cet ouvrage a choisi de multiplier les angles d'approche, en proposant à la fois une histoire culturelle du rire, une description de ses formes et des techniques utilisées, une réflexion théorique sur ses usages dans l'espace social. Tous les aspects du rire y sont envisagés de façon transdisciplinaire : des catégories du risible aux cibles du rire, de l'esthétique du rire à son usage au service des idéologies - à travers les beaux-arts, la littérature, la caricature, les arts de la scène, la télévision et les médias, la publicité, internet. Dans cette encyclopédie stéréoscopique du rire, abondamment illustrée, on aura encore plaisir à retrouver, au fil des pages et des images, toutes les grandes figures de l'humour depuis près de deux siècles. Il s'agira donc de prendre au sérieux la culture du rire, et de mesurer le rôle capital qu'elle a pu jouer dans l'histoire de notre modernité.

French wit and humor --- History and criticism --- Humour --- Histoire --- Sociologie --- Dans l'art --- French wit and humor - History and criticism

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The book is intended to provide a definitive view of the field of humor research for both beginning and established scholars in a variety of fields who are developing an interest in humor and need to familiarize themselves with the available body of knowledge. Each chapter of the book is devoted to an important aspect of humor research or to a disciplinary approach to the field, and each is written by the leading expert or emerging scholar in that area. There are two primary motivations for the book. The positive one is to collect and summarize the impressive body of knowledge accumulated in humor research in and around Humor: The International Journal of Humor Research. The negative motivation is to prevent the embarrassment to and from the "first-timers," often established experts in their own field, who venture into humor research without any notion that there already exists a body of knowledge they need to acquire before publishing anything on the subject-unless they are in the business of reinventing the wheel and have serious doubts about its being round! The organization of the book reflects the main groups of scholars participating in the increasingly popular and high-powered humor research movement throughout the world, an 800 to 1,000-strong contingent, and growing. The chapters are organized along the same lines: History, Research Issues, Main Directions, Current Situation, Possible Future, Bibliography-and use the authors' definitive credentials not to promote an individual view, but rather to give the reader a good comprehensive and condensed view of the area.

Wit and humor --- Literature --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Evaluation of literature --- Criticism --- Literary style --- History and criticism. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- Wit and humor - History and criticism --- Humor.

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Latin fiction --- Latin wit and humor --- Roman latin --- Humour latin --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Apuleius. --- Apulée, --- Latin literature --- History and criticism --- Latin fiction - History and criticism. --- Latin wit and humor - History and criticism. --- Apuleius. - Metamorphoses.

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History --- gouden eeuw (Holland) --- humor --- History of civilization --- anno 1600-1699 --- Netherlands --- Dutch wit and humor --- Dutch wit and humor, Pictorial. --- History and criticism. --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- geschiedenis --- leefcultuur --- Overbeke, Aernout van --- 17de eeuw --- Nederland --- Noordelijke Nederlanden --- Dutch wit and humor, Pictorial --- Dutch literature --- History and criticism --- Dutch wit and humor - History and criticism. --- Overbeke, Aernout van. --- 17de eeuw. --- Nederland. --- Noordelijke Nederlanden. --- lachen

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Although the question of humour in the surviving corpus of Old English literature has rarely been discussed, the potential for analyzing this literature in terms of its humor is in fact considerable. In the essays especially commissioned for this volume, the first book-length treatment of Anglo-Saxon humor, eight of the foremost scholars in the field use different approaches to explore humor in the surviving literature of Anglo-Saxon England, in such works as 'Beowulf' and 'The Battle of Maldon', the riddles of the Exeter book, and Old English saints' lives. The articles are prefaced with an introduction surveying the field. Through its unusual focus, this collection will provide an appealing introduction to both famous and lesser-known works for those new to Old English literature, while those familiar with the usual contours of Old English literary criticism will find here the value of a fresh approach. JONATHAN WILCOX is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa and editor of the 'Old English Newsletter'.

Comic [The ] in literature --- Comique [Le ] dans la littérature --- Komische [Het ] in de literatuur --- Thematology --- Old English literature --- Comic, The, in literature --- English literature --- English wit and humor --- History and criticism --- Old English, ca. 450-1100 --- English wit and humor - History and criticism. --- Comic, The, in literature. --- History and criticism.