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Elliott Oring asks essential questions concerning humorous expression in contemporary society, examining how humour works, why it is employed, and what its messages might be. This provocative book is filled with examples of jokes and riddles that reveal humour to be a meaningful - even significant - form of expression. Oring provides alternate ways of thinking about humorous expressions by examining their contexts - not just their contents. "Engaging Humor" demonstrates that when analyzed contextually and comparatively, humorous expressions emerge as communications that are startling, intriguing, and profound.

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French literature --- Literature --- anno 1800-1999 --- French wit and humor --- Irony in literature --- Ironie --- --Humour --- --Littérature française --- --History and criticism --- History and criticism --- French literature - 20th century - History and criticism --- French wit and humor - History and criticism --- Humour --- Littérature française

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Social stratification --- Sociological theories --- Wit and humor --- History and criticism --- 159.923.375 --- #SBIB:309H517 --- 316.7 --- Humor : sociologie --- Psychologie van de humor. Psychologie van de ironie --- Verbale communicatie: sociale psychologie van de taal en de interactie, psycholinguistiek --- History and criticism. --- 159.923.375 Psychologie van de humor. Psychologie van de ironie --- Wit and humor - History and criticism

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Despite popular opinions of the 'dark Middle Ages' and a 'gloomy early modern age,' many people laughed, smiled, giggled, chuckled, entertained and ridiculed each other. This volume demonstrates how important laughter had been at times and how diverse the situations proved to be in which people laughed, and this from late antiquity to the eighteenth century. The contributions examine a wide gamut of significant cases of laughter in literary texts, historical documents, and art works where laughter determined the relationship among people. In fact, laughter emerges as a kaleidoscopic phenomenon reflecting divine joy, bitter hatred and contempt, satirical perspectives and parodic intentions. In some examples protagonists laughed out of sheer happiness and delight, in others because they felt anxiety and insecurity. It is much more difficult to detect premodern sculptures of laughing figures, but they also existed. Laughter reflected a variety of concerns, interests, and intentions, and the collective approach in this volume to laughter in the past opens many new windows to the history of mentality, social and religious conditions, gender relationships, and power structures.

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Classical wit and humor --- Classical literature --- Comic, The, in literature --- Laughter in literature --- Humour ancien --- Littérature ancienne --- Comique dans la littérature --- Rire dans la littérature --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature ancienne --- Comique dans la littérature --- Rire dans la littérature --- Wit and humor, Classical --- Wit and humor, Ancient --- Themes, motives --- Congresses --- Comic [The ] in literature --- Classical wit and humor - History and criticism - Congresses --- Classical literature - History and criticism - Congresses --- Comic, The, in literature - Congresses --- Laughter in literature - Congresses