Jokes and Their Relations

ISBN-13: 9781138526617 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 192 str.

Elliott Oring

Opis

Almost everyone tells and appreciates jokes. Yet the nature of jokes has proved elusive. This title offers a perspective on jokes and related forms of humor. Criticizing and modifying traditional concepts and methods of analysis, it delineates an approach that explains the peculiarities of various forms of humorous expression.

Spis treści

Introduction to the Transaction Edition 
Acknowledgments 
1. Appropriate Incongruity 
2. To Skin an Elephant: On the Presumption of Aggression in Humor
3. Jokes and the Discourse on Disaster 
4. On the Structure of a Humorous Repertoire 
5. Redundancy in Repertoire 
6. Rechnitzer Rejects: An Unorthodox Humor of Modern Orthodoxy
7. Between Jokes and Tales 
8. Freud and Humor: Analytic Reflections
9. The People of the Joke 
10. Self-Degrading Jokes and Tales 
11. Dyadic Traditions 
Notes 
Index 

O autorze

Elliott Oring is professor emeritus of anthropology at California State University, Los Angeles. He is a member of the International Society for Humor Studies and a fellow of the American Folklore Society. He has published widely in the areas of folklore, humor and symbolism, and is the author of numerous books including The Jokes of Sigmund Freud, Humor and the Individual and Engaging Humor.