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List Of Humor Research Publications
This article lists publications in humor research, with brief annotations. The list includes books and scholarly journals that regularly cover articles in humor research. This list is not intended for humorous books and joke collections that do not have any scholarly analysis of humor. Early publications * Henri Bergson: his 1900 book of three essays, ''Laughter'', was written in French; its original title is ''Le Rire. Essai sur la signification du comique'' ("Laughter, an essay on the meaning of the comic"). *Sigmund Freud: his 1905 book on jokes and unconscious has been translated in many languages, including several translations in English **'' Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious'', Translated by James Strachey, 1963, W. W. Norton & Company, **''The Joke and Its Relation to the Unconscious'', Translated by Joyce Crick ***2002, Penguin, ***2003, Penguin Classics, *Max Eastman **''The Sense of Humor'', New York: Scribners, 1921 **''The Enjoyment of Laughter'', N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humor Research
Humor research (also humor studies) is a multifaceted field which enters the domains of linguistics, history, and literature. Research in humor has been done to understand the psychological and physiological effects, both positive and negative, on a person or groups of people. Research in humor has revealed many different theories of humor and many different kinds of humor including their functions and effects personally, in relationships, and in society. Areas Humor research deals with a wide variety of issues,M.P. Mulder, A. Nijholt (2002)Humour Research: State of the Art. which can be categorized according to several theories of humor. Because of its interdisciplinary nature, humor research has many areas of study which aim to explain the phenomenon of humor. Neuroanatomy of humor Cognitive neuroscience has provided insight into how humor is neurologically realized. Brain imaging techniques such as fMRI and PET scans have been implemented in this subfield of humor research. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cohen, Sarah Blacher
Sarah Blacher Cohen (June 11, 1936 in Appleton, Wisconsin, – November 10, 2008 in Albany, New York) was an American writer, scholar, and playwright, and a professor at SUNY Albany for 30 years. Her area of specialty was Jewish American fiction. Her published books include ''Comic Relief: Humor in Contemporary American Literature'', ''Saul Bellow's Enigmatic Laughter'' (1974), and ''Cynthia Ozick's Comic Art: From Levity to Liturgy''. She edited ''From Hester Street to Hollywood: The Jewish-American Stage and Screen'' (Jewish Literature and Culture Series), ''Making a Scene: The Contemporary Drama of Jewish-American Women'', and ''Jewish Wry: Essays on Jewish Humor''. Her plays include ''The Ladies Locker Room'', and ''Molly Picon's Return Engagement'', a biographical play with music on the star of Yiddish theater. She collaborated with Joanne Koch, starting in 1989 on ''Sophie, Totie, and Belle'', a musical on performers Sophie Tucker, Totie Fields, and Belle Barth. 'She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Paul Lewis (professor)
Paul Lewis is Professor of English in Boston College, Massachusetts, United States, specializing in humor, American literature and Gothic fiction. He has an A.B. from the City College of New York, a M.A.: University of Manitoba, Ph.D.: University of New Hampshire. He is also a freelance writer, who invented the neologism "frankenfood", critical of genetically modified food, in a letter he wrote to ''The New York Times'' in response to the decision of the US Food and Drug Administration to allow companies to market genetically modified food. The term "frankenfood" has become a battle cry of the European side in the US-EU agricultural trade war. Humor research His 2006 book ''"Cracking Up"'' about the new heyday of politically charged humor in the United States received significant coverage in the media, for example on ABC Radio, in ''The Chronicle of Higher Education ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'' is a newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rationale Of The Dirty Joke
''Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor'' is a book by American social critic and folklorist Gershon Legman. The book analyzes more than 2000 jokes and folk tales in terms of social, psychological, and historical significance. It was first published by Grove Press in 1968, was later reprinted in hard-cover by Indiana University, and was years out of print until reissued by Simon & Schuster in 2006. The second volume, ''No Laughing Matter: Rationale of the Dirty Joke: An Analysis of Sexual Humor, 2nd Series'', had to be paid for by subscription to support publishing, as it was the "dirty dirties". According to literary critic Mikita Brottman, "Contemporary humor theorists now ... give a warm, good-natured cast to the telling of jokes, without the nastiness and aggression that Legman -- and, indeed, Freud -- regard as an integral part of the joke-telling enterprise." There were several reviews of the book published in 1969. Brottman suggests, however, "all its r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gershon Legman
Gershon Legman (November 2, 1917 – February 23, 1999) was an American cultural critic and folklorist, best known for his books ''The Rationale of the Dirty Joke'' (1968) and ''The Horn Book: Studies in Erotic Folklore and Bibliography'' (1964). Life and work Legman was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Emil and Julia Friedman Legman, both of Hungarian-Jewish descent; his father was a railroad clerk and butcher. After a failed stab at rabbinical school Legman attended and graduated from Scranton's Central High School, where Jane Jacobs and Cy Endfield were classmates. He enrolled in the University of Michigan for one semester in the fall of 1935, but left without sitting for his exams. He then settled in New York City where for a number of years he was a part-time freelance assistant to the physician and sexological researcher Robert Latou Dickinson at the New York Academy of Medicine while simultaneously working in the bookshop of Jacob Brussel, where a brisk business ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humor Research
Humor research (also humor studies) is a multifaceted field which enters the domains of linguistics, history, and literature. Research in humor has been done to understand the psychological and physiological effects, both positive and negative, on a person or groups of people. Research in humor has revealed many different theories of humor and many different kinds of humor including their functions and effects personally, in relationships, and in society. Areas Humor research deals with a wide variety of issues,M.P. Mulder, A. Nijholt (2002)Humour Research: State of the Art. which can be categorized according to several theories of humor. Because of its interdisciplinary nature, humor research has many areas of study which aim to explain the phenomenon of humor. Neuroanatomy of humor Cognitive neuroscience has provided insight into how humor is neurologically realized. Brain imaging techniques such as fMRI and PET scans have been implemented in this subfield of humor research. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conrad Hyers
Merritt Conrad Hyers (1933–2013) was an American historian of religion and ordained Presbyterian minister. He taught for many years at Gustavus Adolphus College, and wrote multiple books on humor in religion and on Zen Buddhism. Early life and education Hyers was born on July 31, 1933, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He earned a bachelor's degree at Carson–Newman University in 1954, and a bachelor of divinity from the Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in 1958. He then earned a master of theology from the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1959, and completed his doctor of philosophy degree in theology and the philosophy of religion from the Princeton Theological Seminary in 1965. Academic career He taught the history of religion at Beloit College and then, beginning in 1977, at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota St. Peter is a city in Nicollet County, Minnesota, Nicollet County, Minnesota, United States. It is 10 miles north of the Mankato – North Manka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VDM Publishing
Omniscriptum Publishing Group, formerly known as VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, is a German publishing group headquartered in Riga, Latvia. Founded in 2002 in Düsseldorf, its book production is based on print-to-order technology. The company publishes theses, research notes, and dissertations through its e-commerce bookstores. Its publishing methods have been questioned for the soliciting of manuscripts from individuals, and for providing authors with the appearance of a peer-reviewed publishing history. OmniScriptum is designated as non-academic by the Norwegian Scientific Index, and its subsidiary Lambert Academic Publishing has been described as a predatory vanity press which does "not apply the basic standards of academic publishing such as peer-review, editorial or proof-reading processes." The company also offers print-to order publishing for fiction authors. It previously specialized in publishing and selling Wikipedia articles, but has stated that the practice of publishin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupert D
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University Of Wisconsin Press
The University of Wisconsin Press (sometimes abbreviated as UW Press) is a non-profit university press publishing peer-reviewed books and journals. It publishes work by scholars from the global academic community; works of fiction, memoir and poetry under its imprint, Terrace Books; and serves the citizens of Wisconsin by publishing important books about Wisconsin, the Upper Midwest, and the Great Lakes region. UW Press annually awards the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry, and The Four Lakes Prize in Poetry. The press was founded in 1936 in Madison and is one of more than 120 member presses in the Association of American University Presses. The Journals Division was established in 1965. The press employs approximately 25 full and part-time staff, produces 40 to 60 new books a year, and publishes 11 journals. It also distributes books and some annual journals for selected smaller publishers. The press is a unit of the Graduate School of the Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Galanter
Marc Galanter is a Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin Law School. Previously he was the John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and LSE Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He teaches South Asian Law, Law and Social Science, Legal Profession, Religion and the Law, Contracts, Dispute Processing and Negotiations. He has authored numerous books and articles related to law, the legal profession and the provision of legal services in India. Galanter is also an expert on the Bhopal disaster The Bhopal disaster, also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy, was a chemical accident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. Considered the world's ... that occurred in Bhopal, India in 1984. His collection of court documents, newspaper clippings, secondary sources and photo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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