Taking Humour Seriously

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Jerry Palmer

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In "Taking Humour Seriously", Jerry Palmer argues that we must take humour seriously (as well as humorously) or fail to understand a fundamental element of culture. He aims to unravel humour's multi-dimensional nature. It is part of our personality and our cognitive and emotional processes and subject to the social rules which govern our behaviour on different occasions. It is integral to literary and visual narrative; it is subject to moral and aesthetic judgement and it is a rhetorical instrument. Palmer argues that only by investigating these separate dimensions can we begin to understand the phenomenon of humour. "Taking Humour Seriously" examines the role humour and comedy play in many different types of society. It looks at the many different approaches to its study - from Freud to anthropology, from literary criticism to biology.

Author Biography:

Jerry Palmer is Professor of Communications at London Guildhall University and the author of numerous studies of popular culture, fiction, film and comedy.

Release date Australia

December 16th, 1993

Author

Jerry Palmer

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

212

Dimensions

156x234x13

ISBN-13

9780415102667

Product ID

2801591

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