Democritus; Or, The Future of Laughter
Author: Gerald Gould
Publisher: London, Paul
Published: 1929
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13:
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Pons Asinorum, or the Future of Nonsense Democritus or the Future of Laughter Mrs Fisher or the Future of Humour, Babel, or the Past, Present and Future of Human Speech
Author: George Edinger
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-13
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 1135029067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPons Asinorum Or The Future of Nonsense George Edinger and E J C Neep Originally published in 1929. "A most entertaining essay, rich in quotation from the old masters of clownship’s craft." Saturday Review The author maintains that true nonsense must be aimless humour – the humour that makes fun as opposed to the humour that makes fun of something. 88pp Democritus Or The Future of Laughter Gerald Gould Originally published in 1929. "Democritus is bound to be among the favourites of the series. Gould’s humour glances at history, morality, and humanity...wise and witty writing." Observer Democritus is intended to illustrate the prevailing fashion in laughter and on the basis of historical and philosophical principles to forecast the humour of the future. 90pp Mrs Fisher Or The Future of Humour Robert Graves Originally published in 1928 "Mr Graves is the best man who could have been chosen to write on this subject." Daily Express "...perfectly irresponsible, as a joker should be." The Times This volume analyzes humour with a solemnity which becomes almost nightmarish. 90pp Babel Or the Past, Present and Future of Human Speech Richard Paget Originally published in 1930. "...stimulating and absorbing." Journal of Education This volume discusses human speech and treats it as a growth which must be tamed if it is to fulfil its highest purpose as a symbolism for human thought. 86pp
Imagined Futures
Author: Max Saunders
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 0198829450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first substantial history and analysis of the To-Day and To-Morrow series which published 110 books from 1923 to 1931 and included works by J. B. S. Haldane, Bertrand Russell, Vernon Lee, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, Sylvia Pankhurst, Hugh MacDiarmid, James Jeans, J. D. Bernal, Winifred Holtby, and Andre Maurois.
Prosaic Desires
Author: Sara Crangle
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2010-07-05
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0748642862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudying the work of Joyce, Woolf, Stein and Beckett, Sara Crangle explores the everyday human longings found in Modernist writing. This discussion is set within a framework of continental philosophy, particularly the thinking of Emmanuel Levinas.
Daedalus
Author: John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
Publisher:
Published: 1928
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKLacan, Psychoanalysis, and Comedy
Author: Patricia Gherovici
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-08-02
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1316688119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays explores laughter, humor, and the comic from a psychoanalytic perspective. Edited by two leading practicing psychoanalysts and with original contributions from Lacanian practitioners and scholars, this cutting-edge volume proposes a paradigm swerve, a Freudian slip on a banana peel. Psychoanalysis has long been associated with tragedy and there is a strong warrant to take up comedy as a more productive model for psychoanalytic practice and critique. Jokes and the comic have not received nearly as much consideration as they deserve given the fundamental role they play in our psychic lives and the way they unite the fields of aesthetics, literature, and psychoanalysis. Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Comedy addresses this lack and opens up the discussion.
Saxo Grammaticus; Or, First Aid for the Best-seller
Author: Ernest Weekley
Publisher:
Published: 1930
Total Pages: 124
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Positive Psychology of Laughter and Humour
Author: Freda Gonot-Schoupinsky
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2024-05-09
Total Pages: 185
ISBN-13: 1837538344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on the authors’ diverse backgrounds and expertise, this is the first academic volume dedicated to the rarely discussed topic of laughter and humour in positive psychology.
Tantalus, Or The Future of Man
Author: F. C. S. Schiller
Publisher:
Published: 1931
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreek Dialogue in Antiquity
Author: Katarzyna Jażdżewska
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-01-30
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 0192645420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreek Dialogue in Antiquity reexamines evidence for Greek dialogue between the mid-fourth century BCE and the mid-first century CE - that is, roughly from Plato's death to the death of Philo of Alexandria. Although the genre of dialogue in antiquity has attracted a growing interest in the past two decades, the time covered in this book has remained overlooked and unresearched, with scholars believing that for much of this period the dialogue genre went through a period of decline and was revived only in the Roman times. The book carefully reassesses Post-Platonic and Hellenistic evidence, including papyri fragments, which have never been discussed in this context, and challenges the narrative of the dialogue's decline and subsequent revival, postulating, instead, the genre's unbroken continuity from the Classical period to the Roman Empire. It argues that dialogues and texts creatively interacting with dialogic conventions were composed throughout Hellenistic times, and proposes to reconceptualize the imperial period dialogue as evidence not of a resurgence, but of continuity in this literary tradition.
