| #3284894 in Books | Routledge | 2004-04-03 | 2004-05-13 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.46 x6.00l,.61 | File type: PDF | 200 pages | ||9 of 15 people found the following review helpful.| Funny but Serious!|By A Customer|This is a really great book, funny but serious as well. The first part is all about Legman, an eccentric collector of dirty jokes. The rest is about laughter and humor, and why people find things funny. It's not really a light hearted book, it might make you think carefully before you laugh, or tell a joke, but that's what's so interesting abou|||"Funny Peculiar is an intelligent, integrative study of the various forms and functions of humor. Brottman explores her topic through a series of essays on the comic world of laughter, jokes, clowns, comedians, and humor therapists, all of which are
Why are jokes funny? Why do we laugh? In Funny Peculiar, Mikita Brottman demurs from recent scholarship that takes laughter-- and the broader domain of humor and the comical--as a liberating social force and an endearing aspect of self-expression. For Brottman, there is nothing funny about laughter, which is less connected to mirth and feelings of good will than to a nexus of darker emotions: fear, aggression, shame, anxiety.
Brottman rethinks not only the...
You easily download any file type for your device.Funny Peculiar: Gershon Legman and the Psychopathology of Humor | Mikita Brottman. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.
