Of corpse death and humor in folklore and popular culture

"Laughter, contemporary theory suggests, is often aggressive in some manner and may be prompted by a sudden perception of incongruity combined with memories of past emotional experience. Given this importance of the past to our recognition of the comic, it follows that some "traditions&quo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Narváez, Peter (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press 2003.
Colección:JSTOR Open Access monographs.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35739472*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
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  • Making a big apple crumble: the role of humor in constructing a global response to disaster / Bill Ellis
  • Creating situations: practical jokes and the revival of the dead in Irish tradition / Ilana Harlow
  • Tricks and fun: subversive pleasures at Newfoundland wakes / Peter Narváez
  • "Pardon me for not standing": modern America graveyard humor / Richard E. Meyer
  • Wishes come true: designing the Greenwich Village Halloween parade / Jack Kugelmass
  • Making merry with death: iconic humor in Mexico's Day of the Dead / Kristin Congdon
  • Calaveras: literary humor in Mexico's Day of the Dead / Stanley Brandes
  • Exit laughing: death and laughter in Los Angeles and Port-au-Prince / Donald J. Cosentino
  • Dancing skeletons: the subversion of death among deadheads / LuAnne K. Roth
  • Traditional narrative, popular aesthetics, Weekend at Bernie's, and vernacular cinema / Mikel Koven.