Histories of laughter and laughter in history historisus

Laughter is often no laughing matter, and, as such, it deserves continued scholarly attention as a social, cultural and historical phenomenon. This collection of essays is a meeting ground for scholars from several disciplines, including historians, philologists, and scholars of social sciences, to...

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Otros Autores: Borysławski, Rafał (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2016.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario:Laughter is often no laughing matter, and, as such, it deserves continued scholarly attention as a social, cultural and historical phenomenon. This collection of essays is a meeting ground for scholars from several disciplines, including historians, philologists, and scholars of social sciences, to discuss places and roles of laughter in history, in historical narratives, and in cultural anthropology from prehistory to the present. The common foci of the papers gathered in this volume are to examine laughter and its meanings, to reflect on the place of laughter in Western history and literatur.
Descripción Física:ix, 233 p.
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781443898546