Argument of laughter
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 1963
Place of publication: [Notre Dame]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Lach; Humor (grappigheden); Laughter
Notes: Originally published 1951. Reprinted by permission of the Melbourne University Press, Victoria, Australia.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. What we laugh at. The problem of laughter; title: Non-humorous laughter; title: Types of humour; title: Comedy of character; title: Finding connections; title: Nonsense; title: Misfortunes; title: pt. 2. Theories of humour. Superiority theories. I. Hobbes and Bain. II. Leavock and Ludovici; title: Bergson; title: Feibleman and McDougall; title: Incongruity theories. I. Kant, Schopenhauer and Spencer. II. Eastman; title: Release from restraint. I. Kline. II. Freud. III. Gregory; title: Ambivalence. I. Greig. II. Menon; title: pt. 3. Synthesis. The inappropriate.