Author: Bill Wannan
Publisher: Melbourne : Lansdowne Press
ISBN:
Category : Australian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
A Treasury of Australian Humour
Author: Bill Wannan
Publisher: Melbourne : Lansdowne Press
ISBN:
Category : Australian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: Melbourne : Lansdowne Press
ISBN:
Category : Australian literature
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
Australian Folklore
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Engaging Humor
Author: Elliott Oring
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252092058
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Exploring the structure, motives, and meanings of humor in everyday life In Engaging Humor, Elliott Oring asks essential questions concerning humorous expression in contemporary society, examining how humor works, why it is employed, and what its messages might be. This provocative book is filled with examples of jokes and riddles that reveal humor to be a meaningful--even significant--form of expression. Oring scrutinizes classic Jewish jokes, frontier humor, racist cartoons, blonde jokes, and Internet humor. He provides alternate ways of thinking about humorous expressions by examining their contexts--not just their contents. He also shows how the incongruity and absurdity essential to the production of laughter can serve serious communicative ends. Engaging Humor examines the thoughts that underlie jokes, the question of racist motivation in ethnic humor, and the use of humor as a commentary on social interaction. The book also explores the relationship between humor and sentimentality and the role of humor in forging national identity. Engaging Humor demonstrates that when analyzed contextually and comparatively, humorous expressions emerge as communications that are startling, intriguing, and profound.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252092058
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Exploring the structure, motives, and meanings of humor in everyday life In Engaging Humor, Elliott Oring asks essential questions concerning humorous expression in contemporary society, examining how humor works, why it is employed, and what its messages might be. This provocative book is filled with examples of jokes and riddles that reveal humor to be a meaningful--even significant--form of expression. Oring scrutinizes classic Jewish jokes, frontier humor, racist cartoons, blonde jokes, and Internet humor. He provides alternate ways of thinking about humorous expressions by examining their contexts--not just their contents. He also shows how the incongruity and absurdity essential to the production of laughter can serve serious communicative ends. Engaging Humor examines the thoughts that underlie jokes, the question of racist motivation in ethnic humor, and the use of humor as a commentary on social interaction. The book also explores the relationship between humor and sentimentality and the role of humor in forging national identity. Engaging Humor demonstrates that when analyzed contextually and comparatively, humorous expressions emerge as communications that are startling, intriguing, and profound.
A Bibliography of Australian Folklore, 1790 to 1990
Author: David S. Hults
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Contains only publications culled from Ferguson and the Australian national bibliography (and it predecessors).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Contains only publications culled from Ferguson and the Australian national bibliography (and it predecessors).
Australian National Bibliography
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
British Book News
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
Copyright Publications
Author: New Zealand. Parliament. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Zealand
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The British National Bibliography
Author: Arthur James Wells
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1388
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1388
Book Description
The British National Bibliography Cumulated Subject Catalogue
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 1028
Book Description