Histories of laughter and laughter in history : historisus / edited by Rafał Borysławski, [and 3 others].

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Borysławski, Rafał [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016Description: 1 online resource (ix, 233 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781443898546
1443898546

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Histories of laughter and laughter in history.DDC classification:

152.43 23

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BF575.L3 H57 2016eb

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Summary: 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.

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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.

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