Gebundenes Buch

Humour, Comedy and Laughter

Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life

Herausgeber: Sciama, Lidia Dina

Beschreibung

An examination of the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humour and its potential to bring about a sense of amity and mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile people. Describes how the positive aspects of humour far outweigh the danger of deepening divisions and fuelling hostilities.

Autor

Lidia Dina Sciama is former Director of the International Gender Studies Centre (formerly the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women), University of Oxford, where she is currently a Research Associate. She is the author of A Venetian Island: Environment, History and Change in Burano (Berghahn 2003).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780857450746
• ISBN-10: 0857450743
• Artikelnr.: 44944763