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Title: Comedy: An Essay on Comedy by George Meredith, Wylie Sypher, Henri Bergson ISBN: 0-8018-2327-7 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1980 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best theoretical study of comedy available
Comment: Bergson's _Laughter_ has been out of print for too long. It's the best theoretical study of comedy available. A meditation by the great philosopher of "elan vital" about our natural response to humans acting mechanically, _Laughter_ is also about the nuts and bolts of comedy. Moliere is the main model, but it works for Shakespeare, Chaplin and Preston Sturges just as well.
Rating: 5
Summary: Euphoria
Comment: Bergson offers a taxonomy of laughter. The description is concise, realistic, and rife with examples. He begins with a broad definition of anything that is laughable and further narrows the definition where appropriate. Never have I encountered an example not explainable by this.
Rating: 5
Summary: Henri Bergson is brilliant.
Comment: Henri Bergson describes why we laugh, and subdivides this description further into three characteristics. Each of these characteristics is then divided further occassionally. Example: >We laugh at mechanical rigidity. The three types are repetition, inversion, and reciprocal interference of series. An example of repetition is a frozen facial expression (repetition) and is comical only if it's imitatable.< Then he proceeds to give examples of word play, character, actions, etc which illustrate his points.
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Title: Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious by Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Peter Gay ISBN: 0393001458 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1963 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Laughter: A Scientific Investigation by Robert R. Provine ISBN: 0141002255 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 27 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: On Humour (Thinking in Action) by Simon Critchley ISBN: 0415251214 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters by Ted Cohen ISBN: 0226112314 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: Classical Comedy Greek and Roman by Robert W. Corrigan ISBN: 0936839856 Publisher: Applause Books Pub. Date: November, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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