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  • The Jokes of Sigmund Freud

    A Study in Humor and Jewish Identity

    de Elliott Oring ...
    The Jokes of Sigmund Freud unravels the intimate connections between Sigmund Freud and his Jewish identity. Author Elliott Oring observes that Freud frequently identified with the characters in the jokes he told, and that there was a strong relationship between these jokes and his own psychological and social state. This analysis offers novel insights into the enigmatic character of Freud and a ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Jokes and Their Relations

    de Elliott Oring ...
    Almost everyone tells and appreciates jokes. Yet the nature of jokes has proved elusive. When asked what they really mean, people tend to laugh off the question, dismissing jokes as meaningless or too obvious to require explanation. Of those who have seriously sought to understand humor, most have explained jokes as expressions of aggression- a socially acceptable way of showing contempt and ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Joking Asides

    The Theory, Analysis, and Aesthetics of Humor

    de Elliott Oring ...
    Nothing in the understanding of humor is as simple as it might seem. In Joking Asides, Elliott Oring confronts the problems of humor, analyzing the key contemporary approaches to its study and addressing controversial topics with new empirical data and insights.A folklorist drawn to the study of humor, Oring developed his formulation of “appropriate incongruity” as a frame to understand what jokes ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore Essays

    de Elliott Oring ...
    The Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore Essays unfolds as a series of questions, commentaries, and criticisms of the analysis, interpretation, and explanation of folklore. Can we confidently regard jokes as the catharsis of sexual and aggressive impulses? What is the basis for characterizing a joke as Jewish or Scottish or Japanese? What do we really know about “dirty jokes”? How is a text or ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Folklore Concepts

    Histories and Critiques

    de Dan Ben-Amos ...
    By defining folklore as artistic communication in small groups, Dan Ben-Amos led the discipline of Folklore in new directions. In Folklore Concepts, Henry Glassie and Elliott Oring have curated a selection of Ben-Amos's groundbreaking essays that explore folklore as a category in cultural communication and as a subject of scholarly research. Ben-Amos's work is well-known for sparking lively debate ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • The First Book of Jewish Jokes

    The Collection of L. M. Büschenthal

    Edición de Elliott Oring ...
    Works on Jewish humor and Jewish jokes abound today, but what formed the basis for our contemporary notions of Jewish jokes? How and when did these perceptions develop? In this groundbreaking study and translation, noted humor and folklore scholar Elliott Oring introduces us to the joke collections of Lippmann Moses Büschenthal, an enlightened rabbi, and an unknown author writing as "Judas Ascher. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Folk Groups And Folklore Genres

    An Introduction

    Edición de Elliott Oring ...
    Oring's introductory folklore text consists of a series of essays by leading scholars that give the student a solid sense of major folklore topics and interpretive techniques. This book has met the need for good instructional material for decades- covering a period of tremendous growth in folklore programs and introductory courses in colleges and universities around the world. ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

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  • Literature: An Introduction to Theory and Analysis

    How does literature work? And what does it mean? How does it relate to the world: to politics, to history, to the environment? How do we analyse and interpret a literary text, paying attention to its specific poetic and fictitious qualities? This wide-ranging introduction helps students to explore these and many other essential questions in the study of literature, criticism and theory. In a ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • On Close Reading

    de John Guillory, Scott Newstok ...
    John Guillory considers close reading within the larger history of reading and writing as cultural techniques.At a time of debate about the future of "English" as a discipline and the fundamental methods of literary study, few terms appear more frequently than "close reading," now widely regarded as the core practice of literary study. But what exactly is close reading, and where did it come from? ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Historiographic Metafiction

    de Barry Pomeroy ...
    In this project I ground my reading of historiographic metafiction in a series of postmodern texts which work out of and subvert traditional notions of historical writing. I use Linda Hutcheon's construction of this postmodern genre to investigate the particular literary and historical strategies these texts use and abuse in order to write an alternative history. Beginning by reviewing the theory ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature

    Edición de Noël Carroll, John Gibson ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature is an in-depth examination of literature through a philosophical lens, written by distinguished figures across the major divisions of philosophy. Its 40 newly-commissioned essays are divided into six sections:historical foundationswhat is literature?aesthetics & appreciationmeaning & interpretationmetaphysics & epistemology</li... ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Summary and Analysis of Man's Search for Meaning

    Based on the Book by Victor E. Frankl

    de Worth Books ...
    Series series Smart Summaries
    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Man's Search for Meaning tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Viktor E. Frankl's book.Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.This short summary and analysis of Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl includes:Historical ... Leer más

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