| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 178 pages) |
| Contents |
A survey of humor -- Problems of humor -- A metaphoric discussion -- The unconscious -- Levels of living -- The uses of humor -- Background for theory -- Humor's anatomy |
| Summary |
"This book is a distillation of thoughts and findings encountered in the process of working as Research Assistant in the Department of Anthropology at Stanford University. I was working in association with Gregory Bateson and the other members of our research staff in an exploration of the functions of the paradoxes of abstraction in implicit communication, humor, mental illness, psychotherapy, and culture. The, first part of the book, consisting of two chapters, serves mainly as a very general introduction to the subject of humor. The second part of the book is a group of four chapters which have little apparent interrelationship (except that they are all about humor in one way or another). Weakly related as they are, however, these chapters serve to introduce a variety of ideas important to the climax, and concluding part, of the book. This third part is divided into two closely connected chapters--one historical and the other expositive. These chapters are the real raison d'etre of the book and present the theory of the structure of humor that developed during my research studies mentioned above"--Preface. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2009 APA, all rights reserved) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-178) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| In |
PsycBOOKS (EBSCO). EBSCO |
| Subject |
Wit and humor -- History and criticism.
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Wit and Humor as Topic -- history
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Wit and humor.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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