Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g
Gershon Legman and the Psychopathology of Humor
Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g
ISBN: 978-1-138-17624-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Brottman rethinks not only the mechanisms of humor but also the relation of humor to the body and the senses. To this end, she provides an engrossing account of the life and work of Gershon Legman, exiled author, publisher, and sexologist, Alfred Kinsey's first bibliographer, and legendary compiler of the dirty joke. Like Freud, Legman was convinced of the impossibility of understanding humor apart from sex, and Brottman shows how his two massive works on the subject, Rationale of the Dirty Joke and No Laughing Matter, provide a framework for understanding the ambivalent and often hostile impulses that underlie the comic impulse in its various guises. In lively and enlivening chapters, she traverses dirty jokes, the figure of the "evil clown" in popular culture, the current popularity of "humor therapy," changing fashions in stand-up comedy, and the connection between humor and horror. Brottman's sparkling prose, laced with wit, does not obscure the seriousness of Funny Peculiar. It is a thoughtful and wide-ranging elaboration of the Freudian claim that joking, in point of fact, is no laughing matter.
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Professional and Professional Practice & Development
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Introduction. Legitimizing Legman. Against Jokes. Against Laughter. Against Clowns. Against Stand-Up. Against Humor Therapy. Afterword: Risus Sardonicus.