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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-14 - Publisher: SUNY Press
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Language: en
Pages: 266
Pages: 266
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-14 - Publisher: State University of New York Press
Plato was described as a boor and it was said that he never laughed out loud. Yet his dialogues abound with puns, jokes, and humor. Sonja Madeleine Tanner argue
Language: en
Pages: 305
Pages: 305
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher:
Ancient philosophers were very interested in questions about laughter, humor and comedy. They theorized about laughter and its causes, moralized about the appro
Language: en
Pages: 449
Pages: 449
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
So this English professor comes into class and starts talking about the textual organization of jokes, the taxonomy of puns, the relations between the linguisti
Language: en
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-06-24 - Publisher: Penguin
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