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Taking laughter seriously
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The article was published on 1982-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 475 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Laughter.read more
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How to kill with a smile – how to smile about a kill: violent clowns as double incongruity
TL;DR: In this article, the General Theory of Verbal Humor and its expansions were applied to the friendly clown and transferred to scary materials represented through the figure of the evil, violent clown.
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‘I could not but smile’: the comic Crusoe and the subversion of Puritan self-production
TL;DR: The authors argue that the presence of the comic in Robinson Crusoe divorces subject from selfhood, and suggest that Crusoe undergoes a process of comic dismemberment whereby the permutation of self produced by Puritan spiritual autobiography is exposed as a mute object.
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Laughing with an Iranian American Woman: Firoozeh Dumas's Memoirs and the (Cross-) Cultural Work of Humor
TL;DR: The authors analyzed Firoozeh Dumas's humorous memoirs and situates them in the multiple contexts of post-9/11 Muslim American responses to Islamophobia, women's humor, and Iranian American women's life writing, arguing that Dumas employs the beneficial and inclusive (not malign and exclusive) positive mode of humorous personal storytelling to build connection through laughter via the emotional and cognitive shifts structurally central to humor.