Jokes and their Relations to Society: A - Et

Christie Davies

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Jokes and their Relations to Society

Christie Davies

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Published/Copyright: 1998

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Volume 4 | Humor Research [HR]

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Chapter 2. Fooltowns: Traditional and modern Local, regional and ethnic jokes about stupidity
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Chapter 3. From the Milesians to the Milesians: The Irish-Pontian joke, its history and its absence in China and Japan
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Chapter 4. The Protestant ethic and the comic spirit of capitalism
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Chapter 5. Stupidity and rationality: Jokes from the iron cage
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Chapter 6. Humour for the future and a future for humour
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Chapter 7. Ethnic jokes about alcohol: A study of the humour of ambivalence
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Chapter 8. "Nasty" legends, "sick" humour and ethnic jokes about stupidity
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Chapter 9. Making fun of work: Humour as sociology in the humorous writings of H. G. Wells
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Chapter 10. Conclusion
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Jokes and their Relations to Society

Overview

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of tables

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Fooltowns: Traditional and modern Local, regional and ethnic jokes about stupidity

Chapter 3. From the Milesians to the Milesians: The Irish-Pontian joke, its history and its absence in China and Japan

Chapter 4. The Protestant ethic and the comic spirit of capitalism

Chapter 5. Stupidity and rationality: Jokes from the iron cage

Chapter 6. Humour for the future and a future for humour

Chapter 7. Ethnic jokes about alcohol: A study of the humour of ambivalence

Chapter 8. "Nasty" legends, "sick" humour and ethnic jokes about stupidity

Chapter 9. Making fun of work: Humour as sociology in the humorous writings of H. G. Wells

Chapter 10. Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

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