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Humour: A Very Short Introduction
Noël Carroll
Humour: A Very Short Introduction considers the relation of humour to emotion and cognition, explores the value of humour in its social functions, and examines the leading ...
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3. Humour and value
Noël Carroll
in Humour: A Very Short Introduction
‘Humour and value’ concerns the relation of humour to value, specifically in terms of its social functions. Humour, and the comic amusement that attends it, has a crucial role to play in ...
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1. World
Bart van Es
in Shakespeare's Comedies: A Very Short Introduction
‘World’ looks at the ‘world’ of Shakespearean comedy, isolating the distinctive way that its stories play out in space. There is something dreamlike about all Shakespeare’s comedies—whether ...
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2. Humour, emotion, and cognition
Noël Carroll
in Humour: A Very Short Introduction
‘Humour, emotion, and cognition’ examines the relation of humour to emotion and cognition and begins by considering whether comic amusement is an emotion. By considering comic amusement as ...
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6. Return to tragedy
Stanley Wells
in William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction
‘Return to tragedy’ begins by looking at the plays Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. It is a tribute to the Globe playgoers that Shakespeare’s longest play—Hamlet—one of the most ...
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