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Стивен Ликок. Humor: Its Theory and Technique
Humor: Its Theory and Technique
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. AN ANALYSIS OF HUMOR
CHAPTER II. FUN WITH WORDS
CHAPTER III. PARODY, BURLESQUE AND MISTRANSLATION
CHAPTER IV. TECHNIQUE OF THE GREATER HUMORISTS: CHARLES DICKENS AND MARK TWAIN
CHAPTER V. COMIC AND SUPER-COMIC VERSE
CHAPTER VI. AN APPENDED SAMPLE
CHAPTER VII. STORY TELLERS AND STORY KILLERS
CHAPTER VIII. NATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS
Punch Joke:
Spanish Version:
Punch Joke:
Spanish Version:
Punch Joke:
Spanish Form of the Joke:
CHAPTER IX. HUMOR THROUGH THE AGES
CHAPTER X. THIS VERY MINUTE
CHAPTER XI. EPILOGUE: FROM THE RIDICULOUS TO THE SUBLIME
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Stephen Butler Leacock
Published by Good Press, 2021
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But these and other verbal forms are but a matter of the technique, the mode, of humor, not the informing spirit which is its essence. Beyond the verbal effects of jangling syllables and misused words is the higher stage of the humor of character, turning on the contrasts of incongruities that make up “queer” people.
Beyond this again is humor in its highest meaning and its furthest reach which does not depend on verbal incongruities, or on tricks of sight and hearing. It finds its basis in the incongruity of life itself, the contrast between the fretting cares and the petty sorrows of the day and the long mystery of the tomorrow. Here laughter and tears become one, and humor becomes the contemplation and interpretation of our life. In this aspect the thought of the nineteenth century far excelled all that had preceded it. The very wistfulness of its new ignorance—contrasted with the brazen certainly of bygone dogma—lends it something pathetic.
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