The Importance of Not Being Earnest: The Feeling Behind Laughter and Humor by Wallace Chafe

The Importance of Not Being Earnest: The Feeling Behind Laughter and Humor

Consciousness & Emotion Book #3

Wallace Chafe

167 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction funny informative medium-paced
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The thesis of this book is that neither laughter nor humor can be understood apart from the feeling that underlies them. This feeling is a mental state in which people exclude some situation from their knowledge of how the world really is, thereby...

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