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Emergency Laughter eBookMike CyraKindle Store |
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Laughter the Best MedicineEditors of Reader's DigestLaughter |
More than 600 jokes, gags and laugh lines. Drawn from one of the most popular features of Reader's Digest magazine, this collection of jokes, one-liners, and other lighthearted glimpses of life is just what the doctor ordered. |
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Laughter, The Best Medicine IIEditors of Reader's DigestBooks |
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Serious Laughter Yvonne F. Conte
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Laughter TherapyAnnette GoodheartBooks |
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LaughterRobert R. ProvineBooks |
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Love, Light, LaughterOwen WatersBooks |
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LaughterHenri BergsonBooks |
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Laughter, Tears, SilencePragito DoveBooks |
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The Book of Laughter and ForgettingMilan KunderaBooks |
Laughter Most of our theories of laughter are not concerned with laughter. Rather, their focus is the laughable object, whether conceived of as the comic, the humorous, jokes, the grotesque, the ridiculous, or the ludicrous. In Laughter , Anca Parvulescu proposes a return to the materiality of the burst of laughter itself. She sets out to uncover an archive of laughter, inviting us to follow its rhythms and listen to its tones. Historically, laughter—especially the passionate burst of laughter—has often been a faux pas. Manuals for conduct, abetted by philosophical treatises and literary and visual texts, warned against it, offering special injunctions to ladies to avoid jollity that was too boisterous. Returning laughter to the history of the passions, Parvulescu anchors it at the point where the history of the grimacing face meets the history of noise. In the civilizing process that leads to laughter’s "falling into disrepute," as Nietzsche famously put it, we can see the formless, contorted face in laughter being slowly corrected into a calm, social smile. How did the twe... |
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LaughterAnca ParvulescuLaughter |
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The Healing Power of HumorAllen KleinBooks |
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