[PDF.10xv] The Game of Humor: A Comprehensive Theory of Why We Laugh

The Game of Humor: A Comprehensive Theory of Why We Laugh

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 | #2262000 in Books |  Transaction Publishers |  1999-02-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.02 x.47 x5.98l,.72 | File type: PDF | 204 pages

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||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| unprovocative thesis|By Cutting Moulton|The gist of Gruner's book is this: EVERY instance of humor involves a winner and a loser (like a game). Despite this being a decent observation that pertains to some humor, Gruner claims this is the case of ALL humor. In fact, he goes to great lengths to "demonstrate" how every joke or pun involves a winner and a loser. However, many of h| || “Gruner expounds on Koestler's notion that aggression is the one indispensable ingredient for humor by taking on the daunting task of finding aggressive themes in hundreds of instances of humor over a wide historical period… A controversial boo

Humor, wit, and laughter surround each person. From everyday quips to the carefully contrived comedy of literature, newspapers, and television we experience humor in many forms, yet the impetus for our laughter is far from innocuous. Misfortune, stupidity, and moral or cultural defects, however faintly revealed in others and ourselves, seem to make us laugh. Although discomforting, such negative terms as superiority, aggression, hostility, ridicule, or degradation can...

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