The Resource The senses of humor : self and laughter in modern America, Daniel Wickberg
The senses of humor : self and laughter in modern America, Daniel Wickberg
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- Summary
- "The expression "sense of humor" was first coined in the 1840s, and the idea that such a sense was a personality trait to be valued developed only in the 1870s. What is the relationship between medieval humoral medicine and this distinctively modern idea of the sense of humor? What has it meant in the past 125 years to declare that someone lacks a sense of humor? Why do modern Americans say it is a good thing not to take oneself seriously? How is the joke, as a twentieth-century quasi-literary form, different from the traditional folktale? Wickberg addresses these questions among others and in the process uses the history of ideas to throw new light on the way contemporary Americans think and speak about humor and laughter." "The context of Wickberg's analysis is Anglo-American; the specifically British meanings of humor and laughter from the sixteenth century forward provide the framework for understanding American cultural values in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The genealogy of the sense of humor is, like the study of keywords, an avenue into a significant aspect of the cultural history of modernity. Drawing on a wide range of sources and disciplinary perspectives, Wickberg's analysis challenges many of the prevailing views of modern American culture and suggests a new model for cultural historians."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The senses of humor : self and laughter in modern America
- Title
- The senses of humor
- Title remainder
- self and laughter in modern America
- Statement of responsibility
- Daniel Wickberg
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The expression "sense of humor" was first coined in the 1840s, and the idea that such a sense was a personality trait to be valued developed only in the 1870s. What is the relationship between medieval humoral medicine and this distinctively modern idea of the sense of humor? What has it meant in the past 125 years to declare that someone lacks a sense of humor? Why do modern Americans say it is a good thing not to take oneself seriously? How is the joke, as a twentieth-century quasi-literary form, different from the traditional folktale? Wickberg addresses these questions among others and in the process uses the history of ideas to throw new light on the way contemporary Americans think and speak about humor and laughter." "The context of Wickberg's analysis is Anglo-American; the specifically British meanings of humor and laughter from the sixteenth century forward provide the framework for understanding American cultural values in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The genealogy of the sense of humor is, like the study of keywords, an avenue into a significant aspect of the cultural history of modernity. Drawing on a wide range of sources and disciplinary perspectives, Wickberg's analysis challenges many of the prevailing views of modern American culture and suggests a new model for cultural historians."--BOOK JACKET
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1960-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wickberg, Daniel
- Dewey number
- 817/.509
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS438
- LC item number
- .W47 1998
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- American wit and humor
- Laughter
- Self in literature
- American wit and humor
- United States
- Label
- The senses of humor : self and laughter in modern America, Daniel Wickberg
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-257) and index
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 37792351
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 267 pages
- Isbn
- 9780801430787
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 97030301
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- Label
- The senses of humor : self and laughter in modern America, Daniel Wickberg
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-257) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 37792351
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 267 pages
- Isbn
- 9780801430787
- Isbn Type
- (cloth : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 97030301
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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