Intricate Laughter in the Satire of Swift and PopeMacmillan, 1986 - 206 sidor While the eighteenth century was a period in which satire flourished, many eighteenth-century writers felt considerable unease about the form, and about the laughter it produced. This book explores the intricate effects of satiric laughter, taking as its focus the satire of swift and Pope. Laughter is a weapon which excludes its victim not only from society but from the state of being human. At the same time laughter can achieve and strengthen group identity for those who are engaged in laughing, it is also frequently used as a weapon within society. The satirist, in encouraging laughter, reactivates and legitimizes his reader's childhood sense of play in order to secure endorsement of the satiric attack. The greatest satire however, transcends personal attack and brings the reader to affirm, through laughter, belief in the abiding worth of humankind. |
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... Hobbes . Hobbes , through his remarks on laughter in particular , and his view of the nature of man and of society in general , haunts discussions of wit , humour , satire and associated subjects well on into the eighteenth century ...
... Hobbes . Hobbes , through his remarks on laughter in particular , and his view of the nature of man and of society in general , haunts discussions of wit , humour , satire and associated subjects well on into the eighteenth century ...
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... Hobbes had to say on laughter that so disturbed later writers on the subject . Man the laugher was only a small part of man in a State of War by Nature ' . The terms Hobbes uses in discussing laughter are pointed by his use of them ...
... Hobbes had to say on laughter that so disturbed later writers on the subject . Man the laugher was only a small part of man in a State of War by Nature ' . The terms Hobbes uses in discussing laughter are pointed by his use of them ...
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Allan Ingram. Ecclesiastical and Civil ' with its unrelentingly analytical prose . Where Hobbes had insisted upon the ... Hobbes lays the laugh open to profoundly disturbing questions , and ones which Shaftesbury comes nowhere near facing ...
Allan Ingram. Ecclesiastical and Civil ' with its unrelentingly analytical prose . Where Hobbes had insisted upon the ... Hobbes lays the laugh open to profoundly disturbing questions , and ones which Shaftesbury comes nowhere near facing ...
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Laughter | 40 |
Laughter in Society | 82 |
The Playground of the Mind | 118 |
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Intricate Laughter in the Satire of Swift and Pope Allan Ingram Fragmentarisk förhandsgranskning - 1986 |
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