Mirror of Laughter

"Greatly enlarged English version"--Pref., p. ix

List of contents

Preface
1. The Comical, or Imitation of Inferior People
Incongruity, Degradation, and Self-Parody: The Implicit Narrator
Subject and Object: Relation and Metarelation
Funniness and Ridicule: An Essay on Nonentities
Who is the Inferior Other?
2. The Origins
Humor, Laughter, and the Brain
From Tickling to Humor
From Laughter to Humor
Play-Challenge, or James Sully Redux

3. Play, Language, and Laughter
Orderly Play as a Metaphor of Culture
Disorderly Play as a Metaphor of Nature
The Anti-Referential Function of Language
Irony and Humor: The Two Ways of Playing with Signs
Humor and Laughter as a Species Reaction
4. Culture versus Nature
Emotions, Reflexes, and Symbols
Laughter and Evil: The History of a Misunderstanding

Conclusions
Index of Names
Index of Subjects

About the author

Alexander Kozintsev

Summary

The Mirror of Laughter presents a theory of humor and laughter by examining their relationship to human behaviors

Product details

• Authors: Alexander Kozintsev, Alexander/ Martin Kozintsev, Kozintsev Alexander
• Assisted by: Richard Martin (Translation), Richard P. Martin (Translation)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2010
• EAN: 9781412810999
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-1099-9
• No. of pages: 298
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology