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2018
Did Shakespeare believe in the four humours? And did he write ‘humours comedy’? To address these questions, this chapter suggests that humoral theory is intimately bound up with early modern ideas of selfhood, not merely as a metaphor, but as a literal understanding of the processes at work in cognition, emotion, and selfhood. A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
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Did Shakespeare believe in the four humours? And did he write ‘humours comedy’? To address these questions, this chapter suggests that humoral theory is intimately bound up with early modern ideas of selfhood, not merely as a metaphor, but as a literal understanding of the processes at work in cognition, emotion, and selfhood. A Midsummer Night’s Dream,
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2009
Humour is a pervasive feature of human life. It's found everywhere — at work and at play, in private and public affairs. Sometimes we make it ourselves; often we pay others to create it for us, including playwrights, novelists, filmmakers, stand-up comics, clowns, and so on. According to some, like Rabelais, humour is alleged to be distinctively human,
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Humour is a pervasive feature of human life. It's found everywhere — at work and at play, in private and public affairs. Sometimes we make it ourselves; often we pay others to create it for us, including playwrights, novelists, filmmakers, stand-up comics, clowns, and so on. According to some, like Rabelais, humour is alleged to be distinctively human,
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1998
Abstract Humour is one of the most attractive ingredients of Cicero’s letters. But it would be misguided to view it as a straightforward feature of artless conversation, which allows us to escape from the artificialities of premeditated expression.
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Abstract Humour is one of the most attractive ingredients of Cicero’s letters. But it would be misguided to view it as a straightforward feature of artless conversation, which allows us to escape from the artificialities of premeditated expression.
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Abstract This chapter discusses the ethics of jokes and other humour. The chapter begins by identifying the categories of humour that are thought to raise moral questions. Next, two distinctions between different moral criticisms of humour are drawn: First, there is a distinction between those criticisms that focus on the person ...
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Strategic humour: Public diplomacy and comic framing of foreign policy issues
British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2022Dmitry Chernobrov
exaly