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A Genealogy of the Ridiculous: From 'Humours' to Humour

Outlines, 1999
We tend to take the phenomenon of humour for granted, seeing it for the most part as something innately and fundamentally human. However we might go even further than this, and say that the phenomenon of humour is perceived as an essential part of what ...
Brenda Goldberg
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A Ridiculous Plan

Locke Studies, 2007
‘I am not so vain to think’, wrote Locke in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) ‘that any one can pretend to attempt the perfect reforming the languages of the world, no not so much as that of his own country, without rendring himself ridiculous’. It seems highly probable that among the objects of Locke’s scorn were the
Hannah Dawson
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What was ridiculous for a Sarmatian, and what made him smile

Stylistyka, 2021
DARIUSZ DYBEK
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Pourquoi les morts sont-ils si extravagants?

Carnets, 2012
“Why the dead are so extravagant?” In the Dialogue genre, “dialogue of the dead” is a minor sub- genre, often originating in the anonymous and clandestine literature, is indeed, an extravagant avatar, full of oddities and paradoxes.
João Domingues
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Nobody Cares, Lah!" The Phenomenon of Flaming on YouTube in Malaysia

Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, 2016
Objective: The purpose of this paper is to investigate what motivates people to provide malicious comments on YouTube in Malaysia. This study will also question the differences between how flaming is constructed in each video classification and how are ...
Revathy Amadera Lingam, Norizah Aripin
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Stratégies de salariés face à l’introduction de nouvelles méthodes de management

La Nouvelle Revue du Travail, 2013
The text builds on an anthropological survey conducted within a state-owned enterprise to show how the introduction of new management methods restricts employees' autonomy and imprisons them within models.
Michel Feynie
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Смех (в) „фантастической трилогии” Федорa Достоевского

Studia Rossica Posnaniensia
Among the works included in A writer’s diary by Fyodor Dostoevsky, literary scholars point out the “fantastic trilogy” – The dream of a ridiculous man, A gentle creature, and Bobok.
Natália Muránska
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Corne Ducale et Sainte-Chaussette dans la relation de voyage d’Evliyâ Çelebi

Cahiers Balkaniques, 2013
In the Seyahatnâme we find two references for a relic kept in Urfa at an uncertain date, stockings or sock of Jesus. This reference is related to the headdress characteristic of the Venitian Doge, the corno ducale, ridiculous according to Evliyâ because ...
Jean-Louis Bacqué-Grammont
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Confrontation and Ridicule

Informal Logic, 2009
Ridicule can be used in order to create concurrence as well as to en-hance antagonism. This paper deals with ridicule that is used by a critic when he is responding to a standpoint or to a reason advanced in support of a standpoint. Ridicule profits from humor’s good repu-tation, and correctly so, even when it is used in argumentative contexts. However,
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In the Forest Between Us

The International Journal of Screendance, 2015
My practice is driven by a need to begin with the familiar in order to find the edges of the unfamiliar: the savage and ridiculous, wayward and preposterous that make up the place where something—however small—has not already been captured and classified
Lucy Cash
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