Written question, clever answer, witty argument, subtle allusion, skillful objection, retort? intelligent?, sharp irony?, hyperbole? solid?, metaphor? stunning, impudent sincerity?, revolting nonsense, intentionally innocent or feigned mimicry? naivety or, in a word, humor. So versatile and multifaceted.
Cheerful, sarcastic, cunning , curmudgeon, benevolent, spiteful, mocking, disdainful, nervous, relieved, cynical, understanding, satisfied, lascivious, mistrustful, embarrassed , hysterical, compassionate, playful, shocked, aggressive or sardonic: all about laughter. An incoherent and explosive cry, on the border between culture? ?and nature?.
Radio, affected, insinuating, sly or silly. I mean? I smile. Like dance, also a language of the body, between harmony and hostility.
Bright ideas and intelligent jokes, a study in humor as form? slightly cynical? and subversive? of superiority over the others, from Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas to to Hobbes, Freud and Bahtin.
Innumerable studies dedicated to humor begin by admitting in shame that s? analyzing a joke? equate? with her murder. In fact, it is not true. It is true that, if? do you want to stop laughing, it's not wise to joke and simultaneously dissect the joke, just as they say that? some American presidents were unable to am i going Are they chewing their gum at the same time?
Do children smile almost immediately? what are born, but start to are you laughing? only in the third or fourth month, maybe because it is also necessary to train the mind.
For Freud, is the joke a scam? skilled? with two? face, servant to two masters. Do you have to? he bows to the authority of the superego and at the same time assiduously promotes the interests of the unconscious.
Author
The Master recognized comedian and one of the most brilliant minds of our time, Terry Eagleton is a British philosopher, critic and literary theorist. He was born in 1943, in Salford, Great Britain, in an Irish Catholic family. He studied at Trinity College and Jesus College, Cambridge. He started to he teaches at the University of Oxford and, as a visiting professor, at Cornell University, Duke University, Iowa University, Melbourne University, Yale University and Trinity College, Dublin. He holds the title of Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University. He is the author of over forty works on literary theory, postmodernism, politics, ideology and religion, which have had fantastic success all over the world.