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Verlag: Legacy Books Press, 2011
ISBN 10: 0978465229ISBN 13: 9780978465223
Anbieter: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, USA
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Zustand: Good. Ludtke, Laura E (illustrator). Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Verlag: Kingston: Legacy Books Press, 2007
ISBN 10: 0978465202ISBN 13: 9780978465209
Anbieter: Fundus-Online GbR Borkert Schwarz Zerfaß, Berlin, Deutschland
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Paperback. Zustand: Gut. Ludtke, Laura E. (illustrator). 234 p.: Ill. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - leicht bestoßen, Knick im Cover, Fußschnitt leicht verschmutzt, sonst sehr guter Zustand / slightly scuffed, crease in cover, bottom edge slightly soiled, otherwise very good condition. - Table of Contents Preface Part I: Funny Stuff Chapter I - What is Humour? The word "Humour" Humour and Laughter Humour and Aggression Chapter II - Why is it Funny? Humour and the Intellect Humour and Ignorance Humour, the Body and the Emotions Chapter III - A Funny World Humour and Society Humour Against Authority Modern Theories of Humour: Bringing it Together Chapter IV - The Earliest Humour Ancient Egyptian Humour Mesopotamian Humour Hebrew Humour Part II: Real Characters Chapter V - Eccentrics Looking for a Story Getting Something for Nothing How to be a Parasite When Flatterers turn Bad: the Clown Chapter VI - A Farmyard of Quacks The Quack Some Species of Quack: The Poseur, The Busybody and the Bully More Species of Quack: The Sycophant, the Gossip, and the Babbler Chapter VII - A Sucker for Every Occasion The Unwilling Victim The Egghead The Willing Victim Chapter VIII - Bursting the Bubble and Other Oddities 1 The Ironist Socrates The Loner, the Glutton, the Cannibal and the Cook Chapter IX - The Sexual Dimension The Slut The Scoffer, the Shrew, and the Tease The Adulterer and the Cuckold Part III: The Classical Way Chapter X - Epic Proportions Humour and the Iliad Humour and the Odyssey (and Battle of Frogs and Mice) The Cercopes and Satyr-Plays (especially Euripides' Cyclops) Chapter XI - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora. . . Old Comedy and Aristophanes' Clouds Aristophanes' Birds, Lysistrata, and Frogs Visual Representations Chapter XII - The Roman Wit Latin Verbal Humour and Petronius' Satyricon The Satyricon as Drama Encolpius' side-kicks: Trimalchio and Eumolpus Seneca's Apocolocyntosis Coda: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Longship Those Zany Barbarians Wordplay and Stupidity Victimization Conclusion Afterword A Note on Translations and Illustrations Works Cited Suggested Further Reading Index About the Authors. ISBN 9780978465209 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 360.