Japanese Humour
Published on 18. June 1997
XI, 196 pages
978-0-230-39006-5 (ISBN)
Description
This is not a book of jokes. It is about how people make rules about humour: rules about what humour is, what it is not, what it should and should not be, when it should and should not be used, what type of humour is permissible and what type forbidden, what is good and bad about humour, what should be considered funny and what should not. The book offers a framework for a general understanding of why and how societies make rules about the use of humour, and how those rules affect patterns of communication and the development of humour and comedy.
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MARGUERITE WELLS
Content
Acknowledgements - Notes - The Rules of Humour - The Ethics of Humour - Early Japanese Ideas of Humour - Ideas of Humour in the Meiji Era - Ideas of Humour since the Meiji Era - Postscript - Notes - Bibliography - Glossary - Index
