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Free Download Antonio Calvo Maturana, "Spanish Laughter: Humor and Its Sense in Modern Spain "
English | ISBN: 1800734999 | 2022 | 390 pages | PDF | 13 MB
Presenting a cultural and interdisciplinary study of humor in Spain from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book examines how humour entered public life, how it attained a legitimacy to communicate ‘serious’ ideas in the Enlightenment and how this set the seed for the key position that humor occupies in society today. Through a range of case studies that run from Goya’s paintings, humor, and gender representations in radio programmes during the first Franco regime, developmentalist cinema of the sixties and seventies, to the transformation of female humor in social media, the book traces the core role that the comical has played in the public sphere. The contributors to this volume represent a wide range of disciplines including gender studies, humour studies and Hispanic studies and offer international perspectives on Spanish laughter.

Free Download The Cancer Finishing School: Lessons in Laughter, Love and Resilience by Peter Goldsworthy
English | March 5, 2024 | ISBN: 1761340778 | 336 pages | EPUB | 0.86 Mb
‘My first stray cancer is a gift. I’m lucky to have it. What priceless material for a doctor-writer.’What lessons might cancer teach him before it finishes him off? Peter Goldsworthy asks, obliquely. A GP of forty years’ practice, as well as one of Australia’s most awarded and celebrated writers, Goldsworthy (‘Doctor Pete’ to his patients) brings his characteristic black humour and storytelling power to the tale of his own cancer journey.Accidentally diagnosed after a scan of his dicky knee, he was thrown into a world that he knew only too well from the other a world that soon shrank to hospital visits, sleepless and hyped-up nights on dexamethasone and life-saving chemotherapy. Never one to waste a story, Peter intersperses his own experience with odd and astonishing case stories of patients and literary friends who have trodden the same both cautionary tales and exemplary tales, sometimes laugh-out-loud, sometimes deeply moving, that intersect with, or refract, his own travels through denial, acceptance, treatment and survival.Darkly funny, and filled with growing love and wonder, The Cancer Finishing School offers lessons in how to live life in the shadow of an incurable illness.

Free Download Gaby Pailer, Andreas Bohn, Stefan Horlacher, "Gender and Laughter: Comic Affirmation and Subversion in Traditional and Modern Media"
English | 2009 | pages: 393 | ISBN: 9042026723 | PDF | 2,6 mb
This essay collection is dedicated to intersections between gender theories and theories of laughter, humour, and comedy. It is based on the results of a three-year research programme, entitled "Gender – Laughter – Media" (2003-2006) and includes a series of investigations on traditional and modern media in western cultures from the 18th to the 20th century. A theoretical opening part is followed by four thematic sections that explore the multiple forms of irritating stereotypical gender perceptions; aspects of (post-)colonialism and multiculturalism; the comic impact of literary and media genres in different national cultures; as well as the different comic strategies in fictional, philosophical, artistic or real life communication. The volume presents a variety of new approaches to the overlaps between gender and laughter that have only barely been considered in groundbreaking research. It forms a valuable read for scholars of literary, theatre, media, and cultural studies, at the same time reaching out to a general readership.

Free Download V. Allen, "On Farting: Language and Laughter in the Middle Ages "
English | ISBN: 0230100392 | 2007 | 252 pages | EPUB | 689 KB
This book presents waste as an aesthetic category that introduces an arsy-versy world where detritus is precious. This aesthetic is applied in the second part to etymology, poking through the ‘paternal dungheaps’ of words, and tracing their origins not to Eden but to Babel, puns, and word play.

Free Download Delia Casadei, "Risible: Laughter without Reason and the Reproduction of Sound"
English | ISBN: 0520391330 | 2024 | 232 pages | PDF | 16 MB
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Free Download Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Film and Culture Series) by Maggie Hennefeld
English | March 19, 2024 | ISBN: 023121328X, 0231213298 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 11.5 MB
Can you really die from laughing too hard? Between 1870 and 1920, hundreds of women suffered such a fate―or so a slew of sensationalist obituaries would have us believe. How could laughter be fatal, and what do these reports of women’s risible deaths tell us about the politics of female joy?

Free Download Abílio Almeida, "A Cultural History of Laughter "
English | ISBN: 1032671335 | 2024 | 102 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Is laughter a sin? Or is it man’s best medicine? Is laughter now trivialised, mechanised or even weaponised by contemporary media? This book explores the social history of laughter in the West, from classical antiquity to the present day.

Free Download Mary Beard, Jennifer M. Dixon (Narrator), "Laughter in Ancient Rome: on Joking, Tickling, and Cracking Up"
English | ASIN: B0D1ZJ8HXR | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~11:08:00 | 306 MB
What made the Romans laugh? Was ancient Rome a carnival, filled with practical jokes and hearty chuckles? Or was it a carefully regulated culture in which the uncontrollable excess of laughter was a force to fear-a world of wit, irony, and knowing smiles? How did Romans make sense of laughter? What role did it play in the world of the law courts, the imperial palace, or the spectacles of the arena?
Laughter in Ancient Rome explores one of the most intriguing, but also trickiest, of historical subjects. Drawing on a wide range of Roman writing-from essays on rhetoric to a surviving Roman joke book-Mary Beard tracks down the giggles, smirks, and guffaws of the ancient Romans themselves. From ancient "monkey business" to the role of a chuckle in a culture of tyranny, she explores Roman humor from the hilarious, to the momentous, to the surprising. But she also reflects on even bigger historical questions. What kind of history of laughter can we possibly tell? Can we ever really "get" the Romans’ jokes?

Free Download City of Laughter: A Novel (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPH4K9T1 | 2024 | 13 hours and 40 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Temim Fruchter
Narrator: Mara Wilson
Ropshitz, Poland, was once known as the City of Laughter. As this story opens, an 18th century badchan, a holy jester whose job is to make wedding guests laugh, receives a visitation from a mysterious stranger-bringing the laughter the people of Ropshitz desperately need and triggering a sequence of events that will reverberate across the coming century. In the present day, Shiva Margolin, recovering from the heartbreak of her first big queer love and grieving the death of her beloved father, struggles to connect with her guarded mother, who spends most of her time at the local funeral home.

Free Download Jonathan C. Friedman, "Haunted Laughter: Representations of Adolf Hitler, the Third Reich, and the Holocaust in Comedic Film and Television"
English | ISBN: 1793640157 | 2022 | 240 pages | EPUB, PDF | 14 MB + 2 MB
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