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- Comic in General—The Comic Element in Forms and Movements—Expansive Force of the Comic". Laughter: an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic. Translated by Brereton...45 KB (5,310 words) - 06:30, 21 August 2024
- Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic is a collection of three essays by French philosopher Henri Bergson, first published in 1900. It was written...12 KB (1,822 words) - 13:58, 21 May 2024
- Bergson, Henri. Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, Chapter I (II) – online version on Project Gutenberg Bergson, Laughter, Chapter I (III)...59 KB (7,945 words) - 07:22, 12 July 2024
- Humorist (category Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes from March 2023)Bergson, Henri (1900). "The Comic Element in Situations and the Comic Element in Words". Laughter: an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic. Translated by Brereton...11 KB (1,176 words) - 13:42, 24 July 2024
- Henri Bergson (redirect from The Two Sources of Morality and Religion)finality in the world of life, it encompasses the whole of life in one indivisible embrace. In Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, Bergson develops...84 KB (10,154 words) - 17:07, 17 August 2024
- Comique ("Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic", 1900) and Les Deux Sources de la Morale et de la Religion ("The Two Sources of Morality and...11 KB (752 words) - 14:41, 28 March 2024
- Metaphysical aesthetics (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)pp. 1–14 & 128–138. Henri Bergson (1911). Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic. unknown library. The Macmillan company. Dewey, John (1929). Experience...17 KB (2,189 words) - 13:18, 26 June 2024
- Comedy (redirect from Sense of the comic)use the term laughter to refer to the whole gamut of the comic, in order to avoid the use of ambiguous and problematically defined genres such as the grotesque...36 KB (4,226 words) - 03:42, 18 July 2024
- Collective mental state (category Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link)are authentic results of the weakening of the social fabric. Bergson, Henri (1900). Laughter: an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic. Translated by Brereton...20 KB (2,800 words) - 23:26, 3 March 2024
- sur la signification du comique ("Laughter, an essay on the meaning of the comic"). Sigmund Freud: his 1905 book on jokes and unconscious has been translated...19 KB (2,655 words) - 19:10, 29 May 2024
- overcome a series of moral trials. These plays aimed to produce tears rather than laughter and reflected contemporary philosophical conceptions of humans as inherently...14 KB (1,831 words) - 17:49, 12 July 2024
- Tragicomedy (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)aspects of both tragic and comic forms. Most often seen in dramatic literature, the term can describe either a tragic play which contains enough comic elements...13 KB (1,586 words) - 06:06, 15 August 2024
- Stand-up comedy (redirect from Stand-up comic)met with laughter or disapproval, hinges on the audience's understanding of the premise and appreciation of the punchline. A seasoned comic is able to...26 KB (3,061 words) - 21:39, 1 August 2024
- conflicts with the nature of a comic, it can serve as an initial arena for an individual to realise their ability to produce laughter. This discovery...27 KB (3,430 words) - 18:41, 12 March 2024
- Joke (section Physiology of laughter)actions as well as on the verbal punchline to evoke laughter. This distinction has been formulated in the popular saying "A comic says funny things; a...81 KB (10,468 words) - 08:27, 2 August 2024
- Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays (Princeton University Press, 1957) is a book by Canadian literary critic and theorist Northrop Frye that attempts to...30 KB (3,843 words) - 00:02, 9 December 2023
- Absurdist fiction (category Pages using sidebar with the child parameter)"Theatre of the Absurd" in his 1960 essay Theatre of the Absurd. Esslin related these selected plays based on the broad theme of the absurd, similar to the way...26 KB (3,350 words) - 20:50, 21 August 2024
- Black comedy (redirect from Dark-comic)interpreting the writings of Jonathan Swift. Breton's preference was to identify some of Swift's writings as a subgenre of comedy and satire in which laughter arises...47 KB (5,472 words) - 23:02, 24 August 2024
- Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed. Humor writer Paul Jennings had published made-up meanings of real place-names in a 1963 essay appearing in The Jenguin...15 KB (1,638 words) - 06:27, 28 July 2024
- Laughter; an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic Henri Bergson, translated by Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell Translators' Preface by Cloudesley Brereton
- popular meaning (stand-up, along with any discourse generally intended to amuse), which differs from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre
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