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What are you laughing at?, a comprehensive guide to the comedic event, Dan O'Shannon

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What are you laughing at?, a comprehensive guide to the comedic event, Dan O'Shannon

Language

eng

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

What are you laughing at?

Oclc number

773666944

Responsibility statement

Dan O'Shannon

Sub title

a comprehensive guide to the comedic event

Summary

Presents an entirely new approach to comedy theory. It challenges long-held beliefs and shows how the three main theories of comedy (incongruity, superiority, and relief) are not in conflict; but rather, work as parts of a larger model

Table Of Contents

Overview : Common comedy theories ; The comedic event ; Documenting the comedic event -- pt. 1. Elements of context: the reception factors : The receiver and his world ; Elements of communication ; Vehicles ; Level of control and identifying the source -- pt. 2. Comedic information : Fundamental components ; Incongruity ; Cognitive process ; Variations ; Comedy and entropy -- pt. 3. Enhancers, inhibitors, and aspects of awareness : How comedic information triggers enhancers and inhibitors ; Elements of the joke's communication, structure, and content -- Summing it all up

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