Laughter After : Humor and the Holocaust 9780814344798, 9780814344781

Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic 9781400872893

Although numerous scholars have studied Late Republican humor, this is the first book to examine its social and politica

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Authoritarian Laughter: Political Humor and Soviet Dystopia in Lithuania 9781501766701

Authoritarian Laughter explores the political history of the satire and humor magazine Broom published in Soviet Lithuan

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After the Holocaust 9781644696804

The chapters in this volume examine a few facets in the drama of how the survivors of the Holocaust contended with life

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Spanish Laughter: Humor and Its Sense in Modern Spain 9781800735002

Presenting a cultural and interdisciplinary study of humor in Spain from the eighteenth century to the present day, this

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Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Ancient Philosophy 9780190917616, 019091761X

Ancient philosophers considered question about laughter, humor, and comedy to be both philosophically interesting and im

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Understanding Laughter. The Workings of Wit & Humor 0882291866

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Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After 9781474403801

Explores the range and complexity of human emotions and their transmission across cultural traditions What makes us lau

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Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust 9780300255850

Told for the first time from their perspective, the story of children who survived the chaos and trauma of the Holocaust

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The Senses of Humor: Self and Laughter in Modern America 9780801454387

Why do modern Americans believe in something called a sense of humor and how did they come to that belief? Daniel Wickbe

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American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust 9780814753385

Many of us belong to communities that have been scarred by terrible calamities. And many of us come from families that h

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